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 and were "retired" in 2024.
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, 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 one page information sheet about Kathy and a full resume in PDF format.
If you need a headshot image for a conference program, here it is.
She also maintains these additional Web sites:
• The Dave DeBusschere Sport Card Site
• Unofficial American Graffiti Site
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.
