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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]

Newspaper Articles

2021

The arts will play an important role as Niagara pulls out of the pandemic, says new research from Brock University.

“The arts need to be continually supported,” said associate professor of educational studies Kari-Lynn Winters.

“The arts do more than what we think they’re doing: they bolster self-confidence and mental wellness, they leverage community building and reconciliation and bring about self-actualization, inclusion and embracing diversities.”

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  • St Thomas Times Journal, August 2011 (read online)

  • “Cobblestone students, guests celebrate their love for reading” The Paris Star, May 2011 By Sylvie Berry:

There were cheers and applause for reading last Thursday at Cobblestone Elementary School.

Nearly 200 students from Grades 1 and 2 at Cobblestone, Agnes Hodge and Burford elementary schools gathered to engage in a series of activities and presentations all focused on literacy and reading.

All the students were celebrating the Blue Spruce awards — part of the Forest of Reading program — which represent a series of books nominated by the Ontario Library Association which then get voted by the students.

“All the students voted on their favourite book from 10 different ones and the book with the most votes receives the Blue Spruce Award,” said Tim Best from Cobblestone Elementary.

Special guests for the day were author Kari-Lynn Winters and author-illustrator Christina Leist.

Winters is an award-winning children’s author, playwright, performer, and scholar. She talked to students about many of her books, including Jeffrey and Sloth, On My Walk (illustrated by Leist) and aRHYTHMetic: A book and a half of poetry about math.

“Reading gives you power and opportunity. Every job and career requires literacy. And Blue Spruce provides children with a voice,” said Winters.

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  • St Thomas Times Journal (December 15 2009):

Winters on roll with new books

Putting pen to paper was like pulling teeth for Kari-Lynn Winters when she grew up in St. Thomas.

Now, pearly whites of children’s literature just flow.

Winters launched her fourth and fifth children’s books on Saturday in St. Thomas.

She’s on a holiday visit home. And she’s on the way — with husband, two children, two cats — from Vancouver and completing her PhD in arts as a way to bolster reading, to St. Catharines and an assistant professorship in teacher education at Brock University.

Winters stopped Saturday at the Talbot Teen Centre with a tickle trunk of props betraying her earlier post-secondary education in technical theatre, for a presentation to a young audience.

“I’m passionate about youth and literature,” she said... (read online)

  • Brief mention in Vancouver Sun, March 24, 2009 (read online)

  • St. Thomas Times Journal (Ontario), April 28, 2009 (read online)

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Kari-Lynn Winters, an associate professor in Brock’s Department of Teacher Education, shows her new book, Best Pirate, to Nathan and Danielle from the University’s Rosalind Blauer Centre for Child Care. Winters shared the story with a group of children from the centre during her book launch on Tuesday, Sept. 19 in Brock’s Instructional Resource Centre.

Abstract: One of the greatest gifts is the opportunity to learn. Many, blessed with rich learning opportunities at home and in school, take this for granted. Many here and around the world are not so fortunate. Gift Days, a picture book by children’s author Kari-Lynn Winters (2012), is a powerful reminder of the limits to educational opportunity and a testament to how caring individuals can give the gift of learning in even the most adverse circumstances. Each of the articles in this volume offers a gift of education to learners and educators.

Read this editorial, and article about Gift Days, at brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/brocked/home/article/view/303.

Interviews
author of buzz bees

Brock assistant professor Kari-Lynn Winters, author of Buzz on Bees, will be at Ball’s Falls Conservation area on Victoria Day to get kids excited about bees. The Community Day event runs all day, and Winters will be there at 1 p.m.