Portrait of Cassie Ann Polasek

Cassie Ann Polasek

  • Asst Professor of Instruction at English, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Co-Req Curriculum Development. 2025 - Present.
  • Chair, Reading Task Force. 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Teacher Preparation Committee. 2022 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Scholastic Writing Awards. January 2017 - Present.
  • Volunteer, At-Large Booster Member Miller Middle School Dance Team Non-Profit 501c3. August 2025 - Present.
  • Officer, San Marcos High School Boys Soccer Booster Non-Profit 501c3. August 2025 - Present.
  • University Mentor, Faculty Advisor Changing Health Attitudes + Actions to Recreate Girls (CHAARG) Local Chapter. November 2024 - Present.
  • Member, First Year English Committee. 2022 - Present.
  • Volunteer, Miller Middle School Parent Teacher Organizaiton (PTO) Non-Profit 501c3. 2022 - Present.
  • Clinical Student Teaching Supervisor, Work Release EDST 4681 Sections. January 2022 - Present.
  • Teacher Consultant, Central Texas Writing Project. 2017 - Present.
  • Member, Kappa Delta Pi - Education Honors Society. 2012 - Present.
  • Member, Cormac McCarthy Society. 2008 - Present.
  • Member, Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society. 2002 - Present.
  • Member, Phi Sigma Tau - Philosophy Honors Society. 2001 - Present.
  • Member, Pi Delta Phi - French Honors Society. 2000 - Present.

2025

  • Reviewer / Referee, Research Study Advanced Placement Program English Langague and Composition and English Literature and Composition. 2025.
  • Volunteer, Grant Writer - Parents on Patrol - Miller Middle School. 2024 - 2025.
  • Participant, Co-Presenter Faculty Workshop Co-Req Curriculum Development. July 2025 - September 2025.
  • Officer, Miller Middle School PTO Non-Profit 501c3. August 2023 - August 2025.
  • Participant, First Year English Textbook Review Focus Group. May 2025.
  • Participant, FYE Textbook Review Focus Group. May 2025.

2024

  • Member, Communities of Practice. 2023 - 2024.
  • Officer, Fundraising Committee First Class Dance Center. August 2023 - 2024.
  • Volunteer, PTO - Crockett Elementary School Non-Profit 501c3. 2022 - 2024.

2023

  • Member, Campus Improvement Team Miller Middle School - Parent Representative. 2022 - 2023.
  • Participant, Hiring Committee - Senior Lecturer / Student Teacher Supervisor. 2022 - 2023.
  • Volunteer, Curriculum Development: San Marcos High School AP English Program. 2022 - 2023.
  • Participant, Paired Sections Lunch and Learn Workshop. November 10, 2023.
  • Speaker, Cormac McCarthy Society's Special Symposium on The Passenger and Stella Maris. September 2023.
  • Participant, Textbook Review Subcommittee. February 2023 - May 2023.

2022

  • Attendee / Participant, National Council of Teachers of English. 2021 - 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, US Irvine Pathways Project (U.S. Deptarment of Education Grant). 2021 - 2022.

2017

  • Attendee / Participant, Central Texas Writing Project Teacher Leader Advanced Institute. 2017.
  • Attendee / Participant, Central Texas Writing Project - National Writing Project AWC Institute. 2017.
  • Member, Co-organzier and Teacher Coach - Central Texas Writing Proejct Year-Long Institute. 2016 - 2017.

2016

  • Attendee / Participant, Humanities Texas Teacher Workshop: Writing Texas Summer Institute. 2016.

2014

  • Chair, South Central Modern Language Association-Western/Southwestern Lit. Panel. 2014.

2013

  • Secretary, South Central Modern Langauge Association-Western/Southwestern Lit. Panel. 2013.

2009

  • Chair, South Central Modern Language Association Childern's Literature Panel. 2009.
  • Chair, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association-Western/Southwestern Lit. Panel. 2009.

2008

  • Intern, Texas Books in Review. 2008.

2007

  • Co-Chair, San Marcos Young Writers. 2006 - 2007.

2005

  • Attendee / Participant, San Marcos Young Writers. 2003 - 2005.