• Embodied pedagogies
• Authorship as assemblage
• Body image
• Children’s literature
• Drama/Dance and the arts in education
• Multimodal Authorship
• Arts integration
• Literacy
• Teacher education
• Embodied literacies
• Critical positioning
• Immigrant education
• Mental Health
• STEAM

Profession Accreditation

• OCT certificate with Drama and Dance Specialist; Special Education Specialist
• ECE

Professional Affiliations

• Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
• Canadian Children’s Book Centre
• International Literacy Association
• Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators, and Performers
• Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada
• Writer’s Union of Canada

Winters, KL, Wiebe, N., & Saudelli, M. (In press) “Writing on writing: Collaborative writing and photographic analyses from an academic writing retreat”. In Simmons, N. (Ed.) Collaborative critical communities: Academic writing partnerships, collaborations, and retreats. New Milton, CT: Sense Publishers.

Winters, KL., Griffin, S., Vietgen, P., McQueen-Fuentes, G., McLauchlan, D., & Rowsell, J. (In Press) “Communities and constructions of zones: Inclusions of diverse learners through artistry and literacy.”  In Andrews, B. (Ed.) Perspectives on arts education research in Canada. 

Winters, KL., & Code, M. (In Press). “I’m Perfect/imperfect: Dramatic explorations of bodies and embodied literacies in a Canadian community”. In Rowsell, J. (Ed.) The art and craft of literacy pedagogy. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.

Winters, KL. (In Press). Behind the scenes: A Children’s book publishing assemblage. Teaching and Learning.

Ratkovic, S., Winters, KL.,  Dénommé-Welch, S.,  Longboat, C., Di Cesare, D., Spratt, B., Miranda, H., Kitchings, S., Magowan, C., Taylor, M., Rana, B., Vinod, S., Yang, S., Ahmed, N., Scott-England, S., Vatghese, A., Brant, J., Sault, V., & Tian, S. (2019). Five poems: Artistic pedagogy of the migrant soul. Teaching and Learning, 12 (1), 15-31.

Jaipal-Jamani, K., Figg, C., Collier, C., Gallagher, T., Winters, KL., & Ciampa, K. (2018). Developing TPACK of university faculty through technology leadership roles. Italian Journal of Educational Technology.

Winters, KL. & Sherritt-Fleming, L. (2018). Hungry for Science: Poems to Crunch On. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

Winters, KL. (2018). On my swim. Vancouver, BC: Tradewind Books.

Griffin, S., Rowsell, J., Winters, KL, Vietgen, P., McQueen-Fuentes., McLauchlan, D. (2017). A reason to respond: Finding agency through the arts. International Journal of Education and the Arts, 18(25), 2-23.

Winters, KL. & Code, M. (2017). I’m Perfect/imperfect: Dramatic explorations of bodies and embodied literacies in a Canadian community. Pedagogies, 12(1), 108-129.

Winters, KL.  (2017). On my bike. Vancouver, BC: Tradewind Books.

Winters, KL. (2017). On my skis. Vancouver, BC: Tradewind Books.

Winters, KL. (2017). Best Pirate. Toronto, ON: Pajama Press.

St. Kateri/NCDSB/Niagara Conservation Authority Storywalk (2018-2019)
Source/Type: Dean’s Discretionary Fund (Co-researcher with Dr. Joe Barrett)
Amount: $1,500

Independent Study-EDUC 5P98 (2017-2018)
Source/Type: Experiential Course Development Grant
Amount: $1706

Festival of Readers (2017-2018)
Source/Type: Writers’ Union of Canada
Amount: $1,000

Painting on the Walls of the Cave: Building Inter-Cultural Understandings Through Artistry  (2017-2018)
Source/Type: Multicultural Community Capacity Grant Co-investigator with Dr. Snezana Ratkovic
Amount: $2,280

Public Readings Grant (2016-2017)
Source/Type: Writers’ Union of Canada
Amount: $5,000

Mapping Futures: Building Capacity through Arts-Based Approaches to Literacy (2016-2017)
Source/Type: Cochrane Foundation Grant, Co-investigator with Dr. Jennifer Rowsell (PI)
Amount: $20,000

• PJI Drama Education (Concurrent) EDUC 8P33 and EDUC 8P23
• PJI Drama Education (Consecutive) EDBE 8P48 and EDBE 8P58
• PJI Dance Education (Consecutive) EDBE 8P48 and EDBE 8P58
• PJ Language Arts (Concurrent) EDUC 8P30
• PJ Language Arts (Consecutive) EDBE 8P34