Susan E. L. Kingston

Instructor in Education
BA, Cornell College; MA, University of Chicago

A faculty member in both the School of Education Literacy Testing & Supplementary Instruction Program and the Literacy & Language, Counseling & Development Department, Sue Kingston has over 25 years of teaching and administrative experience in schools and higher education. She joined the SED faculty in 1999 to help initiate the literacy testing program as well as a schoolwide conversation about the teaching of writing. Prior to her appointment at BU, Ms. Kingston was a secondary curriculum coordinator and consultant in Massachusetts and a secondary English teacher in the Fairfax Country,  Virginia, public schools. Ms. Kingston’s current professional interests include the expansion of the teaching and coaching of writing (primarily through the SED Literacy Testing Program’s workshop and tutorial program) and professional development in the field of literacy for secondary schools. An avocational musician, Ms. Kingston has sung with numerous choral groups performing in both the Boston and Washington, D.C., areas.