Katy Connolly is RQI’s education program coordinator. She designs content for the program’s professional development offerings and manages RQI’s archive of educational resources. She also coordinates RQI’s collaborative partnerships with teachers and educational organizations to ensure that all programmatic work authentically represents and is shaped by the experiences of educators.
Katy manages RQI’s grant-funded projects with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program. From 2019-2022, Katy played a key role developing a suite of online resources and professional learning modules that directly trained more than 2,000 educators nationally on how to infuse student questioning into primary source learning. She has presented to educators across the country, including to the National Council of History Education, National Council of Social Studies, National Science Teachers Association, the University of Notre Dame, and the Maine Department of Education — often speaking about how to incorporate inquiry learning and question formulation across academic disciplines and age groups.
Katy graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in English education, where she spent most of her time teaching and tutoring high school students. With her background in education, she has always been passionate about collaborating with educators to design pedagogy and classroom environments that allow students to drive their own learning.