About Me

I am a proud, former public school teacher. As mentioned, I have taught at the elementary and middle school level in culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse communities as a classroom teacher and as a K-5 instructional coach. 

I earned my Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I also have a B.S. in elementary education and a M.A. in teaching from Ohio University and George Mason University respectively. I also hold a current Ohio teaching certificate (grades 1-8).

In my position as Director of the OHIO Center for Equity in Mathematics and Science, I spend a lot of time in classrooms and schools collaborating alongside teacher-colleagues with children and families in various outreach and working with others on research projects. I am also an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education in the Early Childhood-Elementary Education program where I teach diversity courses and mathematics methods courses, as well as graduate courses in areas such as practitioner inquiry/action research and STEM education. 

My scholarship centers on equity, diversity, justice, and critical literacies and pedagogies in early childhood and elementary education, teacher education, and mathematics education. I am especially interested in how to collaborating with teachers to take up critical pedagogies and understanding how we can come to develop more progressive, child-centered, and humane stances and practices towards teaching, learning, and schooling.

I have received over 20 grants from federal, state, and local agencies, including the National Science Foundation. My current projects include the Connecting Math to the Real World project and the Rally for STEM Noyce Teaching Fellowship project.

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