Karen Johannesen Brock

Karen Johannesen Brock

Dr. Karen Johannesen Brock has been an educator and educational presenter for more than three decades. She has assisted more than one hundred schools (K–12) and districts with implementing school improvement plans. Her work with schools and districts focuses on instructional coaching and design as well as professional learning plans, school-improvement plans, English learners and multilingual students, and literacy. Dr. Brock works with principals and leadership teams on school leadership and has worked at the state, school, and district levels.

Dr. Brock has been an elementary and secondary teacher (general and special education) and currently serves as an elementary principal. She has taught at the university level on the topics of educational leadership, school data, professional learning, and K–12 literacy.

Dr. Brock holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University and a master's degree and doctorate from Oxford University. She is the author of Coaching for Multilingual Student Success: Intentional Practices to Accelerate Learning and Close Achievement Gaps.

Presentations by Karen Johannesen Brock

• Coaching for Multilingual Student Success: Engaging the ML Student in EVERY Classroom
• Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About: A Four-Step Process to Increase Dialog and Writing across the School Day
• Instructional Coaching: Every Teacher Deserves a Coach
• Implement! How to Move a Plan from Paper to Implementation in Every Classroom
• The Learning School: Moving from a Teaching Focus to a Learner Focus in the Classroom
• High-Engagement Teaching Strategies to Keep the Students Thinking