Katina Johnson, M.Ed.

Katina Johnson is a 25-year veteran teacher in Toledo Public Schools and currently serves as a K-3 intervention assessment teacher. She spent the first half of her career as a primary teacher, with over a decade of teaching in kindergarten and first grades. She also spent five years as a reading coach. Katina has been an American Federation of Teachers-trained facilitator for Foundations 1 - Organizing the Classroom for Teaching and Learning for over a decade, delivering professional development to veteran and second-year teachers who are new to the district, and she currently serves as an AFT-national trainer for Beginning Reading Instruction. Katina’s reading background is rooted in AFT research and Orton-Gillingham comprehensive training, and includes a pre-K-12 reading endorsement in the state of Ohio and some training in AFT’s Reading Comprehension Instruction course. She earned her bachelors and master's degrees in early childhood/elementary education from the University of Toledo. Katina brings her passion for teaching and learning into the classroom with her each day. She enjoys helping her students overcome their reading struggles and watching them blossom into readers. She regularly volunteers with Read for Literacy’s annual Claire’s Day book festival and is the building coordinator for the author/illustrator visits to her school. Katina is married to Daniel and they have three young-adult daughters.