Kristine Kelly

Kristine is the Language & Literacy Coordinator for the MN Adult Education system, where she leads statewide professional development, coaching, and support focused on evidence-based adult literacy instruction and standards-based teaching practices. With 30 years of teaching experience in alternative, adult and higher education, she has extensive expertise in adult reading and writing instruction, standards implementation, high school equivalency, and postsecondary preparation. She is also the ELA content expert for the Minnesota Standard Adult High School Diploma. As an educational consultant and national presenter, Kristine frequently provides workshops, conference sessions, literacy coaching, and instructional support for adult education programs and state systems across the country. Kristine holds an MAEd from Hamline University with concentrations in reading and alternative education, as well as a B.S. in English and a B.A. in Russian Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Hamline with a dissertation focus on studying the landscape of writing instruction in the MN Adult Education system to inform future professional development efforts to increase the quantity and quality of writing instruction. Kristine volunteers as the Book & Resource Editor of the ProLiteracy Adult Literacy Education Research Journal.

As the Language & Literacy Coordinator coordinates work around integration of the MN Adult Education Content Standards, leads the new Content Standards Integration (CSI) Cohort, the ATLAS Writing Study Circle, the ATLAS Teaching Reading to Adults Mini-Cohort and facilitates the MN Language & Literacy Advisory Team (LLATe).