Past Inductees

Patricia Broderick
Co-Founder, Vice President/Editorial Director
Teaching PreK-8
2006

Although born in Norfolk, Virginia, Pat moved at the age of three months to God's country and has been a Connecticut resident ever since. She graduated from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT, with a major in English. She also earned a master's degree in Special Education from Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT.

Pat is co-founder and Vice President/Editorial Director of Teaching K-8 magazine, a 35-year old classroom service magazine for the elementary school teacher, grades K through eight.

Pat's 51 working years have been spent in teaching or working for teachers (i.e: publishing educational handbooks and magazines). She has organized and conducted workshops for teachers at locations throughout the United States, and also taught adults to read as part of her job in the personnel department of a Connecticut foundry. Through the years she has also worked with children and non-English speaking adult immigrants, teaching reading on a volunteer basis. For over 12 years Pat has also served on the advisory board of the Basic School Network, founded by the late Dr. Ernest R. Boyer.

Pat has presented at several writing workshops at colleges, school districts and educational organizations and, for the last 20 years, has been on the faculty of the annual Highlights Foundation Writer's Workshop, held each July in Chautauqua, NY.

She is active in her church and for several years taught CCD, grades one and two, followed by a long stint working in the diocesan-sponsored soup kitchen.