Kate Kinsella, Ed.D., is a teacher educator in the Department of Secondary Education at San Francisco State University. She teaches coursework addressing academic language and literacy development in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. She has maintained secondary classroom involvement by teaching an academic literacy class for adolescent English learners through the University’s Step to College Program. She publishes and provides consultancy and training nationally, focusing upon responsible instructional practices that provide second-language learners and less proficient readers in Grades 4–12 with the language and literacy skills vital to educational mobility. 

Dr. Kinsella is coauthor, with Dr. Kevin Feldman, of Scholastic’s READ 180 Intervention Program interactive teaching curricula called the rBook published in summer 2005. She recently coauthored a research monograph commissioned by Scholastic Inc. addressing the pivotal role of explicit, research-informed vocabulary instruction to close the national achievement gap. She is the program author for Reading in the Content Areas: Strategies for Reading Success, published by Pearson Learning, and the lead program author for the 2002 and 2005 Prentice Hall secondary language arts program Timeless Voices: Timeless Themes. She was coeditor of the CATESOL Journal (CA Assn. of Teachers of ESL) from 2000–2005 and serves on the editorial board for the California Reader. A former Fulbright scholar, Dr. Kinsella has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Marcus Foster Memorial Reading Award, offered by the California Reading Association in 2002 to a California educator who has made a significant statewide impact on both policy and pedagogy in the area of literacy. In 2005 she received the California Department of Education’s Award of Excellence for her contributions to improving the education of immigrant youth throughout the state.

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