Kathryn (Kadie) Wilson is the former Assistant Superintendent of Schools for a set of rural districts located in the Mount Washington Valley of New Hampshire. She is an experienced educational leader committed to transforming learning systems through the implementation of personalized, competency-based structures.

Kadie earned her BA in Elementary and Special education from Providence College, an MA in Educational Leadership from Framingham State University, and a CAGS in Advanced Educational Leadership from the University of New England. She completed her doctoral studies at Northeastern University, earning her EdD in Curriculum, Teaching, Learning, and Leading.

Kadie is passionate about the potential for high-quality performance assessment to create more equitable educational systems aligned to the needs of today’s students. Her dissertation, “Shifting the Nature of Teaching and Learning with Performance Assessment” allowed her to build skill with action research while identifying the conditions necessary to affect change within her local context.  

Kadie lives in North Conway, New Hampshire with her husband, Tom, and their Bernese mountain dog, Rocky. When not working, she loves spending time golfing, skiing, hiking, and baking.