About ten years ago I was a mid-career elementary teacher with a passion for engaging, integrated curriculum. However, that integration and engagement never involved math. I blindly followed along lesson by lesson with my curriculum. The truth was I put no effort into my math teaching because I didn’t consider myself a “math person”. I had no idea math could be taught any other way than how I was taught. I could see my students were developing a negative math identity. They didn’t see the connections between math and their lives and their future. Math needed the engaging & integrated curriculum I taught in the rest of my day. 

After studying decades of research that support teaching math a different way– a more engaging, creative, and inspiring way, that I was empowered to teach math differently. 

I’ve spend the last decade developing and testing the Empowered Math Methodin my own classroom and schools of those I coach.  

Over the years, as teachers we’ve felt overwhelmed and complacent in our math teaching. But we can’t wait anymore. . The state of our test scores, and the increasing number of teachers feeling unsupported while watching their students leave their class feeling the same way we did, is the reason we must empower our math community to be the mathematicians our world needs.

This is the work that will change the world. Are you with me?