Katie White Professional Development

Katie White is an independent educational consultant and author with over 30 years of experience spanning K–12 classroom teaching, online instruction, learning coaching, administration, and system leadership. Her professional development focuses on assessment practices that honour both teachers and learners, drawing on her books Softening the Edges: Assessment Practices That Honor K–12 Teachers and Learners, Unlocked: Assessment as the Key to Everyday Creativity in the Classroom, and Student Self-Assessment: Data Notebooks, Portfolios and Other Tools to Advance Learning. A past-president of the Canadian Assessment for Learning Network and contracted specialist for organisations including the Saskatchewan Professional Development Unit and the LEGO Company (as a creativity and assessment specialist), Katie brings a unique blend of assessment expertise and creativity research to her work with educators.

Key Takeaways

✓Assessment strategies that honour both teachers and learners across pre-assessment, formative, self-assessment, and summative contexts; frameworks for unlocking creativity through assessment; practical tools for student self-assessment including data notebooks and portfolios.

Evidence base: Based on Katie White's published research and books on assessment, with expertise recognised through her role as past-president of the Canadian Assessment for Learning Network.

Presenter

Katie White

Katie White has 30+ years of education experience as a teacher, learning coach, administrator, and system leader. She is past-president of the Canadian Assessment for Learning Network, a contracted assessment specialist for the Saskatchewan PDU and LEGO Company, and author of Softening the Edges, Unlocked, and Student Self-Assessment.

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