Kristin Keane

Kristin Keane, PhD, directs and manages partnerships in a number of research studies in the Language to Literacy Lab in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Her research focuses on literacy development and instruction in elementary schools, specifically the ways multimodal, digital, and critical literacies can be used to drive equity-centered pedagogies in classrooms to enhance engagement, comprehension, and dialogic discussion of varied types of text. Prior to her work at Stanford, Dr. Keane led a network of literacy coaches, served as a literacy staff developer, and worked in California classrooms. She has taught in both the University of San Francisco’s and Stanford's teacher education programs. A mixed methodologist, Dr. Keane has published a number of observational and meta-analytic studies pertaining to literacy practice and development in leading education journals.