Kim K. Winter, Ph.D.

Biography

Kim K. Winter is Dean and Professor in the College of Education and Allied Professions and superintendent of The Catamount School (UNC-System lab school) at Western Carolina University. She is an experienced higher education administrator skilled in accreditation, assessment, curriculum development, enrollment and personnel management, budget and finance, as well as partnership development and advocacy. During Winter’s tenure as dean, college scholarship dollars have more than doubled and in 2023, secured an endowment of 2.5 million for a distinguished professorship in early literacy. Dr. Winter’s teaching and research expertise includes the induction and retention of teachers, performance-based assessment, middle level curriculum and instruction, language arts and disciplinary literacy methods, young adolescent development, English Learner methods, young adult literature, and higher education organization and administration. She has remained an active scholar since becoming a full-time administrator and has secured external grant funding in excess of 3.7 million. Volunteer service in North Carolina includes the State Board of Education Literacy Task Force, Teaching Fellows Commission, Early Learning & Literacy Impact Coalition, New Teacher Support Program Advisory Council, Task Force on Trauma-informed Practices (part of the NC Center for Resilience and Learning, a center housed at the Public School Forum of NC), and as co-chair of the UNC System Education Preparation Advisory Group. Winter has also served on many committees within the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), and as an accreditation reviewer for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Dr. Winter holds a baccalaureate degree in Applied Learning and Development from The University of Texas at Austin and a master’s and doctorate in Curriculum with a specialization in English from Indiana State University. She has taught in public schools at the elementary and middle school levels in both Texas and Indiana.

Education

• Ph D, Indiana State University, Curriculum and Instruction, English
• MED, Indiana State University, Curriculum and Instruction, English
• BS, University of Texas Austin, Applied Learning and Development, English & Spanish

Teaching Interests

Middle Grades Philosophy & School Organization<br>Young Adolescent Development<br>Curriculum and Instruction<br>Differentiated Instruction<br>English Language Learners<br>Language Arts and Writing Methods (grades 4-8)<br>Content Area Literacy (middle and secondary)

Research Interests

Performance-Based Assessment in Teacher Education<br><br>Preservice teacher development<br><br>Induction and retention of teachers<br><br>Digital video analysis of and reflection on teaching among preservice teachers