Teacher Education: Faculty

Kristie Dionne, Instructor

Phone Extension: 2181
Email: kdionne@tm.edu
Office: Room 219
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday

Kristie R. Dionne is an elementary education instructor at TMCC. She joined the teacher education department full time in August of 2008. Prior to that, she was an adjunct instructor for the elementary education program.

Kristie grew up in the area, attending school in Rolette, ND where she graduated from high school. Kristie attended Minot State University where she graduated in 1984 with a BS in elementary education, K-8, along with reading and math credentials. She worked as an elementary teacher at Rolette for 23 years before joining TMCC. She also taught Title 1 summer school for 14 years at Rolette Elementary School, working with K-6 students in the areas of math, reading and writing. In 2002 Kristie graduated from UND with a M.Ed with a cognate in reading education. Kristie has an interest in the reading-writing connection so in the summer of 2004 she attended the Red River Valley Writing Project at UND, which is a part of the National Writing Project, to gain more knowledge of the writing process.

At TMCC, Kristie is interested in instructing students using best practices through the reading-writing connection in all of the areas of the curriculum. She would like to prepare the teacher education students to use best practices, in a student centered environment, as they enter their career of elementary education on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.