Dr. Katie Tonore is currently an Assistant Professor and Director of Teacher Education for the School of Education at William Carey University. She has over thirty years of classroom experience and has benefited from a variety of educational opportunities such as serving as literacy coach for the MS Department of Education, Director of Implementation for the Barksdale Reading Institute, graduate and under-graduate coordinator at the University of Southern Mississippi, educational consultant for the MS Center for Education Innovation, Bailey Education Group, CORE and Millenium Educational Systems. Katie is a member of MLA, MsECA, and the Louisiana-MS Board of International Dyslexia Association. Katie and her husband Bobby have three daughters and six grandchildren.

D, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Jackson State University, 2008
Masters, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, University of Southern Mississippi
Bachelor’s, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, University of Louisiana, Monroe