[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Selected Publications
Celebrating Community Coalitions, Ohio Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Prevention and Promotion — https://preventioncoe.ohio.gov/learn-and-grow/center-blog/188-july-2023
Evidence for Education: Effective Math Instruction, National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY), AED — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NICHCY_EE_Math-3.pdf
Evidence for Education: Social Skills and Academic Achievement, National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY), AED — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/EvidenceforEducationSocialSkills.pdf
Feeding the Good Wolf: A Gratitude Conversation with Ferial Pearson. A conversation originally published on Grateful Living. — https://katiesteedlycurling.substack.com/p/feeding-the-good-wolf-a-gratitude?r=bgla3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Getting to Cleveland: A Gratitude Conversation with Seth Godin. A conversation originally published on Grateful Living.— https://katiesteedlycurling.substack.com/p/getting-to-cleveland-a-conversation?r=bgla3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Health Equity as Community Commitment, Ohio Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Prevention and Promotion— https://preventioncoe.ohio.gov/learn-and-grow/center-blog/194-february-2023
”Inclusive Arts and Culture” in Inclusive Recreation: Programs and Services for Diverse Populations, Human Kinetics Publishing — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/InclusiveArtsChapter.pdf
Learning Labs: The Science of Goo, Blue Man Group — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BMG_LessonLab_ScienceofGoo.pdf
Learning Labs: The Dance of the Group Member and the Trickster, Blue Man Group — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/BMG_LessonLab_GroupAndTrickster.pdf
Learning Labs: Inventing an Instrument, Blue Man Group — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/BMG_LessonLab_InventingAnInstrument-2.pdf
Livin Wide-Awakeness: High School Drama Teachers Creating Powerful Encounters with the Arts — Ph.D. Dissertationhttps://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/KSCDissertation-1.pdf
Gratitude and Story: On Telling the Stories We Have Inside (originally published on Grateful Living — https://katiesteedlycurling.substack.com/p/gratitude-and-story?r=bgla3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Rubrics and an Arts Integration Community of Practice, Teaching Exceptional Children — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TEC-Article-2006-1.pdf
Seeking Awe in Ireland, City Lifestyle — https://katiesteedlycurling.substack.com/p/hustle-and-awe-in-ireland?r=bgla3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
The Outcomes of Inclusive Arts Education, VSA arts, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cs_issue_winter05-1.pdf
The Stage Is On Fire, Independently Published Memoir — https://www.amazon.com/Stage-Fire-Katie-Steedly/dp/0985112115
The Unspeakable Gift, Washingtonian — https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/08/06/the-unspeakable-gift/
What I learned about gratitude teaching writing in a federal prison, Elephant Journal — https://www.elephantjournal.cohttps://www.washingtonian.com/2013/08/06/the-unspeakable-gift/m/2021/01/how-federal-prisoners-schooled-me-on-the-meaning-of-gratitude/
Wonder, Grateful Living — https://grateful.org/resource/wonder/
Why Music, Caramoor — https://www.katiesteedly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WhyMusic.pdf
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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