This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Doing with Katherine Bassett. Doing is all about developing the acuity to redirect actions, building decision making muscle that results in the ability to get things purposely done. Katherine exemplifies this idea in her personal and professional life, sharing that it is not always easy, “We as women particularly need to embrace discomfort, and that’s hard for us.” She highlights that hoping is not doing, underscoring how “Respect and credibility are built by what you actually do in your work. Join in this rich dialogue about how purposeful doing leads to a juicy influential life!
Katherine Bassett is Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder of Tall Poppy, a nationwide consultancy firm providing leadership development and other services to schools, districts, associations and connecting educators with opportunities in policy, research, and advocacy. Additionally she co-founded Research and Assessment Design: Science Solution, www.radssolution.com, to assess social and emotional learning skills across career verticals which include incarcerated citizens, reentry citizens, educators, students and workforce.
Past experience includes being President/CEO for the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, the Director of Policy and Partnerships for The Center for Educator Effectiveness at Pearson, and for twelve years with Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ as the Director of Educator Relations Group and other leadership roles. She also served as the Assessment Developer/Facilitator for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The genesis of her career was as a Library Media Specialist, Ocean City Intermediate School in New Jersey.
She has an M.A. in Elementary Education along with a Post-Graduate Certificate in Computers in Education from Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, and a B.S in Educational Media/Library Science from Millersville University, Millersville, PA.
Katherine has received numerous awards and honors for her work, such as being the 2000 New Jersey State Teacher of the Year, New Jersey State Legislature Honoree & Congressional Honoree and twice being the New Jersey Best Practices awardee. She is an expert educator and executive volunteer with respect to education assessment and standards development. She is highly published and a sought after national speaker.
