Katherine Bassett is an education innovator and advocate. Throughout her career, she has advocated for students to receive the highest quality of education regardless of their zip code or family circumstances. She has championed the strengthening of the teaching profession and the inclusion of educator voices in every aspect of education policy formation and implementation. Katherine is currently the Executive Director of the NJ Tutoring Corps, a program funded by the Overdeck Family Foundation and the New Jersey Pandemic Release Fund that partners with Boys and Girls Clubs and the Y Alliance to provide tutoring to scholars in grades K-5 throughout New Jersey.
She is also the CEO of Tall Poppy LLC. A few of her clients have included the Advanced Studies in Culture Foundation at the University of Virginia; Teach Upbeat; The Center for Curriculum Redesign; The JFK Library Foundation; the Utah State Board of Education. She is the former President and CEO of the National Network of State Teachers of the Year.
She served as Director of Policy and Partnerships for the Center for Educator Effectiveness at Pearson, working to support research into educator practice and self-efficacy, and to building partnerships with like-minded organizations to support education. Formerly at ETS, Katherine led the development of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certificates for Library Media and Literacy, co-developed the Take One! program booklet, led the development of performance-based assessments across the continuum of professional educator practice in four states and worked with six states to develop a common continuum of practice. She led strategic bidding across the US resulting in multiple state assessment awards for performance-based assessments.