About The Editors

Kristin N. Rainville (she/her/hers) is an award-winning associate professor in the Isabelle Farrington College of Education and Human Development at Sacred Heart University (SHU). Kristin is the director of the Literacy Programs and co-leads the faculty peer coaching initiative at SHU with David Title. The research from this initiative led to the writing of the book Faculty Peer Coaching in Higher Education: Partnerships to Support Improved Instructional Practices (Information Age Publishing, 2023) with David Title and Cynthia Desrochers. Kristin has co-authored two other books: Literacy Leadership in Changing Schools: Ten Keys to Successful Professional Development (Teachers College Press, 2015) and Changing Suburbs, Changing Students (Corwin, 2012). Kristin’s research has been published in journals such as Educational Leadership, School–University Partnerships Journal, The Reading Teacher, Reading, & Writing Quarterly, American Journal of Health Education, The Exchange, and Young Children. Kristin is the lead editor of the Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education book series with Information Age Publishing. Kristin is a PI and Co-PI on several grants totaling over five million dollars. This includes four National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce grants support scholars becoming culturally responsive and sustaining teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in “high needs” school districts. Kristin is a mother of four wonderfully curious children, who not only keep her grounded but curious as well.