Kim Lockhart

Kim Lockhart has been an elementary French Immersion classroom educator and Special Education teacher in Kingston, Ontario for over 20 years. She holds a Master of Education degree from Queen’s University, specializing in evidence-based practices that support students with learning difficulties in French as a second language programs across Ontario. In 2019, Kim completed her Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator training and was later certified as a Structured Literacy Classroom Teacher by the Centre for Effective Reading Instruction (CERI). For two years, Kim worked as a Structured Literacy Coach for the International Dyslexia Association of Ontario. In 2022, she was hired by the Ontario Ministry of Education as a Content Contributor to revise the province’s new Grade 1-9 science-based Language Curriculum. While balancing her work as a part-time French immersion classroom teacher and part-time Special Education teacher, Kim has also been working as a part-time course instructor at Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Faculty of Education in the Language, Literacy and Learning Graduate Diploma program for the last two years. Through presentations, webinars, and podcasts, Kim aspires to share reading research with both current and future classroom educators to prepare and empower them to meet all children’s right to read in public education.