简介

Kristi Holmstrom earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan in 2005 after teaching elementary school for 12 years. Her areas of specialty include instructional coaching, teacher collaboration, and supporting the development of more complex instruction through the deliberate organization of resources, structures, and conditions in schools to promote teacher learning. While teaching, she designed and implemented a teacher collaboration program that has continued for nearly a decade to function as a key school structure for improving instruction, and was also the focus of her dissertation work. She works at U-M as a research investigator and senior lecturer and teaches in the Masters in Urban Pedagogy Program for Teach For America Detroit corps members. She is a qualitative researcher who worked on the Study of Instructional Improvement from 2003-2008, has worked on various Teacher Education Initiative committees, and on projects for Developing an Integrative Assessment System for Elementary Teacher Education (DIAS) and the study of Michigan's Statewide System of Support for High-Priority Schools (Mi-SSOS). Holmstrom has taught the introductory course for the elementary undergraduate teacher education program, the professional seminar for first-year educational studies doctoral students, and instructional leadership and instructional coaching for the master’s in policy and leadership program.