Kat is Executive School Improvement Lead and Curriculum and Assessment Lead at Windsor Academy Trust and Chief Executive Officer at Litdrive, a charity that supports subject specific professional development for English teachers in the UK. Previously, Kat has held roles in school and trust-wide improvement, as well as leading regional and national professional development at scale. Kat contributed curriculum content to the Reformed NPQ Leadership Suite In addition, she served as a Council member for the Chartered College of Teaching and is a Trustee for Education Support, advocating for teacher wellbeing and professional development.
Kat is also a member of the Programme Advisory Group at the NIoT and regional ambassador for the Maternity Teacher Paternity Teacher Project. She is the author of the bestsellers Stop Talking About Wellbeing: a Pragmatic Approach to Teacher Workload and co-author of Symbiosis: the Curriculum and the Classroom, with her co-authored book with DR Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Reviving Rhetoric due to be published in 2026.
Kat works with schools, Trusts and colleagues in specialist areas such as school improvement and quality assurance, leadership coaching, workforce review, change management and system improvement, curriculum design and review, professional development design and workload audits. Kat also coaches a small number of female leaders and aspiring leaders each academic year. To scope out a project or get in touch regarding coaching, please contact katherine.howard@hotmail.co.uk or use the contact form here.
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Hi Kat. I’m about to become literacy coordinator at my school and wondered if I could have access to your Litdrive? It sounds like a fantastic resource!
Thank you. Natalie
Hi Kat
I have just been looking at your ‘Origins of Literature’ big lecture powerpoint on this page and noticed that it seems to be partly about curriculum and then jumps into the literature itself, including the timeline. Is this how it is supposed to look, or have two presentations somehow become amalgamated? If there is an entire one for the origins material, would it be possible to have a copy please? I am writing something similar for our own introductory unit at present and this would be very useful if you are prepared to share.