Kim Skinner

Associate Professor in Literacy and Curriculum Studies
Co-Director, LSU Learning Lab for Dyslexia and Reading Research
Coordinator, Literacy Education

Contact
kskinner@lsu.edu
121D Peabody Hall
225-578-6709

Education
Bachelor's Degree: Elementary Education, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 1986
Master's Degree: Curriculum and Instruction, Cognate: Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 1999
PhD: Curriculum and Instruction: Literacy Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 2012

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Kim Skinner, PhD, is an associate professor of Literacy and Curriculum Studies in the Lutrill & Pearl Payne School of Education at Louisiana State University. At LSU, she is the literacy education coordinator and co-director of the LSU Learning Lab for Dyslexia and Reading Research. Before teaching at the university level, she was the elementary curriculum director for a public school district, a campus reading specialist, and an elementary classroom teacher. Her current scholarship focuses on the social construction of opportunities for learning as part of reading, writing, and language processes; ethnography as a means for understanding literacy events in community and educational settings; and the impact of students’ language and literacy development on their disciplinary understandings.

Skinner, K., Piestrzynski, L., Le, C., Herin, N., Empson, T., Boyle, M., Berryhill, M., & Milam, M. (in press). Generative AI as an instructional tool: A multiple-case study of teachers co-creating differentiated reading texts for children. Journal of Literacy and Technology

Piestrzynski, L., Le, C., & Skinner, K. (in press). Supporting literacy at home: A longitudinal look at a father’s shared reading practices. Journal of Early Childhood Research

Le, C., Skinner, K., Piestrzynski, L., & Nguyen, H. (2025). Literate cultural capital building through father-child shared book reading: An interactional ethnography. Early Childhood Education Journal, 53(8), 3099-3113.

Berryhill, M., Reggio, K., Skinner, K., Piestrzynski, L., & Barrera, E. S., IV (2025). A case study of a new dyslexia course created for university teacher preparation programs. Annals of Dyslexia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the International Dyslexia Association, 75(3), 592-615.

Skinner, K., Pearce, D., Barrera, E.S., IV. (2016). Literacy difficulties of elementary students when solving mathematical word problems. Journal of Literacy Practice and Research, 41(2), 29-36.

Skinner, K. (2015). Acts of thinking: At school, but not during school. Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal, 22(4), 348-363. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10749039.2015.1091701

Nelson, N., Barrera, E. S., IV, Skinner, K., & Fuentes, A. M. (2014). Language, culture, and border lives: Mestizaje as positionality. Culture and Education: Journal of Theory, Investigation, and Practice, 26, 1-41. doi:10.1080/11356405.2014.98121.

Skinner, K., & Robinson, P. (2023). Continuity and transformation in and through the interstices. In P. Hendry, M. Quinn, R. Mitchell, & J. Bach (Eds.), Curriculum histories in place, in person, in practice (pp. 248-258). Routledge.

Nelson, N., Skinner, K., & Barrera, E. S., IV. (2023). The writing-reading nexus: Authors and their audiences. In R. Horowitz (Ed.),  Routledge international handbook of research in writing (2nd ed., pp. 141-162). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429437991

Skinner, K. (2022). Anchoring analysis in rich points. In A. Skukauskaite & J. Green (Eds.), Interactional ethnography: Designing and conducting discourse-based ethnographic research (pp. 242-265). Routledge.

Barrera, E. S., IV, & Skinner, K. (2020). The Carver Cubs summer book club: A reciprocal collaboration between a neighborhood library and a graduate teacher preparation program. In H. R. Cunningham, V. Hines-Martin, & F. M. Cox (Eds.), Library collaborations and community partnerships: Enhancing health and quality of life. Routledge.

Piestrzynski, L., Le, Chloe, & Skinner, K. (2025, Dec.) Supporting literacy at home during father-child shared reading. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA) annual conference. Las Vegas, NV.

Le, C., Dufroc, A., & Skinner, K. (2025, April). Not another paper about problems we can’t solve: Agency in EL practitioners. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference. Denver, CO.

Hudson, R., & Skinner, K. (2024, Nov.). How to mobilize literacy strategies for elementary students to prevent barriers when solving mathematical word problems. Paper presented at the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers Annual Conference. Orlando, FL.

Skinner, K., Lavender, H., Gamborg, L., Nguyen, H., Berryhill, M., & Barrera, E.S. (2024, April). Concerted cultivation re-imagined. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference. Philadelphia, PA.

Nelson, N., Skinner, K., & Barrera, E.S., IV. (2023, Aug.). The writing-reading nexus: Authors and their audiences. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Learning and Education. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Quinn, M., Daspit, T., Ng-A-Fook, N., & Skinner, K. (2022, Oct.). Curriculum histories in place, in person, in practice: Reflections through the LSU Curriculum Theory Project. Paper presented at the Bergamo JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice. Dayton, OH.

Skinner, K., Lavender, H., Connor-Flores, L., Gamborg, L., Nguyen, H., Hudson, R., & Berryhill, M. (April 2022). Out-of-School teaching and learning: Concerted cultivation at an urban neighborhood bike shop. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Skinner, K., Connor-Flores, L., Gamborg, L., Lavender, H., & Nguyen, H. (2019, Sept.). Access to concerted cultivation through mentorship and opportunities to learn at a community bike shop. Paper presented at Oxford Ethnography and Education (E&E) Conference, Oxford, UK.

Skinner, K., Stewart, L., & Stewart, E. (2019, April). Practicing power through language: Relational authority in a community of inquiry. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Toronto, CA.

Nelson, N., & Skinner, K. (2019, Feb.). Issues of language in global and local contexts. Paper presented at Education Beyond Borders: The University of the West Indies Biennial Conference. St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Skinner, K., Parrish, J., Stewart, L., Han, S., Vu, C., Khan, S., Humayun, S., Albornoz, C., Hudson, R., & Noble, J. (2018, April). Intercultural understandings: Diversity, equity, and leadership in an informal learning environment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY.

Nelson, N., Barrera, E. S., IV, & Skinner, K. (2018, March). Mapping and Remapping Language in Global and Local) Context. Paper presented at the annual meeting for Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Mexico City, Mexico.