About: Catherine Dorian

Catherine Dorian lived and taught in rural Montana for four years, where she embraced writing as a means of finding connection in an isolated setting. She has published several academic articles about English education and presented at state and national conferences. A native of Massachusetts and the Adirondacks, Catherine recently taught at Brattleboro Union High School in Vermont where she served on the school’s literary magazine, The Dial. She is a degree candidate in the ALM program in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard University. Some of her unfinished work is available at writingrural.com.

Recent Posts by Catherine Dorian

How to Streamline Curriculum: 5 Questions to Guide What to Cut or Keep

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Streamlining curriculum means deciding what to keep, cut, or combine so instruction matches the time you actually have, not the content available to cover. The clearest way to do it is to run each unit through a short set of questions about student choice, skill overlap, and what students walk away with. [xyz_feat_school] Like many…
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