West Virginia University Athletics

Kristie Mills has been a member of the Student-Athlete Academic Services staff at West Virginia since September of 2022 as a learning specialist.

In this role, Mills works with student-athletes who have a documented learning disability, providing one-on-one learning support to help ensure their success in the classroom. She also helps the student-athletes improve their reading comprehension and develop writing skills. Working primarily with student-athletes who have a documented learning disability, she provides one-on-one learning support to help ensure their success in the classroom.

Mills came to WVU after serving at West Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, working with blind/low vision and deaf/hard of hearing students. She taught social studies to students in grades 6-12 and incorporated accommodations for each individual student’s exceptionality. She was the faculty senate president, a PLC leader, an LSIC member, testing coordinator, PBIS coordinator, student council sponsor and the National Honor Society sponsor from 2011-22. She also coached cheerleading and goalball.

She also served as a lead teacher from 2014-22, working as part of the administrative team, along with the dean of students and principal. She was a teacher/staff mentor, completed scheduling for teacher duties, coordinated student assistance teams, organized the family engagement committee and chaired the teacher leadership team. She served as the special education designee at WVSDB from 2014-20.

Prior to that, she was an alternative education teacher at Romney Middle School in Romney, West Virginia, for a year and worked as a substitute and homebound teacher in Garrett County, Maryland.

Mills graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Frostburg State and a master’s degree in education leadership from Wheeling University. She earned her associate of arts degree in education from Garrett College and her certification to teach the visually impaired from Marshall.