About

Katie Muhtaris has been an educator for 15 years in both urban and suburban settings and values learning experiences for students that are both innovative and meaningful. Katie currently works with kindergarten through fifth grade students and teachers as an Instructional Digital Age Learning Coach, with a focus on literacy, humanities, and technology. As part of this role she coaches teachers to develop and reflect on their instructional practices in literacy, and to seamlessly integrate technology to amplify student learning and voice.

Katie Muhtaris is a co-author of Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K-6 Classroom and Connecting Comprehension and Technology. She has a new book coming out in the fall of 2019 called Read the World Now: Rethinking Literacy for Empathy and Action in a Digital Age.

Katie is an experienced staff developer, speaker, and writer and offers consulting services to districts in the areas of technology & literacy integration, unpacking media for critical consumption, using the creative power of tech tools to amplify learning, inquiry based teaching, curriculum development, and equity through resources.

Katie lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and two children. The best deep dish pizza in Chicago can be found at Pequod's. Shhhh....don't tell.