Kate Schell is an Assistant in Research and a Literacy Specialist with the Learning Systems Institute. Kate has 10 years of experience working in international education development, supporting teacher capacity-building, and facilitating the development of culturally relevant learning materials for early-grade reading in local and indigenous languages. She has expertise in multilingual education and pedagogies for multilingualism and biliteracy. She has M.A. degrees in Linguistics from Florida State University and in Literacy Program Development from the University of Gloucestershire.