Katy Farber is a teacher and author from the mountains of Vermont. Her first book, Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus, was released in July by Corwin Press. Her second book, Change the World with Service Learning: How to Create, Lead and Assess Service Learning Projects, was released in 2011 by Rowman and Littlefield Press. Her latest book for children is Salamander Sky, a picture book about the magical and secretive crossings of the spotted salamander, and a girl who goes out on a rainy early spring night to help them. Her other book for children, The Order of the Trees, is a middle grade novel published by Green Writers Press in May 2015. It won the Green Earth Award Honor Award from the Nature Generation. Her latest non-fiction book was as a co-author of Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades: a guide for educators and school leaders with Harvard Education Press (May 2019).