Deborah Eades
Deborah Eades is an English/Language Arts teacher currently teaching on-level sophomores and AP Language and Composition courses. She is also the sponsor of the Creative Writing Community Club. Her goal is to foster in her students an appreciation for the power of the written word in telling the story of America and a lifelong curiosity for expanding their worldview. In her capacity as a creative writing instructor, she has involved her students in the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program and encouraged them to practice out loud, in other words, to submit their work for feedback and/or publication. She holds a B.A. in secondary English education from Friends University and a Masters in English from Wichita State University. She is a recent participant in the Smithsonian Institute National Portrait Gallery’s Learning to Look Summer Teacher Institute. Her particular passion is American Literature. She is dedicated to keeping classics relevant and keeping kids reading them. She is a member of the Big Read Wichita Planning Committee, Kansas Association of Teachers of English, and the USD385 Continuous Learning Task Force. She lives in Kansas where she quotes Mark Twain during passing periods and writes YA lit on the weekends.