Wikipedia
Radio
Word on the Street Festival, Vancouver, 09/25/2005, interviewed by CKWX radio:
Interviews
Interview with Lori Calabrese, 2/14/2008: loricalabrese.blogspot.com/2008/02/author-interview-kari-winters.html.
Press releases
- National Council of Teachers of English 2006 press release (PDF) for Kari’s panel session “Engaging Readers through Performance and Folklore,” November 19 2006.
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007
From: Office of the Dean at UBC
[edited for brevity]
We are delighted to announce this year’s winners of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Awards. All three students are to be commended for their excellent contributions to teaching and to our Faculty.
Recipients of the UBC Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Awards:
Kari-Lynn Winters, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Kari-Lynn is a very passionate educator who draws on her extensive background in theatre and literacy to inform her instruction. She is knowledgeable in her subject areas and continually finds creative ways of fostering student learning. She comes to classes well prepared, yet at the same time readjusts her plan if necessary to follow the energy and flow of the students. She builds from her experience as a classroom teacher to bring her subject matter to life, which authenticates her work with pre-service teachers. She establishes strong rapport with her students and has inspired future teachers. Kari-Lynn’s accomplishments were highly praised by both faculty members and students. She is a highly deserving recipient of a UBC Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Award.
- 2005 LLRC Master’s Research Award
Congratulations to the 2005 Winners of the LLRC Master’s Research Award
The recipient of the 2005 Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada Masters Research
Award is Kari-Lynn Winters of UBC. Kari’s thesis, Developing an Arts-Integrated Reading
Comprehension Program for Less Proficient Grade Three and Four Students, was selected
from a pool of 17 submissions representing all the regions of Canada. She was unable to
attend the award presentation, but UBC’s Dr. Rob Tierney accepted the award on her behalf at
the LLRC Annual General Meeting held on May 28th at the University of Western Ontario. Dr.
Tierney spoke warmly about the richness of research and about Kari’s commitment to the field
both as a researcher and as a literacy educator. Congratulations to Kari and to Marlene McKay
of Brandon University and Tara-Lynn Scheffel of the University of Western Ontario whose
names were also shortlisted for the award. [see pdf]
Bio for media use
The following short bio is prepared for media use and may be copied without formal request. Please see more at author bio.
Kari-Lynn Winters is a picture book author, poet, and performer. She enjoys being in the classroom in any capacity, as a presenter, a teacher, or as a student. She currently attends the University of British Columbia as a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the Language and Literacy Department.
Before graduate school, Kari-Lynn-Lynn taught in North Carolina for three years and in Toronto for two years. She holds a teaching degree from the University of Toronto for children ages 3-13. She is also a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, where she earned a certificate in technical theatre.
Orca Book Publishers recently published Kari-Lynn’s first picture book, Jeffrey and Sloth (2007), a tale about a boy who has writer’s block and the imaginary creature he creates to help him write his story. Two other picture books have been accepted for publication.
Website articles
From writingcentre.ubc.ca:
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Kari-Lynn Winters at a book-signing
for Jeffrey and Sloth |
In the spring of 2007, Orca Books published Kari-Lynn Winters’ Jeffrey and Sloth, a picture book about the daunting task of overcoming writer’s block. Her next book, Runaway Alphabet, will be published by Simply Read Books. And another story that she developed in our Children’s Book Workshop - with the working title Chicken on Skis - has been accepted for publication by Raincoast Books.
Kari says she didn’t always consider herself a writer - that, in fact, she was a reluctant writer in elementary school who found composition a struggle. It was her love of storytelling and children’s literature that led Kari to eventually to try her own hand at writing. She affirms that her love of children’s literature continues to grow as she “practices writing as a reader and reading as a writer.”
In her “spare time” Kari is also a PhD candidate, graduate teaching assistant, children’s theatre performer and mother of two. You can read more by and about Kari on her web site.
Newspaper articles
(see also newspaper reviews of Jeffrey and Sloth)
St. Thomas (Ontario) Times Journal, June 30 2007
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