Katy Farber, Ed.D, is an educator and writer from Vermont. She is the author of four books about education: Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus; and Change the World with Service Learning; and its new edition, Real and Relevant: a guide for service and project based learning, released in June 2017. She also co-authored Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades (Harvard Education Press, 2019) . Her first work of fiction is a middle grade novel called The Order of the Trees (Green Writers Press, 2015), which was awarded as a Nature Generation Honor Book. Her first picture book, called Salamander Sky, and was published in 2018, and received a John Burroughs Association Riverby Award. Her writing has been published on CNN's School of Thought blog, Educational Leadership, Edutopia, Huffington Post and the Synapse.
Connect with her on Twitter at @non_toxic_kids and @katyfarber, or at her website katyfarber.com.