Katie Garner, M.Ed. (author of Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind) is an internationally known author, keynote speaker, and consultant with twenty-five years combined classroom experience and a passion for infusing neuroscience into literacy learning.

Her "backdoor-to-the-brain" approach to phonemic skill mastery via the affective learning domain shifts the paradigm of early grade skill instruction, and has gained national recognition with the No Child Left Behind, Reading First, and RTI Initiatives.

As a featured and keynote speaker at educational conferences across the United States and abroad— including an ongoing keynote series at the International Vulnerable Readers Summits, with North American literacy leaders, Dr. Richard Allington (What Really Matters for Struggling Readers)and Dr. Anne Cunningham (The National Early Literacy Panel “NELP” Report)— Katie offers game-changing strategies for boosting existing phonics skill instruction with the latest neural research showing how our brains learn best.

Her practical and proven methods for bringing neuroscience into the forefront of literacy learning have been shared in both lectures and panel discussions at MIT and Harvard University as part of the Learning & the Brain Conference & Research Consortium and are the focus of an upcoming professional development book series.