Kate Gardoqui

Kate Gardoqui is a senior associate with Great Schools Partnership. Along with other GSP coaches, she has helped facilitate community meetings, provided professional development to educators, and worked with district leaders to plan events and analyze data during Springfield’s Portrait of a Graduate process. She has taught in public middle and high schools in New Mexico, Philadelphia, New Hampshire, and most recently at Noble High School in North Berwick, Maine. She was awarded the 2007 Bob Costas Grant for the Teaching of Writing, was a state finalist for the 2011 Maine Teacher of the Year Award, and was named the University of New Hampshire Teacher Mentor of the Year in 2014. Kate also taught for over a decade in the University of New Hampshire Literacy Institutes, offering graduate-level training in nature-based learning and literacy.