Kate Walsh

Kate Walsh has served as the president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) since 2002. Her commitment to addressing educational inequities and the nation’s achievement gap has defined her career, including a long tenure as a senior program officer at The Abell Foundation, as well as with the Baltimore City Public Schools. Her work has tackled a broad spectrum of children's educational needs—from founding the successful Ingenuity Project for preparing gifted Baltimore City students in mathematics and science to a unique boarding school located in Kenya, East Africa, which served at-risk boys who had been attending Baltimore middle schools. Ms. Walsh also started the first alternative certification program for teachers in Maryland, a project which led to her strong interest in teacher quality. A resident of Baltimore, Walsh is a member of the Maryland State School Board.