Areas of Interest

• Mathematical thinking and learning.
• Teacher education and professional community (especially in mathematics).
• Studying schools as institutional settings of teaching and learning.
• Mathematics curricula and assessment.
• Informal learning environments.

Keyword Interest

• Teacher and Student Learning
• The Institutional Setting of Schools
• Teacher Professional Community
• Informal Learning Environments
• Rock 'n' Roll

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Studying teacher learning, instructional leadership and the impact of professional development within the institutional setting of schools.

Project:
Designing a study to test for empirical evidence of the effectiveness of a 1st grade math tutoring program.

Project:
Examining a middle school math teacher's experience of becoming a student at her school for one entire week.

Project:
Studying children’s learning in the world of skateboarding.

Former Experience

• High School mathematics teacher, Memphis City Schools, 2002-2005.
• High School mathematics teacher, Fayette, MO 1997-2002.

Education

• M.Ed. (2001): Education, Central Methodist University
• B.A. (1997): Mathematics, Graceland University