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She developed an Induction program for new administrators, created a retired administrator mentoring program for new administrators, and a Leadership Academy for aspiring administrators. She also facilitated the state principal certification program. She actively coached new principals and established Transition Support Teams to set them up for success in their leadership roles. In addition, Dr. Katz has developed programs that focus on customer satisfaction and gifted special needs populations.  

In 2010, after a principal retired mid-year, Dr. Katz returned to a principal position where she was once again involved in the heart of education. “The school level is where there is daily contact with teachers, staff, children and parents.  The principalship was my favorite job as every day I had the opportunity to make a positive difference in the life of a child!” 

In November 2012, she officially retired from the Sarasota County School system but since then has become more involved with her own consulting firm: WJK Education Consulting. Initially she consulted at private schools out of state, but for the seven years facilitated four Leadership programs for Sarasota County Schools. Dr. Katz continues to serve as the Initiative Manager for EdExploreSRQ for The Patterson Foundation. In June 2014, she served the Interim Director at Hershorin-Schiff Community Day School formerly Goldie Feldman Academy.

Additionally, she teaches as an Adjunct Professor in Education Leadership at the University of South Florida at the Sarasota-Manatee campus. She volunteers on the Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts Steering Committee (C/SPA) and serves on the Board of Trustees at Hershorin-Schiff Community Day School. She serves on the Sarasota County School District’s Cultural Proficiency Committee and FLDOE/Wallace Foundation Leadership Development Committee.

She is a graduate of Leadership Florida Education Class III. She graduated from the National Staff Development Council Academy program and served for three years as a member on the National Association for Secondary School Principals’ Principal Preparation Task Force. She has presented at national educational conferences, most recently in 2017 at the Learning Forward national conference: A Decade of Excellence: Growing Our Own Leaders. In 2018, she  served on the Wallace Foundation’s University Principal Preparation Initiative- (SELECT) Florida School Educational Leadership Enhancement Committee. She serves as a facilitator at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the summer and has been published in Education Week in 2012 relative to the successful results of leadership development program she developed. 

She received her bachelor’s degree in Special Education from Indiana University, a master’s degree in Reading, certification in Gifted Education, her Specialist’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Nova University, and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from Seton Hall University.

In addition to her professional career accomplishments, Dr. Katz is the proud mother of four phenomenally successful children and grandmother to seven inquisitive grandchildren.