Education Programs Director
Kate Lukaszewicz brings 20 years of education experience to Classrooms Without Borders. She is an expert in instructional and assessment design, teacher professional development, and facilitating civil discourse in classrooms. She is an alum of Literacy*AmeriCorps, where she taught GED skills at the Allegheny County Jail; an alum of Teach For America Baltimore City, where she taught for several years; and, most recently, Kate taught Civics at Sewickley Academy, where she was awarded the R.P. Simmons Family Chair for Excellence in Teaching and was a Sculley Sabbatical recipient. In 2019, Classrooms Without Borders awarded Kate’s lesson plan on October 27th first place in a contest for commemorative lesson plans. In 2021, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of America History recognized her as one of ten designers of innovative lesson plans based on the Gilder Lehrman Collection of primary sources. A perennial learner, Kate has earned graduate degrees in Government and Public History and is currently earning a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction. She has participated in five CWB study seminars and staffed two more, in addition to leading a three-part series on the work of Primo Levi. Above all, Kate brings faith that teachers are key to opening minds and hearts in the service of unabashedly pursuing social justice.