PROFILE
Catherine Davis Hayes
Rhode Island State Teacher of the Year, 2007

Biography
Catherine Davis Hayes, 2007 RI State Teacher of the Year, has been teaching visual art and design to students K-12 for over 20 years and currently teaches at Oakland Beach Elementary School in Warwick, RI and is the Coordinator of the Young Artist Program at the Rhode Island School of Design. Davis Hayes has focused her professional teaching around creating arts-infused communities of learning where students can demonstrate knowledge and understanding of core content in and through the performing and visual arts. She serves as a mentor for staff in her school and has led professional development for teachers in several states including RI, MA, NH, and OH.
Member of NNSTOY
We are a network of State Teachers of the Year and Finalists who use our teacher leadership to ensure that every student receives an outstanding education. We do this through our focus on practice, policy and advocacy.
We Believe...- Every student has a right to a high-quality education, regardless of background, race, gender, disability or socio-economic status.
- To achieve educational excellence for all students, we must transform and support the teaching profession.
- It is imperative that we involve our nation’s expert teachers in conversations about improving education.
- Teacher leaders will transform the teaching profession and create, implement and sustain systems to solve our toughest educational challenges.
- We must prepare our country’s future workforce to be competitive in a global economy and participate in a diverse, democratic country.
- Educators must partner with families and communities on behalf of our nation’s children.
Videos of Practice

Establishing your classroom as an arts-infused learning environment to encourage students to demonstrate their understanding of core academic content.
with Catherine Davis Hayes
Establishing your classroom as an arts-infused learning environment to encourage students to demonstrate their understanding of core academic content.
Grades K-2, Grades 3-5