Gale Harild

Gale Harild is an educational practitioner and Pathways consultant with extensive experience in K–12 experiential learning and career education. She co-authored Good to Great to Innovate: Recalculating the Route to Career Readiness, K–12+ with Lyn D. Sharratt, a book that outlines innovative approaches to college and career readiness based on data and best practices from schools on five continents.

Harild has served as a curriculum administrator for the York Region District School Board in Ontario, where for over 12 years she provided regional leadership and program development for cooperative education, international programming, service learning, apprenticeship programs, and the launch of Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) programs across the district. She has also worked as an instructional leader supporting the Faculty of Education’s professional development program at York University, and has contributed to advisory and curriculum-writing teams with the Ontario Ministry of Education.