Kimberly L. Mitchell

Kimberly L. Mitchell is a popular speaker and award-winning inquiry-based practitioner. In 2013, she founded Inquiry Partners, an international professional learning organization offering simulations, demonstrations, videos, and coaching support on the "inquiry five" instructional strategies to schools and organizations around the world.

In addition to her work with Inquiry Partners, Kimberly is a respected adjunct professor at the University of Washington (UW). She is known for "walking the talk" by creating engaging, student-led, lecture-free classes. Kimberly developed her passion for inquiry-based instruction as an elementary and middle school teacher, high school vice principal, elementary principal, Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Director of Partner Engagement at Teach for All in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Kimberly received her M.A. in Education Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University. She lives in her native Seattle with her husband (a middle school teacher) and two children.