Katie Garner, M.Ed., is an internationally known keynote speaker, author and literacy consultant with 30 years' experience working in classrooms across the US and a passion for infusing neuroscience into literacy and learning. Her “backdoor-to-the-brain” approach to fast-tracking phonics skills for reading shifts the paradigms associated with traditional phonics instruction. Katie's fast-paced, dynamic presentations spotlight "brain-changing" strategies for simplifying science of reading-based instruction by aligning existing curriculum with the latest neural research on how our brains learn best. Her practical and evidence-proven methods for bringing neuroscience into the forefront of literacy and learning have been shared in both lecture and panel discussion at Harvard University and MIT. Katie’s work has also been the subject of numerous professional journal articles and publications, including the recent release of several RCT research studies, having met the highest standard of evidence under ESSA Tier I–Strong. Katie is the author of the best-selling, Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind, and her Facebook Group, Science of Reading Meets Science of Learning with Secret Stories has become a literacy learning hub for almost 106,000 educators, worldwide. https://bit.ly/SecretStoriesGroup