K12Launch exists to help practitioners spend more time on educating their students and less time managing mundane business details.
Katie Reel has spent her career helping children learn to read. Trained in the Orton-Gillingham approach and recognized across the South Carolina Lowcountry as a literacy expert, she has worked with hundreds of students from Pre-K through 12th grade — many of whom struggled with reading in ways that traditional classroom instruction couldn't fully address.
As she built her own tutoring practice and connected with other independent literacy practitioners, a pattern emerged: incredible practitioners spending hours every week on admin — scheduling by text, tracking students in spreadsheets, building lesson plans from scratch, chasing invoices, and having no good way to show parents what progress actually looked like.
K12Launch is that platform. It started with Katie's students and her methodology. It's now in beta with its first subscribers. And it's built to grow — because the more literacy practitioners K12Launch can support, the more children across the Lowcountry and beyond get access to the expert reading instruction they deserve.
Katie is a classroom practitioner turned independent literacy specialist with deep expertise in the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading instruction. She is recognized locally as an expert in literacy intervention and has built a community of parents & practitioners through her online content, where she shares practical reading strategies, games, and resources.
At K12Launch, Katie leads the literacy methodology, quality standards, and practitioner onboarding — ensuring that every K12Launch practitioner delivers the same level of care and expertise she would. Her passion for students, parents, and fellow practitioners drives every decision we make.
Todd brings a career's worth of process design and operational thinking to K12Launch. He leads product development and the subscriber experience — focused on building tools that make a genuine difference for working practitioners.
K12Launch exists to make that possible — by giving the practitioners who deliver it the tools to do it well, the platform to grow their practice, and the community to support their work.
Whether you're a literacy practitioner looking for better tools or a parent looking for the right practitioner — we're here.