Kelli Bateman

Kelli Bateman

Kelli Bateman is a high-energy educator with 25 years’ experience as a teacher, instructional coach, speaker, change manager, and leader of multi-functional teams. She is an award-winning creator of inspiring learning programs in schools, companies, and communities. Kelli has a passion for standards-based grading and collaborative assessment which has led to the implementation of successful systems in schools she has worked with, even when there is resistance to change.

In her current role as an instructional coach at a middle school in Osceola County, FL, 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. She also enjoys making custom documentation tools that help teachers maintain alignment with standards, track progress of student learning, and make grading quick and easy.

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

• SBG Made Simple(ish): Inspiring Ideas and Practical Tools for Busy, Tired Teachers
• Hit the Ground Running With Standards-based Grading for AP Calculus
• 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