Kimberly McDavid Schmidt

Clinical Associate Professor; Department Chair, TLS

Faculty
Morgridge College of Education

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Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall, 1999 E. Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80208

What I do

Kimberly McDavid Schmidt is the Teaching and Learning Sciences chair and a Clinical Associate Professor, where she teaches literacy and culturally and linguistically diverse learner courses and focuses on the integration of culturally responsive, sustaining, and evidence-based literacy practices in courses and classrooms in schools.

Professional Biography

Kimberly McDavid Schmidt teaches culturally relevant and evidence-based literacy methods courses and culturally and linguistically diverse courses. Her research centers on culturally responsive and sustaining teaching practices in literacy and in culturally and linguistically diverse education, and teacher identity development and well-being in relation to recruitment and retention.

Degree(s)

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction- Literacy Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016
MA, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Colorado Denver, 1998
BA, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Drake University, 1994

Licensure / Accreditations

Elementary Professional Teaching License

Professional Affiliations

American Education Research Association
Literacy Research Association

Research

Kimberly McDavid Schmidt conducts qualitative and multimodal research focused on sociocultural, critical, and embodied literacy perspectives. She situates her research in classrooms with a focus on culturally responsive literacy practices.

Featured Publications

Schmidt, K. (2025). Gender and Literacy. In SAGE Encyclopedia of Education and Gender. SAGE Publications.

Schmidt, K., Ghosh, E., & Banerjee, R. (2023). Inclusive early literacy Practices for Emergent Bilinguals . In Inclusion and diversity: Communities and practices across the World. Routledge Publishing.

Beucher, R., & Schmidt, K. M. (2021). Digital storytelling, Black masculinity, and contending with racial capitalism. In B. J. Guzzetti (Ed.), Genders, cultures, and literacies: Understanding intersecting identities (pp. 76-90). London, UK: Routledge.

Schmidt, K. M., & Beucher, R. (2020). Affective Intensities: Emotion, Race, Gender, and the Push and Pull of Bodies. English Teaching: Practice and Critique/ Emerald Insight.

Schmidt, K., & Beucher, R. (2018). Embodied literacies and the art of meaning making. Pedagogies: An International ournal, 13(2), 119-132. Retrieved from https:// https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/eqTYcAxihgh5nHs34aaH/full

Presentations

Schmidt, K. (2024). More Than Talk: Future Educators' Dialogic Literacy Practices. . American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia: American Education Research Association .

Schmidt, K. (2023). Teacher Identities: Building Awareness, Empathy, and Critical Consciousness through Literature. American Association for the Teaching of Curriculum Annual Meeting. Kentucky: American Association for the Teaching of Curriculum.

Awards

Faculty Career Champion Nomination (2019), University of Denver
Faculty Career Champion Nomination, University of Denver
2018 Shelby Wolf AERA Literature SIG Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Literature, AERA Literature Sig