Aleksis Kincaid

Strategies to Improve Reading (STIR), Michigan
Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Middle Schools (PRISMS), Texas
Aleksis Kincaid, PhD, is the partnership director and principal investigator for the Strategies to Improve Reading (STIR) partnership in Michigan and one of the authors of the Providing Reading Interventions in Middle Schools (PRISMS) toolkit for REL Southwest. A senior researcher at AIR with over 10 years of experience, Dr. Kincaid is the principal investigator of Read & Achieve, a national study of a middle school reading intervention, leads the review of academic screening and progress monitoring tools submitted to the National Center on Intensive Intervention, and provides technical assistance and training to states and school districts on academic assessment adoptions aligned with state legislation. Dr. Kincaid holds a doctorate in educational psychology with an emphasis in school psychology from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.