Kate Waechter is a program administrator in the Office of Academic Support at NDDPI. She has an undergraduate teaching degree from The University of North Dakota and her master's in curriculum and instruction from St. Catherine University. Before working for NDDPI, she taught for 11 years at several North Dakota schools in various roles, including Title I, elementary, and middle school math. In her role at NDDPI, Kate co-leads the ND Educational Hub and is the program lead for the Greater Math in ND grant program. In addition to this, she works closely with the NDREAs in the "Effective Math Instruction" work and is the REAP state coordinator.