Karen Whitney
Library Media Center Director
Rutherford B. Hayes High School
http://www.dcs.K12.oh.us/hayeshs/site/default.asp
Karen Whitney has been a teacher for 28 years. She taught elementary school and middle school in Big Walnut Schools in Sunbury, Ohio for the first ten years. For the past eighteen years, she taught middle school language arts, high school journalism and humanities, and is currently the library director at Rutherford B. Hayes High School in Delaware, Ohio. Karen received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at The Ohio State University. Since then, Karen has taken many additional hours of graduate work in reading instruction, English, information literacy, and library science. This past year, Karen published an article for the Ohio Resource Center web site, and continues conducting professional development at the local, state, and national level. Karen is an active member of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Ohio Educational Library Media Association, and the Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts. Karen contributed to the High School Life Science Room.