{"id":875,"date":"2021-09-17T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/?p=875"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:58:14","slug":"kathryn-rosensteele-flores-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/2021\/09\/17\/kathryn-rosensteele-flores-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathryn (Rosensteele) Flores \u201903"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathryn (Rosensteele) Flores \u201903<\/strong> of Chicago died July 21, 2021. She was 40. Katie earned a bachelor\u2019s degree at Illinois Wesleyan and a master\u2019s degree from National Louis University. She dedicated her career to education. She first demonstrated her ability to touch the lives of students, faculty and administrators during eight years of teaching kindergarten in Chicago Public Schools. As part of her work experience, she traveled to Ghana for a cultural exchange program. Katie later moved on to the University of Chicago\u2019s STEM education team, where she served as school support manager and curriculum developer. Most recently, she helped develop mathematics textbooks and provided long-term coaching support for elementary math teachers. Katie played an instrumental role in the team\u2019s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, and served on its \u201cFabulous Fun\u201d Committee. She was active in many community organizations, including the McKinley Park (Ill.) advisory and development councils, and McKinley Community Play Garden. But the roles she cherished most were loving wife and adoring mother. She is survived by her husband <strong>James Flores \u201902<\/strong>, two children, her parents and a brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn (Rosensteele) Flores \u201903 of Chicago died July 21, 2021. She was 40. Katie earned a bachelor\u2019s degree at Illinois Wesleyan and a master\u2019s degree from National Louis University. She dedicated her career to education. She first demonstrated her ability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/2021\/09\/17\/kathryn-rosensteele-flores-03\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2003classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}