Kelli Bateman

Kelli Bateman

Kelli Bateman is an educator with 25 years of experience as a teacher, instructional coach, speaker, and leader of multi-functional teams. She is also an award-winning creator of inspiring learning programs in schools, companies, and communities. With a passion for standards-based grading and collaborative assessment, Kelli has seen the implementation of successful systems despite resistance to change.

In her current role as an instructional coach at a middle school in Osceola County, Florida, Kelli supports teachers by providing systems that make planning, teaching, and grading more effective and efficient. Her long-term coaching involves goal setting, observations, measuring progress, analyzing data, reflecting on learning, and following up on next steps.

Some of Kelli’s recent program innovations grew out of needs she observed in her own district. The New Teacher Experience, for example, is a four-day summer workshop to expose brand-new teachers to effective instructional and grading practices, classroom management and technology systems, as well as the emotional support required to make it through their first year of teaching and beyond. Also, Journey To Calculus is a student-run program that helps incoming high school freshmen close skill gaps that would otherwise hinder their success in advanced mathematics courses.

Kelli earned her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She also holds a master’s degree in education leadership from Stetson University and a lean manager certification from Ohio State University.

Presentations by Kelli Bateman

• Sustainable practices for standards-based grading
• The formula for equity in advanced mathematics
• Long-term effects of hyper-acceleration in middle school math
• Making learning visible