Director, Vallejo City USD Teacher Residency at Alder GSE
krice@vcusd.org

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Katrina Traylor Rice is a National Board Certified Teacher with over 15 years of teaching experience in urban secondary classrooms. She began her teaching career at June Jordan School for Equity, in San Francisco, where she also worked as an administrator. Katrina then worked at her former high school, Jesse M. Bethel High School, in Vallejo, where she spent eight years as the Lead Teacher of the Law Academy. Under her leadership, the Law Academy earned the Diversity Champion Award from California LAW. Katrina also worked as Alder’s Whole Child Initiative Manager, organizing many of the core components of Alder’s approach to whole child teaching and learning.

Katrina has taught high school English and history at all grade levels and loves teaching students to be engaged readers of history, literature, and the world around them. Katrina is deeply passionate about creating healing-centered classrooms through trauma-informed care practices including restorative justice, mindfulness, and culturally relevant curriculum.

Katrina holds a BA from UC Santa Cruz in American Studies, an MA in Education from Stanford’s Teacher Education Program, and is completing her EdD at UC Davis where she researched how Black students define and experience joy within the context of school. When she’s not shaking things up in the world of education, she can be found reading historical fiction, conquering Beyonce’s dance moves, or delighting at the world with her four young children.