Kathy Powers, an adjunct instructor at the University of Central Arkansas and a UCA alumnus,was named the 2010 Arkansas Teacher of the Year.
Powers has taught a graduate course in reading instruction for the College of Education Department of Early Childhood and Special Education since 2006. She is a fifth- and sixth-grade literacy teacher at Raymond and Phyllis Simon Intermediate School in Conway.
Powers earned her National Board Certification in 2006 and was named the Simon Intermediate Teacher of the Year and the Conway Public Schools District Teacher of the Year for 2010-2011.
Powers received her undergraduate degree in education and sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Powers taught five years in the Chapel Hill School District she then moved to Conway in 1998 and received her master degree in reading instruction with a reading specialist endorsement from UCA in 2003.
She is a member of the International Reading Association and the National, Arkansas, and Conway Education Associations. Powers has received several grants and presented at the International Reading Association Annual Conference. In addition, she has published articles in two reading journals: Reading Improvement and The Reader.
