Katie Garner

(2016) Secret Stories®- Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind!, Marenem Press. ISBN 069274536X, 9780692745366; Katie Garner is both the author and recording artist, as well as copyright holder and owner of four trademarks associated with Secret Stories® strategies that she shares in her international keynote address/ featured speaking presentations Katie Garner, M.Ed., (author of best-selling book, Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind) is an internationally known keynote speaker, author, and literacy consultant with over twenty-five years of experience working in elementary grade classrooms across the US, and a passion for infusing neuroscience into literacy and learning. Her "backdoor-to-the-brain" approach to accelerated phonics skill mastery, via the affective (social-emotional) learning networks, shifts the paradigms associated with traditional, reading skill instruction, and has been shared in both lecture and panel discussion at Harvard and M.I.T.