Meet Our Dedicated Team Members
Kate Pattee
Kathleen Pattee is a teacher, student, wife and mother of 2 young men. She earned her first degree from Saint Mary of -the -Woods College and after graduation taught elementary education in Florida for 8 years. After returning to Indiana, she continued her education career in Logansport, her hometown. Having a son with special needs prompted further studies in: Minds in Motion, Trauma, and acquiring a Neuroscience in Education Certificate from Butler University.
In 2021, she stepped out of teaching and now works part time for Youth Serve Alliance, teaching the WAIT framework, as well as running her own business, The Deepest Well. Here she teaches Tension Stress and Trauma Release Exercises or TRE. This helps to relax and calm the central nervous system. She helps parents with learn about Minds-in-Motion and educates parents on how and why it rewires and grows the brain for their children. In 2023, she became a certified Community Health Care Worker, linking people with the help and services they need to feel better.
Christine Hess
A retired educator, Chris spent 38 wonderful years as a teacher and principal. She graduated from Indiana University with her Bachelor’s degree in Special Education, got her Master’s in Special Education from IU South Bend, and her Principal’s Licensure Program at Indiana Wesleyan University. Her first 9 years were spent teaching in Warsaw, then in Logansport at Fairview West and Landis Elementary. She spent 10 years at Lincoln Middle School as a Behavioral Advisor, 1 year at the Administration Office as Title I Director, then was Principal at Fairview Elementary for 18 years. Throughout her career, she was very involved with helping create the award winning after- school R.O.P.E.S. program at Lincoln Middle School, starting the Logansport Backpack Food initiative, and helped Fairview become a No Excuses University School for 10 years. In Sept. 2023, she was awarded Indiana Outstanding Educator Award from the Indiana School Board Association. She was retired for approx. 9 weeks, then came back to work part time for Logansport Community School Corporation as the Workplace Coordinator. She was also President of PEAK Community Services Board for several years, served on the United Way Speakers Bureau, serves on the Cass County Community Foundation’s Grant Committee, and plays in her church’s Bell Choir and Choir. She is married to Milt and has 2 children, Hayley (Rob), and Tanner (Calle) and her first grandson, Griffin, who was born in July 2024.