Katie Garner, M.Ed., author of Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind, is an internationally known education keynote speaker and literacy consultant with 30 years of experience working in classrooms around the world. Her “backdoor to the brain” approach to fast-tracking phonics skills for reading shifts the paradigms associated with traditional literacy instruction. Katie's fast-paced, dynamic presentations spotlight “brain-changing” strategies for boosting existing reading/phonics curriculum by aligning science of reading-based practice with the brain’s systems for learning. Her practical and proven methods have been shared in both lecture and panel discussions at Harvard University and MIT, and have been the subject of numerous professional journal articles and publications.