Kate Winn

Kate Winn is a primary-grade teacher and teacher educator with approximately 25 years of classroom experience, specializing in evidence-based literacy instruction. Based in Ontario, Canada, she has taught kindergarten at St. Luke Catholic Elementary School and has been a teacher in the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board since 2000. Winn is a structured literacy presenter and content lead at ONlit.org, and she provides professional development for educators on research- and evidence-based literacy practices beginning in the early years.

Winn is the co-author of Reading Assessment Done Right: Tools and Techniques for Data-Driven Instruction, part of Scholastic’s Science of Reading in Practice series, written with Dr. Stephanie Stollar. She is also a writer with numerous national magazine credits and serves as co-producer and host of the Reading Road Trip podcast for the International Dyslexia Association Ontario, where she shares practical insights on literacy instruction and assessment.