Dr. Katy Farber has over 20 years of public education experience, including 19 years as a teacher and teacher leader, and four as a professional development coordinator at the University of Vermont’s Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education. She has conducted research about adolescent education and partnered with schools to help them personalize learning, engage students, and participate in action research. She earned her Doctorate in Education from Northeastern University in 2016 and is on the faculty of the Middle Grades Institute (planning and facilitating learning for practicing and pre-service teachers during a week-long professional development experience). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Education at Saint Michael’s College, where she teachers pre-service and graduate level students. Katy works to elevate the voices of students, teachers, and parents, and advocates for children’s health, leadership, authentic, integrated learning and deep, powerful service for others and the natural world.
books
- Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades: a guide for educators and school leaders, published by Harvard Education Press in 2019. (co-authored with John Downes and Penny Bishop).
- Salamander Sky, published by Green Writers Press in 2018
- Real and Relevant: a guide for service and project based learning by Rowman & Littlefield Press in 2017
- The Doing Revolution: Service Learning, Early Adolescents, and Personal Growth (dissertation at Northeastern University) by ProQuest, 2015
- The Order of the Trees published by Green Writers Press in 2015
- Change the World with Service Learning by Rowman & Littlefield Press in 2011
- Why Great Teachers Quit and How we Might Stop the Exodus published by Corwin Press in 2010
writing
- For the Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education at the University of Vermont
- For Edutopia
- For Motherly
- For Green Child magazine
- For Seen magazine
- For Moms Clean Air Force
- For CNN
- For MomsRising
- For Educational Leadership
- For Fox News Opinion
- For the Huffington Post
- On Medium
- And many other educational blogs and websites
awards
- Green Earth Book award honor book from The Nature Generation for Salamander Sky 2018
- Nautilus Silver Medal Award for Salamander Sky 2018
- Riverby Award from the John Burroughs Association for Salamander Sky 2018
- The Order of the Trees received The Nature Generation Honor Book Award for 2015
- Vermont Teacher of the Year Alternate, 2014
- Why Great Teachers Quit nominated for Prose Award, 2011
- Earthwatch Educational Fellowship Awardee, 2006
Please visit the press page to learn more. For more information about her books, or to schedule an interview or presentation, please contact Katy at katyfarber (at) gmail.com.