Katie Viernum is a 2022-2023 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Policy Fellow and a lead teacher at Loyola University Preschool in Chicago. With more than 14 years of teaching experience, she has focused on building relationships with families while creating and implementing developmentally appropriate, play-based curriculum units. She earned her BS in psychology at Loyola University Chicago and an MEd in Instructional Leadership: Early Childhood Education with an EC Special Education approval from University of Illinois Chicago.
