My kids along with many others are getting ready to go back to school within the next few weeks....
Katie Martin
Teachers Create What They Experience: 10 Strategies for Improving Staff Meetings
The more a teacher knows about teaching and has opportunities to develop the fundamental skills to...
What’s Preventing Students from Learning in School?
I was once asked, “What would you do with four hundred students who don’t want to learn?” I took a...
5 Practices that Inspire Others to Shift Practices
When I am facilitating professional learning days or facilitating a conference workshop, one of...
The Power of Shifting from Compliance to Agency
I was once told that for every class, you should spend two hours planning. As the saying goes, if...
Why an Authentic Audience Matters
I watched this video with my kids in one of their youtube compilations- it's pretty insane to look...
School Doesn't Have to Kill Creativity
This week was my son’s 3rd-grade exhibition of learning, where he presented his final project and...
Learner-Centered Innovation Book Study: Part 3 Recap
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big...

Dr. Katie Martin
Dr. Katie Martin is the author of Learner-Centered Innovation and VP of Leadership and Learning at Altitude Learning. She teaches in the graduate school of Education at High Tech High and is on the board of Real World Scholars. Learn More.
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