Carrie Kate Wilson

Carrie Wilson’s work focuses on the central role of practitioner knowledge and insight in educational transformation. The guiding principle of her work is the role of learning cultures in promoting individual learning for students, teachers, principals, and district leaders. Carrie’s experience as a teacher, teacher supervisor, cooperating teacher, facilitator of professional learning, leader of a non-profit organization, and a leadership coach has informed and inspired her vision of practitioner-driven educational transformation. In her graduate research, Carrie identified the importance of creating a “thinking space” for novice teachers during post-observation discussions. This led her to develop the practice of public learning, featured in Chapter 7, as a key tool in shifting cultures of compliance to cultures of curiosity. As Executive Director of Lead by Learning (formerly Mills Teacher Scholars) at Mills College, Carrie oversees all aspects of development, including programs that help districts create adult learning cultures through the practice of public learning. She is passionate about supporting educators to challenge each other’s assumptions as they become agents for change with a moral imperative to dismantle oppressive and racist systems.