Here are some announcements or pieces of news about what I’m doing or how I’m progressing in my work.

As of 2017, I am no longer directly teaching in the classroom.  I have taken a full-time position at Avenues: The World School where I am the Senior Academic Advisor for Mathematics and oversee curriculum, pedagogy and professional learning for the mathematics program globally, including online.  This is a very exciting time for me where I am moving into new territory and learning a lot about teacher education.

The IJPBL was so excited about the response to the issue on Interactional Research that they have decided to make it a book.  So I will have my first book chapter, which is really exciting!

An article that I had published in the Interdiscplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning special issue on Interactional Research titled, A Framework for Problem-Based Learning: Teaching Mathematics with a Relational Problem-Based Pedagogy, now has 1,643 downloads since October 2016.  Thanks to all my readers!

Currently, I am working on research that includes whether metacogniive journaling encourages the ownership and agency that I hope that it does.  I’ve done a pilot study looking at pronoun use in student writing in the many journals I have from students.  I’ll be reporting on this at NCTM Annual in April.

I am considering working with Robert Kaplinsky’s Grassroots Workshops to move my online courses to a better platform.  This would be a change for me, but I believe it might be the next best move in order to reach the most teacher need.

As of September 2017, I am working as a Learning Experience designer for Avenues Online in the Research & Development Department of the Tiger Works Research Department of Avenues: The World School.  This is the first time in 25 years I’m not directly teaching the classroom, so it’s a huge change for me.  I am keeping my foot in the classroom my doing instructional coaching, curriculum writing and mentoring at the New York City Campus of Avenues as much as possible in order to be connected to a brick-and-mortar school.  The opening of the Sao Paolo campus in September 2018 will also be an exciting opportunity to continue the PD work I’ve done with teachers in my career.

The 2016 PBL Math Summit was a HUGE success.  So much networking, successful PD, getting to know new people and wonderful, wonderful speakers.  Thank you to Brian Lawler and Brian Marks for their great, insightful talks.

On April 24, 2013 I successfully defended my dissertation entitled “Dismantling the Birdcage: Adolescent Girls Attitudes Towards Mathematics with a Relational Pedagogy in a Problem-Based Environment.”  So wonderful that I am graduating!

On December 20, 2012, I submitted the rough draft of my dissertation!  I am so excited that I am one step closer to my goal of graduating in May.  Hopefully, I am on track and will be defending by the end of this school year.  Wish me luck!

I am so excited and honored to be the key note speaker for the ISOMA conference in Toronto, Canada next January. I have so many friends and past participants up in the Toronto area that I am eager to visit and speak up there. It will be a wonderful trip – can’t wait!

Please look for my article that will be published in the December/January issue of NCTM’s Mathematics Teacher that is a follow-up on the work we did on the PBL curriculum at my old school.

For a combination of personal and professional reasons, I have decided to make the move from my current school to Deerfield Academy this fall. This was a complex decision for me and this year will be one of transition to my new place of work while I complete my dissertation research and writing.

As of January 2010, I was officially accepted into Doctoral Candidacy and am working on the research for my dissertation study. The dissertation proposal that was accepted is entitled “Investigating the Relationship between Adolescent Girls’ Attitudes towards Mathematics and Learning Mathematics in a Relational Problem-Based Learning Environment”

In October 2010, a nice article was published about me in a local paper: October, 2010. Albany Business Review