Mathematics Education in the Middle Grades Teaching to Meet the Needs of Middle Grades Learners and to Maintain High Expectations: Proceedings of a National Convocation and Action Conferences (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix 2. Biographical Information on Convocation and Action Conference Speakers
Appendix 2. Biographical Information on Convocation and Action Conference Speakers
Pages 189-214
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In 1985, he was named chair of the UCSF Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Alberts has long been committed to the improvement of science education, dedicating much of his time to educational projects such as City Science, a program seeking to improve science teaching in San Francisco elementary schools.
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She has an extensive background in teacher professional development, elementary and secondary mathematics pedagogy, anti instruction in mathematics education at the middle school, high school, and university levels. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America, anti the American E(lucational Research Association.
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His primary teaching, writing and research concerns deal with middle school education, specifically middle school teacher education. He served as editor of the Middle School Journal for the National Middle School Association and authored or edited a number of books on middle school education.
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Doda was the first teacher to keynote the National Middle School Association's annual conference in 1977 anti has keynoted that conference on two additional occasions. She has serve(1 on the Boar(1 of Directors of the National Middle School Association for five years.
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He serves or has served on the editorial boards of nearly a dozen scientific journals and as a member of more than two dozen federal and foundation research and demonstration advisory and grant review panels. He is a fellow of the American Psychological CONVOCATION BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Orthopsychiatric Association.
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He has been the principal at this middle school for the past nine years. Katherine Hart has recently retired from the Chair of Mathematics Education at the University of Nottingham.
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Seaborg Center for Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics, the Ford Foundation/University of Pittsburgh QUASAR project, the NSF/ University of Maryland Teacher Preparation Collaborative, the NSF/San Diego State University Mathematics for Elementary Teacher Preparation Mate CONVOCATION BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS rials Development Project, the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, the NSF/University of Wisconsin Cognitively Guided Instruction Project and many others. In 1993 she received a Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University and the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics Service Award for 1993.
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She is a member of the National Middle School Association, National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, American Association of Colleges for teacher Education. Rasch receive(1 her Ph.D.
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She was the director of the documentation component of the QUASAR Project, a multi-year mi(l(lle school mathematics instructional reform project. The QUASAR research provi(le(1 measures of program implementation at each of the project's six middle schools with a focus on the setup and implementation of mathematics instructional tasks.
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which builds on the research findings of the QUASAR Project. Stein is also a CoPrincipal Investigator of an NSF-funded project to develop mathematics instructional cases for professional development of middle school mathematics teachers.
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She is a member of the National Research CONVOCATION BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Council's Mathematical Sciences Education Board, President-Elect of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, and a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the Mathematical Association of America. Wood is a member of the Program Steering Committee for this Convocation.
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In this last capacity, Ann serves as the co-project director of an NSF Teacher Enhancement Grant involving the implementation of the Connected Mathematics Project in Minneapolis middle schools. She has also trained members of the Minnesota K-12 Best Practice Network and supported the implementation of NSF reform curriculum projects statewide.
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She serves as a Teacher Facilita tor in the First in the Worl(1 Consortium Teacher Learning Network A! Cuoco is Senior scientist anti Director of the Center for Mathematics Education at Education Development ALOE BRA ACTION CON F E RE NC E BIOGRAPH ICAL STATEME NTS
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Doda was the first teacher to keynote the National Middle School Association's annual conference in 1977 an(1 has keynoted that conference on two additional occasions. She serve(1 on the Boar(1 of Directors of the National Middle School Association for five years.
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Prior to this, she taught 7th and Sth grade mathematics at Portland Middle School, Portland, Michigan for nine and a half years. In 1992, her mathematics department received the "A+ for Breaking the Mold" Award from the U.S.
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Her research interests inclu(le: Students' anti teachers' mathematical thinking; the role of examples anti counterexamples in learning mathematics; analysis and enhancement classroom mathematical interactions and discourse; and characteristics and underlying processes fostering the professional development of mathematics teachers and teacher educators. Zaslavsky taught secondary mathematics for 12 years, and has been involved in teaching pre-service and inservice mathematics teachers for the past 15 years.
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He is also the Director for the Princeton Research Institute on Science anti Mathematics Learning, anti Associate E(litor for Mathematical Thinking & Learning: An International Journal. Areas of specialization include research anti assessment on problem solving, learning; instruction in mathematics anti science education, teacher education; computer-based and textbase(1 curriculum (1evelopment for chil(lren anti a(lults; anti research RESEARCH ACTION CONFERENCE BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
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Now, following a career as a research scientist and faculty member, she is focusing on helping un(lerstan how to provide quality science, mathematics, and technology education rejective of current scientific advances and technology trends. Her directorship included coordination of the NSFwi(le program of research in Learning and Intelligent Systems; the Research on Education, Policy anti Practice Program; anti membership in the NSFwide Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence implementation group and in the EHR-wide Technology Integration into Education working group.
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Other activities inclu(le being a member of the e(litorial pane} for Cognition and Instruction, 1995-1999; member of the editorial pane} for {ournalfor Research in Mathematics Education, 1995-1998; member, Mathematical Sciences Academic Advisory Committee of the College Board, 19941997; anti member, National Boar(1 for Professional Teaching Stan(lar(ls (NBPTS) Middle Childhood and Early RESEARCH ACTION CONFERENCE BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
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The QUASAR research provided measures of program implementation at each of the project's six middle schools with a focus on the setup and implementation of mathematics instructional tasks. Based on this work, Stein has published a series of studies on mathematics reform and teacher professional development in highpoverty urban middle schools.
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which builds on the research findings of the QUASAR Project. Stein is also a CoPrincipal Investigator of an NSF-funded project to develop mathematics instructional cases for professional development of middle school mathematics teachers.
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Ball's publications include articles on teacher learning and teacher education; the role of subject matter knowledge in teaching and learning to teach; endemic challenges of teaching; and the relations of policy and practice in instructional reform. Karen Economopou~os is a developer of Investigations in Number, Data and Space, a K-5 mathematics curriculum funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Since he has been at Marquette University, he has received funding for many mathematics education projects, most aimed at improving the professional development of middle school mathematics leachers. Recent projects include the Middle School Teachers' Mathematics Project (MSEMP)
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Prior to establishing HRI in 1987, Weiss was Senior Research Scientist at the Research Triangle Institute. Her activities have included directing several national surveys of science and mathematics teachers; evaluating a number of science anti mathematics education projects anti systemic reform efforts; and providing technical assistance to agencies anti professional organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Science Teachers Association and the Office of Technology Assess ment.
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