Dr. Kate Greenway
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
by Carolynne Bull, Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Dr. Kate Greenway has virtually spent a lifetime in the classroom, both teaching and learning. Having recently received her PhD in Education from York University while providing a personalized learning experience for HTS students for over 24 years, Kate is the embodiment of leading in learning. Kate received her Master’s in Education in 2009. Her thesis, tracing the history of an artifact she encountered at the Holocaust Memorial Museum during an HTS Breakaway Trip, received the award for best graduating major research paper. “I am interested in how we tell stories, whose stories get told, and how they are received,” Kate says. “In my PhD my focus was the portrayal of adoption in arts and culture, with implications about the stories all learners bring to their experience that often go unnoticed or untold.” After seven years of independent study, Kate defended her non-traditional, multimodal dissertation this past March, utilizing self-study, memoir, creative non-fiction and artmaking to push the boundaries of why and how research is used, as well as how information is presented.
Day that is now a rite of passage for senior drama students. In her Core program (a forerunner of our current Breakaway Trips), Grade 9 students bonded on education-related class trips. She brought us the Fringe Festival, modelled on famous festivals in Edinburgh and Toronto, now an annual end-of year event in the Senior School. And, of course, every year she can be found co-directing and producing the school play, a near-professional calibre endeavour that stretches the talent and imagination of students and staff alike. Kate notes, “I have been taking university courses virtually all of my adult life. I love learning and do believe in lifelong education. I wonder what my next academic journey will be.” HTS is pleased to tell Kate’s continuing education story, and we are honoured to have our Senior School students grow and learn from such a forward-thinking and caring instructional leader. Congratulations, Dr. Greenway!
In the classroom, Kate allows her students’ interests to guide her courses, which include Studies in Literature, Writer’s Craft, English and Drama. Student voices are heard and their opinions honoured as they share their understanding and ideas around issues that are most relevant in their lives. They are co-designers in every aspect of learning.
I HAVE BEEN TAKING UNIVERSITY COURSES VIRTUALLY ALL OF MY ADULT LIFE. I LOVE LEARNING AND DO BELIEVE IN LIFELONG EDUCATION.
During her tenure at HTS, Kate has been an innovator outside of the classroom as well. In her first year, she piloted a student-written project for Remembrance
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