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Katy Tessman - Professional Portfolio

With a BA from Minnesota State University–Moorhead, Katy Tessman has a vast professional communications experience and diverse educator background. Following are a few highlights from her professional accomplishments.

Project Manager

From building relevant and diverse book collections that provide windows and mirrors for students to creating Makerspaces in media centers giving an outlet for students, fueling engagement, creativity, and curiosity at the same time, Katy assists school media specialists across the country, look to the future by helping create new media centers managing budgets of $20,000-$300,000+.
  • craft results-driven proposals
  • collaborate with sales representatives on new customer meetings to build rapport
  • manage projects through to completion, including; cataloging and processing titles, packaging, scheduling delivery, and coordinating shelving of new collections

Literacy Champion

Katy is passionate about helping schools transform their libraries to be future-ready media centers. Katy loves building relevant and diverse book collections for schools to provide windows and mirrors for students. ​

As a devoted literacy champion, Katy directed the summer reading program, Book Buddies, at Gatewood Elementary for six years. 
Building a Diverse Book Collection
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Supporting Adolescent Striving Readers with Engaging Texts
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Writer

Katy Tessman is a blog content curator and regularly contributes to MackinCommunity.com authoring research-based industry articles and thoughtfully curated content about newly published books. 
5 Benefits of Reading Picture Books Aloud to Secondary Students
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Books - Help Guide Convos about Race, Racism, and Antiracism
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Partnering Fiction & NonFiction in Classroom Libraries
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3 Important Steps in Creating Interesting Book Talks
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Katy's article "Glimpses int a Better Understanding of the Human Experience Through New Poetry Books" was the most read blog article in 2022.

Professional Development Educator

Katy Tessman leads Professional Learning workshops and webinars for educators, presenting educational trends throughout the nation.
  • "Maker-spacing Your Distance Learning" webinar for Mackin Professional Learning
  • "Literacy and Making : Transforming your Workshop into a Makerspace" professional learning workshop at TIES Conference
  • Maker Education hands-on ​workshop at Best Prep, Minnesota Technology Integration Workshop.
  • Maker Education hands-on workshop for librarians at Arrowhead Library System, Minnesota

Public School Educator

Making and tinkering are powerful and empowering ways to learn. Katy coordinated the first MakerSpace in the Media Center at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School. Katy believes in the importance of providing an outlet for students to fuel engagement, creativity, and curiosity.
5 Factors When Offering MakerSpace Experiences in the Media Center
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Author

Katy is a self published author of two picture books: 
  • Our Mama is a Beautiful Garden: A family's breast cancer journey as told through the innocent and sweet voices of two young brothers. 
  • Hero Now Crowned: A magical reimagining of Katy Tessman’s song Hero Now Crowned.

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Contact / EPK
  • SINGER-SONGWRITER
    • PRESS
    • HISTORY
  • SHOWS
    • Performance Archive >
      • Special Event - Fundraiser for Angel Foundation Oct 20, 2022
  • MUSIC
  • AUTHOR
    • ABOUT the Author >
      • Book Signing Events
      • Author News
    • ABOUT "Hero Now Crowned"
    • ABOUT "Our Mama is a Beautiful Garden" >
      • Acknowledgements
      • Haikus
      • Sponsor the Book
  • STORE
  • MORE
    • Hero Now Crowned
    • BLOG
    • SURVIVOR
    • READER >
      • Book Buddies
      • Building a Diverse Book Collection
    • MAKER >
      • Makerspace in the Media Center