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Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis

Biography

Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis

Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is the founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Classes 4 Classes, Inc., and an inspirational speaker for teachers and organizations across the country. Previously, she was a first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Roig-DeBellis contributes to a biweekly educational blog for The Huffington Post and has been honored as a Glamour magazine Woman of the Year and a L’Oréal Paris Woman of Worth. In 2013 she received two honorary doctorates, and the Dedicated Teacher Award from the Chicago International Conference on Education.

Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis

Books by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis

by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis with Robin Gaby Fisher - Nonfiction

Kaitlin Roig-Debellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of 15 six- and-seven-year-olds from the tragic events that took place on December 14, 2012, by piling them into a single-occupancy bathroom within her classroom, mere feet from the brutal and indiscriminate massacre taking place outside the door. Since then, despite the unimaginably painful experiences she endured, she has chosen to share her experience with others, in the hope that they too can find light in dark moments.