KATY TESSMAN
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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. 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.

As a devoted literacy champion, Katy directed the summer reading program, Book Buddies, at Gatewood Elementary for six years. Katy is a blog content curator and regularly contributes to MackinCommunity.com authoring blog articles of thoughtfully curated content about newly published books.

With a BA from Minnesota State University–Moorhead, Katy combines her professional communications experience and diverse educator background as she teams with teachers, librarians, and principals look to the future and create new libraries across the country.
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READ KATY'S BLOG ARTICLE: 
​Building a Diverse Book Collection: Providing Windows, Mirrors, Sliding Glass Doors, and Beyond

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Book Groups
Katy has led several book groups. Some titles include "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" by Rick Roirdan, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling, and "Piecing Me Together" by Renee Watson.
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Some of the activities she led in the book group for "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda" by Tom Angleberger are:
  • Read the first two chapters of the book, watch a short video on YouTube of Yoda's words of wisdom from the Star Wars movies, and eat Cheetos.
  • ​Make origami fortune tellers, with words of wisdom from Yoda inside.
  • Read the chapter about Shakespeare's head; discuss the similarities between the author from long ago and the fictional futuristic character. Each student used a tub of play-doh to sculpt their very own bust of William or Yoda (their choice).
  • Try dancing "The Twist."
  • Make the 5-fold origami Yoda.
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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Contact / EPK
  • SINGER-SONGWRITER
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    • HISTORY
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    • Performance Archive >
      • Special Event - Fundraiser for Angel Foundation Oct 20, 2022
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  • AUTHOR
    • ABOUT the Author >
      • Book Signing Events
      • Author News
    • ABOUT "Hero Now Crowned" >
      • Pre-Order HERO NOW CROWNED book
    • ABOUT "Our Mama is a Beautiful Garden" >
      • Acknowledgements
      • Haikus
      • Sponsor the Book
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  • MORE
    • Hero Now Crowned
    • BLOG
    • SURVIVOR
    • READER >
      • Book Buddies
      • Building a Diverse Book Collection
    • MAKER >
      • Makerspace in the Media Center