Ms. Rotchford's Classes

Ms. Rotchford's Biography: Katie has been teaching English/Language Arts in Idaho since 2006.  She is also the instructor/advisor of the Hope Squad at Boise High, a student led program and class designed to promote mental health awareness, self-care, and suicide prevention. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and the National Journalism Education Association. She was the adviser to the Boise Highlights student newspaper for 13 years. She was a co-founder of the student-lead Writing Center at Mountain View High School in Meridian, Idaho and the Writing Assistance Center in Boise, Idaho where she served as its adviser for 12 years. Katie pursued her undergraduate education at Western Washington University and her graduate degree at the College of Idaho. Additionally, she is a Boise State Writing Project Fellow, a member of the National Writing Project, and the Idaho Coaching Network.  

In her personal life, Katie is all about adventure and experience. She is an avid outdoors woman (hiking, skiing, mountain biking, rafting, camping, fly fishing, etc.). Generally, if it can be done outdoors, she is interested. She is also an avid traveler (some of her more memorable experiences include being stocked by cockroaches in Guatemala and being urinated on by the cheetah, pictured below, in Botswana). She has been to 4 continents and hopes to get to the others. She is a wife, a mom to a 8 and a half year old adrenaline junkie, baseball player and Minecraft enthusiast, and also to two fluffy dogs, and she kicks butt at fantasy football. In other words, she is a true renaissance woman. 

You may contact Katie anytime through her email: katie.rotchfordhopkins@boiseschools.org