CULINARY EDUCATION.
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP.
BUILT WITH INTENTION.
The person who teaches people how to bake — and how to build what comes next.
Kimberly I. Houston is a Le Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef with dual master's degrees in Adult Learning & Instructional Design and Transformational Leadership & Coaching. She has spent her career at the intersection of culinary expertise and education strategy — building programs, writing curriculum, and advocating for the rigor that culinary arts instruction deserves.
She is the founder of Teach Me How to Bake — a standards-driven baking education company and home of Teach Me How to Bake v2, a 175-page printed children's baking curriculum released in 2025. She is also the creator of the Baking and Pastry Arts Curriculum (BAPC) — a professional-grade CTE curriculum for middle and high school baking and pastry programs, built to meet the standards culinary educators actually need in the classroom.
Her consulting and professional development work supports school districts, CTE coordinators, and culinary schools in building, assessing, and strengthening baking and pastry programs. She brings the same standard to every engagement: culinary authority, instructional design expertise, and a deep belief that how you teach people matters as much as what you teach them.
If you're an educator, program director, or district leader ready to build something better —
You don't need a generic curriculum package or a one-size-fits-all workshop.
You need someone who has been in the kitchen and the classroom. Someone who understands CTE standards, knows what culinary instruction actually looks like at the middle and high school level, and can help you build a program students take seriously — because it was designed that way from the start.
That's the work I do.
Ways to work together:
* Culinary Education Consulting
* Professional Development Workshops for Culinary Educators
* Baking & Pastry Curriculum Implementation Support
* Speaking & Keynotes
I also authored Teach Me How to Bake v2 — a 175-page printed children's baking curriculum released in 2025, used by families and educators across the country.
Whether you found me because of the curriculum or because of the consulting — you're in the right place.
The question I'd ask you is the same either way: What are you trying to build, and what's standing between you and building it well?
That's where we start.
