Brief Bio

‘Khym’ Goslin is an assistant professor serving the Faculty of Education’s undergraduate and graduate programs. With a focus on leadership and change, Khym enjoys exploring how school leaders guide and direct improvements that impact student learning. His research area includes advancing new perspectives regarding instructional leadership and has developed a constellation framework that helps describe and assess instructional leadership practices. A past teacher, principal, and district administrator Khym is aware of the importance of developing a shared understanding of curriculum and assessment practices. To this end, he has theorized about how the legal system’s tests of integrity can help foster conversations about aligning the intended curriculum of classroom teachers. In his classes, Dr. Goslin uses curriculum mapping processes and Understanding by Design models to shape instructional design. As a presenter, Khym has addressed audiences in Canada and the US on topics including effective instructional leadership, curriculum and assessment that has integrity, backward instructional design methods. Khym is keenly involved in pre-service teacher education at UPEI. 

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 Email: kgoslin@upei.ca