Kathleen Norton is a 2026-2027 Teach Plus California Emergent Bilingual Change Agent and high school English Language Development (ELD) teacher in the newcomer pathway at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco. She serves as a Union Building Committee representative. Kathleen previously taught adult equivalency students in Memphis, Tennessee and high school English in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She began her education career as a City Year Detroit corps member (2015–2016) and completed a fellowship with the Mississippi Teacher Corps. Kathleen earned a BA in communications from the University of Pennsylvania and MA in teaching from the University of Mississippi.
