Katie Garner

Keynote Speaker, Author & Literacy Consultant
Learning & the Brain Research Consortium

Katie Garner, M.Ed. is a speaker, author, and literacy consultant with more than 25 years of experience working in elementary classrooms around the US, and a passion for infusing neuroscience into literacy and learning! Katie's fast-paced and dynamic presentations spotlight brain-changing strategies for boosting existing reading curriculum and instruction with the latest neural research showing how our brains learn best. Her “backdoor-to-the-brain” approach to fast-tracking phonics skills for reading via social-emotional learning channels shifts the paradigms associated with early literacy instruction. Katie’s practical and proven methods have been the subject of numerous professional journal articles, and shared in both lecture and panel discussions at Harvard University and M.I.T.