About Kathy
Kathy Schrock has been a school district Director of Technology, an instructional technology specialist, and a middle school, academic, museum, and public library librarian. She is currently an online adjunct graduate-level professor for Wilkes University (PA) and an independent educational technologist.
She has been involved with technology to support teaching and learning since the early 1990's, and is an Adobe Education Leader, a Google Certified Innovator, an Amazon Teacher Innovator, an Apple Teacher 2016, a ThingLink Certified Educator, a MakerBot Curriculum Creator, and a Discovery Education Guru.
In 1995, Kathy created the award-winning site, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, to help teachers easily wade through the many resources on the Web. In 1999, she partnered with Discovery Education and maintained the site until late 2012 when the site was retired. Kathy's current online resources were then located on the Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything page. Her resources for teachers are located at https://blog.kathyschrock.net.
In addition to teaching online, Kathy writes, speaks, blogs, tweets, and conducts professional development workshops, presentations, and keynotes both nationally and internationally. She is known for her practical presentations dealing with pedagogically-sound practices for the embedding of technology seamlessly into teaching and learning. Kathy's passions are online tools to support classroom instruction, the role of emerging technologies in the classroom, infographics, tablets in the classroom, assessment and rubrics, copyright and intellectual property, and gadgets of any type! You can find her on Mastodon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky and many other social networks!
Some personal facts about Kathy are that she lives in a geodesic dome, was her high school mascot at Morris Knolls High School in NJ, has a large Dave Debusschere sports card collection, and watches Days of Our Lives each day!
Here is a full résumé in PDF format.
If you need a headshot image for a conference program, here it is.
She also maintains these additional Web sites:
Kathy has written hundreds of articles dealing with technology and education and has also authored several books about educational technology topics. In addition, she has received numerous awards for her work, including a People's Choice Webby, both the ISTE and MassCUE Making IT Happen Award, the NCTIES Service Learning Award, has served on the ISTE Board of Directors for two terms, and has worked with the US Department of Education on several educational technology initiatives. The full list of her awards is found below.
Read two articles from Kathy's local papers written in March, 2001 and July, 2003. And see the article that started it all from December 1995.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2018
ADVISORY BOARD, CoSN
Driving K-12 Innovation Reports
2017
ADVISORY BOARD, NMC
Horizon Report K-12 Edition
2016
AWARD RECIPIENT
Top 100 Teacher Blogs
Feedspot
2016
ADVISORY BOARD, NMC
Horizon Report K-12 Edition
2016
JUDGE
ISTE Awards Committee
2015
ADVISORY BOARD, NMC
Horizon Report K-12 Edition
2014
ADVISORY BOARD, NMC
Horizon Report K-12 Edition
2013
ADVISORY BOARD
NAEP
Technology-based assessments
2013
ADVISORY BOARD
NMC Horizon Report K-12 Edition
2013-2014
MEMBER
ISTE Board Composition Committee.
2012-2014
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
2012-2014
MEMBER
ISTE Board Linkages Committee
2012-2014
MEMBER
ISTE Board Board Nominations Advisory Committee
2012-2013
MEMBER
ISTE CCSS Position Statement Task Force
2011
AWARD RECIPIENT
Discovery Educator Network DEN Guru Award
2007
AWARD RECIPIENT
MassCUE
Making IT Happen Award
2007
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Open Cape Broadband Project
2006
INDUCTEE
Morris Knolls/Hills Regional School District (NJ)
Student/Teacher Hall of Fame
2006
RECIPIENT
NCTIES Service Award
2006-2010
CO-CHAIR
ISTE Innovative and Emerging Technologies Task Force.
2006-2007
MEMBER-AT-LARGE,
ISTE Awards and Recognitions Committee
2005
AWARD RECIPIENT
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Making IT Happen Award
2004-2006
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
2004-2006
CHAIR
ISTE Awards and Recognition Committee
2004-2006
CHAIR
ISTE 100 Affiliates and SIG Task Force
2004
ALUMNA OF THE YEAR
Rutgers University
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
2001- 2006
ADVISORY BOARD,
Technology and Learning
2001
AWARD RECIPIENT
MA Internet and Software Council
Above and Beyond Award
1999
ADVISORY PANEL
US Department of Education, Office of Ed Technology
Forum on Technology in Education: Envisioning the Future
1998-2001
CHAIRPERSON
Cape Cod School Technology Facilitators
1998-2001
MEMBER
Cape Cod Connect Education Committee/Technical Review Team
1998
AWARD RECIPIENT
Classroom Connect
STARS Award
1997-2007
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT
Technology Pathfinders for Teachers and Administrators
1997- 2016
ADVISORY BOARD
Linworth Publications
1996
AWARD RECIPIENT
MassCUE Technology Pathfinder Award