Katie White
spends her days working to transform the educational experience for teachers and students. She has been an integral part of her own school system's multi-year journey through educational reform and has assisted systems worldwide in their work toward approaches that honour learning relationships. She has a passion for helping educators develop a personalized understanding of the connections between curriculum, assessment, and instruction and creative approaches for reaching and teaching every single learner in every single classroom.
In living out this passion, she not only works within her system, but serves as an independent educational consultant and an author for Solution Tree. Her sense of humor and responsive approach to adult learning makes her a sought-after professional support for systems and schools. In addition, she is a co-moderator of the well-known #ATAssessment Twitter chat and she is the president of the Canadian Assessment for Learning Network.
Her books include:
- Softening the Edges: Assessment Practices that Honor K-12 Teachers and Learners;
- Unlocked: Assessment as the Key to Unlocking Everyday Creativity in the Classroom;
- Student Self-Assessment: Data Notebooks, Portfolios and Other tools to Advance Learning;
- Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Assessment and Grading