About Me

I completed my PhD in Mathematics Education at the University of Oxford in 2007. Afterwards I continued to work at the university as a post-doctoral researcher until September 2008 when I returned to full-time teaching. I have over 20 years of teaching experience in a variety of settings, including several years in a number of New York private schools (Mary McDowell Friends School, Saint Ann’s School and The Chapin School). My classes have ranged in composition and size from small homogeneous groups to large mixed ability groups and from 3rd grade to 12th grade.

My teaching and research experiences have given me the opportunity to spend a considerable length of time in mathematics classrooms observing many teachers and students. I have taught multiple levels in courses ranging from primary school and high school level life skills to honors level algebra and Advanced Placement Calculus. In all settings I specialized in offering support and enrichment using both concept-based and inquiry-based teaching approaches. I consider myself to be a practitioner/researcher, combining both theoretical and practical knowledge, and using one perspective to test the ideas offered in the other.