Katie Hayes is a 2025-2026 Teach Plus Mississippi Senior Policy Fellow and K-5 interventionist at Barack H. Obama Magnet Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi. She also serves as the new teacher mentor. Katie has taught various grades preK-5, and has been a grade-level lead teacher, Literacy Committee Chair, and English language arts coach, among other roles. She was named in the top eight for the Kuwait Association for Learning Differences Distinguished Teachers Award for private schools in Kuwait (2013-2014) and was recognized as Obama Magnet Elementary’s Teacher of the Year (2023-2024). Katie is National Board Certified and serves as a candidate support mentor for the SEED project. She earned her BS in early childhood education from the University of the Ozarks and MEd in educational leadership from The American College of Education, which led to an administrative credential in Mississippi.
