Dr. Gunter has served Arkansas education for the past twenty-four years serving as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, middle school principal, educational cooperative teacher center coordinator and director, and assistant superintendent of schools. She was selected as an Arkansas Public School Hero in 1996.

She currently serves as Executive Director of the Arkansas Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. She is, also, a member of the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators. She served as the chair of the administrative sub-committee for administrative licensure and, most recently, was appoint by the Arkansas State Board of Education to the Professional Licensure Advisory Board.

She has been dedicated to the improvement of education through her involvement in state and national initiatives that focus on educational reform. Her current work at the Center for Leadership and Learning is directed toward reforming how future school leaders are prepared in a standards-based program to meet the needs of the ultimate beneficiary of our schools, the students.

Most recently she has been a lead developer and trainer with Learning 24/7 in a Classroom Walk Through Model for Reflective practice for school leaders. She has been actively involved as a trainer for the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators and Arkansas Department of Education in the dissemination of this model in Arkansas.

On the TECH campus, you will find her teaching the instructional leadership block that includes EDLD 6543 Instructional Leadership, EDLD 6402 Working with the Marginal Performer for the building principal and EDLD 7143 School Accountability for the district superintendency. Leading the charge for change statewide and nationally, she is well equipped as she teaches EDLD 6023 Organizational Change and EDLD 7003 Seminar in System Issues. Students will find themselves challenged and enjoying their capstone experience in EDLD 6554, Administrative Internship, under Dr. Gunter’s supervision.