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Kathleen A. Torregrossa

Secretary
Local Site Coordinator

Educational Issues Chairperson

Kathy was a First Grade teacher at Hope Highlands, Garden City, Woodridge, and Stadium Elementary Schools, but after 32 years teaching she assumed the role of Coordinator of Teacher Evaluation, Professional Learning, and Mentor Programs.  She has had AFT ER&D training in Delivering Effective Professional Development, Beginning Reading, Thinking Math I & II, Making Classroom Data Work For You, and Foundations I. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees at Rhode Island College and her C.A.G.S. and Doctorate from JWU.  She lives in Cranston.

Kathleen Torregrossa
1331 Hope Road
Hope, Rhode Island  02831
kat97teach@aol.com

Education:

• 2015, Ed.D, Johnson & Wales University
  
• 2014, C.A.G.S.  Johnson & Wales University
  
• 1983, M.Ed. Special Education, Rhode Island College
  
• 1981, BS Elementary and Special Education, Rhode Island College
  
• 30 credits at various universities in the areas of beginning reading, mathematics, and technology (URI, University of Oregon, Canter Associates)
  
• National Board Certified Teacher, Reading: Early/Middle Child: Literacy/Language Arts, November 2007, October 2017
  
• Highlander Fuse Fellow, Cohort 5 (2018-2020)
  

Teaching Experience:

• CPS - Coordinator for Teacher Evaluation and Professional Development (2014 to present)
  
• CPS - First Grade Teacher (1998 - 2014)
  
• CPS - District Reading Trainer for I-READ Program (All K – 3 teachers)
  
• CPS - Special Education Teacher (1988 -1998)
  
• Trudeau Center - Special Education Teacher (1983-1988)
  

Other Teaching Experience:

• Johnson and Wales Adjunct Professor, Graduate Level Course – Best Practices in Teaching Reading (2015 - present)
  
• URI/Rhode Island Federation of Teachers Adjunct Professor, Graduate Level Course – Beginning Reading Instruction (2001-2010)
  

Union Experience:

• Cranston Teachers’ Alliance Recording Secretary, (9/2010 to present)
  
• Cranston Teachers’ Alliance (CTA) Executive Board (1992 – Present)
  
• CTA Affiliations Chair, (1998 – 2018)
  
• CTA Educational Issues Chair, (6/2007 to Present)
  
• CTA Educational Issues Co-Chair, (2001 – 6/2007)
  
• CTA, Local Site Coordinator for E.R.&D. Professional Development Program (2007 - present)
  
• Providence Central Federated Labor Council Executive Board/Trustee (January 2005 – Present)
  
• CTA Delegate to Providence Central Federated Labor Council (1998 – Present)
  
• CTA/District Mentor to New Teachers
  

AFT Educational Research and Development Trainer for:

• Data: Making Classroom Assessment Work For You - for CTA and RIFTHP (7/2010-)
  
• Beginning Reading Instruction for CTA, RIFTHP/URI (2004 to present)
  
• Foundations I for CTA (2003 – Present)
  
• Thinking Math II for CTA (1998 – Present)
  
• Thinking Math I for CTA, RIFTHP (1997 – Present)
  
• Early Reading Intervention for CTA and RIFTHP (1994 – Present)                                                                                                                
  

CTA Representative on various committees:

• I3 Coordinator (RIFTHP/CTA/CPS) (2014 - Present)
  
• Innovation Grant – Teacher Evaluation Design Team (2010 – Present)
  
• RIFTHP QuEST Committee (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011)
  
• Political Action Committee (1996 - present)
  
• Cranston’s 504 Committee (1993 – 2012)
  
• Cranston’s Model for Training Committee (93 – 95)
  
• Jamboree Committee (1991)
  
• Special Education Parent Advisory Board (1992-1998)
  
• RIFTHP Innovation Evaluation System Trained Peer Evaluator (2012)
  
• CTA Building Delegate, Woodridge, (1991-1992)
  
• CTA Representative to AFT National Bi-Annual Convention (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
  
• RIFTHP Rallies at the Statehouse, Providence City Hall, Cranston City Hall
  
• CTA Speaker on various issues at the Statehouse, RIDE, School Committee, City Council
  
• AFT Rallies in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Washington, D.C.
  

Organizations:   

• Cranston Teachers’ Alliance (CTA)
  
• International Reading Association (IRA)
  
• President, Rhode Island State Council of the International Reading Association (2008-2015)
  
• New England Reading Association (NERA)
  
• National Council of the Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
  
• Association for the Supervision of Curriculum Development (ASCD)
  
• National Board Certified Teacher Mentor (2009–Present)