Kathie Steele has now added 2004 Alaska State Teacher of the Year to her list of achievements, which include 2001 Chugiak High School Teacher of the Year, being listed in the Who's Who among America's Teachers in 1999 and 2002, recipient of the Veteran's of Foreign War outstanding teacher award in 2002 and being nominated for the BP Teacher of Excellence award in 1998. An English and reading teacher at Chugiak High School, Steele believes that involvement and working for community betterment is critical to her students' learning success. As an example for volunteerism, Steele spends her time tutoring, guest teaching, serving on the parent board at her neighborhood elementary school, and participating annually in "Women's Run and Ski for Women." While active in her community, Steele is still an English teach as advocate for state-wide literacy as an eight-year member of both the Cook Inlet Literary Council and Alaska State Literary Association and has belonged to the National Council of Teachers of English since 1995.
Kathie Steele has now added 2004 Alaska State Teacher of the Year to her list of achievements, which include 2001 Chugiak High School Teacher of the Year, being listed in the Who's Who among America's Teachers in 1999 and 2002, recipient of the Veteran's of Foreign War outstanding teacher award in 2002 and being nominated for the BP Teacher of Excellence award in 1998. An English and reading teacher at Chugiak High School, Steele believes that involvement and working for community betterment is critical to her students' learning success. As an example for volunteerism, Steele spends her time tutoring, guest teaching, serving on the parent board at her neighborhood elementary school, and participating annually in "Women's Run and Ski for Women." While active in her community, Steele is still an English teach as advocate for state-wide literacy as an eight-year member of both the Cook Inlet Literary Council and Alaska State Literary Association and has belonged to the National Council of Teachers of English since 1995.