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Tim Boerst, tboerst@umich.edu

Timothy Boerst is a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Education. In 15 years of elementary school teaching, Tim earned and renewed National Board Certification as a Middle Childhood Generalist, held multiple leadership positions in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and developed scholarship focused on mathematics teaching practice through the Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics at U-M and the Carnegie Foundation. He studies teacher preparation and professional development, working in program and course design, teaching mathematics methods courses, and leading projects funded by NSF and IES focused on creating professional development materials and assessments of teaching practice. Tim has been heavily involved in the redesign of the U-M elementary teacher education programs, currently serving as assessment coordinator for the programs. He earned a Ph.D. in teacher education and a master's degree in mathematics education from U-M.

 

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Kara Suzuka, ksuzuka@umich.edu

Kara Suzuka is a research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Education. Her research centers on the development of resources for the study and improvement of teaching and teacher education, including the ways in which records of practice and technology can be used as tools for systematic inquiry and professional learning. She was the co-principal investigator for the mod4 materials development project and is principal investigator for the Dev-TE@M project. Both projects share a focus on creating educational materials for elementary teachers that are designed to help teachers further develop their mathematical knowledge and skills for teaching. She is also the projects director for the Brandon Center Digital Archive, a repository focused on bringing together multimedia records of teaching and learning practices and making them available for education and research. Her Ph.D. in curriculum, teaching, and educational policy is from Michigan State University.

 

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Deborah Loewenberg Ball, deborahball@umich.edu

Deborah Ball is William H. Payne Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, and dean of the School of Education, at the University of Michigan. Ball's work draws on her many years of experience as an elementary classroom teacher and teacher educator. Her research focuses on mathematics instruction, and on interventions designed to improve its quality and effectiveness. Her research groups study the nature of the mathematical knowledge needed for teaching and develop survey measures that have made possible analyses of the relations among teachers' mathematical knowledge; the quality of their teaching; and their students' performance. Of particular interest in this research is instructional practice that can intervene on significant patterns of educational inequality in mathematics education. In addition, she and her group develop and study opportunities for teachers' learning.

 

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Hyman Bass, hybass@umich.edu

Hyman Bass is the Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education at the University of Michigan. His mathematical research publications cover broad areas of algebra, with connections to geometry, topology and number theory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bass was president of the American Mathematical Society, and of the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction. He has been collaborating with Deborah Ball and her research group at the University of Michigan, since 1997, on the mathematical knowledge and resources entailed in the teaching of mathematics at the elementary level. He is particularly interested in the teaching and learning of mathematical proof and proving in the early grades.

 

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Aileen Kennison, kennison@umich.edu

Aileen Kennison is the Dev-TE@M project manager. From 2005-2012, Aileen worked as a school administrator and a teacher at Bellflower Middle/High School in Bellflower, California. Before becoming the assistant principal of Bellflower Middle School, she taught 10th grade modern world history and 11th grade United States history. She also served as a mentor teacher to new teachers as well as a master teacher and supervisor of students completing their student teaching at California State University, Long Beach. She has a master's degree in educational administration and a Bachelor's degree in history.

 

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Yaa Cole, yaacole@umich.edu

Yaa Cole is a graduate student in mathematics education at the University of Michigan. She received her Bachelor's degree in mathematics education at the University of Cape-Coast in Ghana and her master's degree at the University of Vermont. Upon completion of her master's degree she worked for four years as the Program Manager and Field Mentor for the Vermont Mathematics Initiative at the University of Vermont. In that position, she worked with elementary school teachers enrolled in a masters level program and provided guidance as they translated their new mathematics learning into good teaching practices. Her current research interests include the study of mathematical knowledge and skills needed for teaching at the elementary level, the preparation of pre-service mathematics teachers, teacher knowledge, and the professional development of elementary mathematics teachers.

 

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Douglas H. Clements, Douglas.Clements@du.edu

Douglas H. Clements is the Kennedy Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning and Professor at the University of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Doug has published over 125 refereed research studies, 18 books, 80 chapters, and 300 additional publications on the learning and teaching of early mathematics; computer applications; creating, using, and evaluating research-based curricula; and taking interventions to scale, mostly with colleague and wife Julie Sarama. He served on the U.S. President's National Mathematics Advisory Panel, the Common Core State Standards committee, and the National Research Council’s Committee on early mathematics, and is and co-author each of their reports. Additional information can be found at http://du.academia.edu/DouglasClements, http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Douglas_Clements/, and http://portfolio.du.edu/dclemen9

 

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Julie Sarama, Julie.Sarama@du.edu

Julie Sarama is Kennedy Endowed Chair in Innovative Learning Technologies and Professor at the University of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. She has taught high school mathematics and computer science, gifted, and early mathematics. She directs 6 projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences and has authored over 50 refereed articles, 4 books, 30 chapters, and 20 computer programs, many with colleague Doug Clements. Her research interests include children's development of mathematical concepts and competencies, implementation and scale-up of educational interventions, professional development models’ influence on student learning, and implementation and effects of software environments. Additional information can be found at http://portfolio.du.edu/jsarama

 

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Douglas Van Dine, Douglas.VanDine@du.edu

Douglas W. Van Dine worked for 18 years in public education, 15 as a middle and high school mathematics teacher and 3 as a building administrator. He recently completed his dissertation on the development and evaluation of a learning trajectory for volume measurement in young children. Dr. Van Dine is currently on staff at the University of Denver in the role of Project Director for the James C. Kennedy Institute for Educational Success and oversees the work of two, NSF-funded projects with approximately 20 Graduate Research Assistants. Previously, he served three years as project director at the University at Buffalo, SUNY for an NSF-funded longitudinal study of learning trajectories for length, area, and volume measurement. He has presented at numerous national conferences on learning trajectories for geometric measurement and has provided professional development for teachers on mathematics learning trajectories to primary and elementary teachers and administrators across the country, including Portland (ME), Des Moines (IA), Diboll (TX), Denver (CO), Buffalo (NY) and New York (NY).

 

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Dev-TE@M Staff and Associates

Kristine Auwers, kauwers@umich.edu

Stephen Ratkovich, ratkovs@umich.edu