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