PODCAST
- Host and coproducer (along with Una Malcolm) of the hit podcast Reading Road Trip from IDA Ontario, now planning its fourth season.
- Hosted live audience Reading Road Trip episode at IDA Ontario’s LitLearn 2024 with guests Anita Archer & Sonia Cabell
WEBINARS
- Structured Literacy In Kindergarten: 5 Changes That Made All My Students Readers from IDA Ontario
- IDA Ontario’s Literacy Leaders 3 part series on Universal Screening (panelist) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
PRESENTATIONS
In-person
- Alaska Science of Reading Symposium 2024, presented keynote “My SoR Journey: A Teacher’s Reflections” and breakout “Evidence-Based Fluency Strategies for K-8 Classrooms”
- IDA Ontario Literacy Learning Conference 2024, presented “Unlocking Word Power: Practical Classroom Strategies for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction” with Nellie Caruso and Leigh Fettes
- IDA Ontario Literacy Learning Conference 2023, presented “Beyond Phonics: Reading Science in the Elementary Classroom” with Nellie Caruso and Leigh Fettes
- “Beyond Phonics: Reading Science in the Elementary Classroom” for Trillium Lakelands Elementary Teachers’ Local (ETFO), 2023
- Algoma District School Board – Summer Institute, 2023
Virtual
- Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board, 2022
- Bluewater District School Board – Summer Institute, 2023
- South Kootenay District School Board, 2023
- Niagara Catholic District School Board (solo presentations for educators & parents, multi-part series with Kim Lockhart), 2023, 2024
- Peel District School Board (multi-part series with Kim Lockhart), 2022, 2023, 2024
- North Vancouver District School Board (multi-part series with Kim Lockhart) 2023, 2024
- Huron Perth Catholic District School Board (for Principals & Vice Principals), 2024
- IDA ON Right to Read Presentation for Ontario Catholic Supervisory Officers Association, 2022
- Science of Reading Book Study at PVNCCDSB (The Art & Science of Teaching Primary Reading by Christopher Such), 2022
- Parent Literacy Night – Huronia Centennial Elementary School (with Alicia Smith and Una Malcolm), 2024
- New Westminster District School Board (multi-part series with Kim Lockhart), 2024
PRESS CONFERENCE
- Ministry of Education press conference announcing revisions to literacy expectations of the Ontario kindergarten program (provided remarks and responded to media questions)
ACADIENCE TRAINING (Acadience Reading K-6 Mentor & PELI trained)
- Facilitated training (along with consultant and reading coaches) for approximately 400 PVNCCDSB educators (K-2 teams, special education resource teachers, principals, some high school teams), 2023
- Facilitated training (along with consultant and reading coaches) for approximately 200 PVNCCDSB educators (Grades 3-6), 2024
PODCAST GUEST APPEARANCES
- Triple R Teaching with Anna Geiger (The Measured Mom)
- Melissa & Lori Love Literacy
- Creative Kindergarten
- Right to Read Initiative Part 1 and Part 2
- Human Chapters
- Thought Stretchers Panel with Natalie Wexford, Emily Hanford & Micki Ray
TV SEGMENTS
- See TV page, which includes the Morning Show segment “Debunking Reading Myths for Parents”
PRINT ARTICLES
- See Print page, which includes the Today’s Parent article “I’m a Kindergarten Teacher and the Way I’ve Been Teaching Reading Is Wrong” – a headline that was included in The Right to Read film.
ADVOCACY PRESENTATIONS
- Minister of Education – The Right to Read
- Minister of Education – Early Reading Screening
ONLIT
- Content Lead forONlit, the provincial Ministry-funded collaboration between IDA Ontario and Dyslexia Canada helping to support the rollout of the new Ontario Language Curriculum; wrote and facilitated 7 Mighty Moves book study; co-wrote Next STEPS book study slides (with Nellie Caruso); responsible for book additions to ONlit resource library, Kindergarten Virtual Drop-In Sessions, Important Canadians Read-Aloud Unit (based on CKLA)
TEACHER
- Teacher with the PVNCCDSB since 2000 (French as a Second Language, Gifted Education, Kindergarten, 2, 3, 4, 5 and literacy on rotary in 7/8)
ADDITIONAL ROLES, TRAINING, ETC.
- Informal consultation with numerous boards and individual educators
- Book endorsement for 7 Mighty Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-3 Reading Success by Lindsay Kemeny (featured on back cover of book)
- Media interviews (e.g., Toronto Star – Right to Read, Toronto Star – Generation Alpha & Reading, CTV News – New Kindergarten Curriculum)
- Advance reviewer of multiple literacy books for publishing companies
- IDA Ontario’s Basics of Decoding and Spelling Instruction
- IDA Ontario’s Introduction to Structured Literacy/Top Ten Tools
- Board Member of Kawartha Lakes Public Library
- …and thousands of hours of self-directed professional development: reading books & articles, attending conferences, taking part in PD, watching webinars, etc.
More exciting updates to come throughout 2024! Interested in working with Kate?
