Primary Investigator (PI) Ron Tzur, professor, provides project leadership and mathematics education expertise, based on prior projects funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). He earned a BS at Haifa University and a MS at the Technion (both in Israel), and PhD at the University of Georgia (Athens). [More]
Co-PI Heather Johnson, associate professor, provides mathematics education expertise. She earned her BS, MEd, and PhD at Penn State. [More]
Co-PI Alan Davis, professor, provides research methodology expertise, based on his work as PI on projects that employed Hierarchical Linear Modeling and qualitative methods. He earned his BA at Pomona College, MAT at Harvard, MA at Western Michigan University, and PhD at CU Denver. [More]
Co-PI Sally Nathenson-Mejia, associate professor, provides expertise in educational and research work at urban schools, based on over 30 years of work as a bilingual educator. She earned her BS at Mankato State University, and MS & PhD at Ohio State University. [More]
Co-PI Maria Uribe, senior instructor, provides expertise in educational work at urban schools, based on over 20 years of service as a bilingual educator—15 years as teacher, five as principal at Goldrick Elementary School in Denver Public Schools and nine years as a coach and liaison with the CU Denver. She earned her BS in Colombia (South America), MS at CU Boulder, and PhD at CU Denver. [More]
Co-PI Michael Ferrara, associate professor in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, provides expertise in ensuring rigorous and comprehensive use of mathematics as well as in teaching Math Content Knowledge (MKT) to teachers. He earned his BS at Stevens Institute of Technology and PhD (mathematics) at Emory University. [More]
Co-PI Xin Wang, provides psychometrics expertise in designing reliable and valid quantitative measures. She earned her BA at Ocean University (China) and MA/PhD (educational psychology) at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).
Graduate Research Assistants (GRA)
Nicola Hodkowski, project manager, GRA, is a doctoral (PhD) candidate in mathematics education at the University of Colorado Denver. She instructs courses at the university for pre-service and existing teachers on their mathematics as way to enhance their pedagogy with elementary students. She has seven years of classroom experience and three years of experience coaching teachers of elementary mathematics. She earned her BA at the University of Colorado-Boulder and her MA at the University of Colorado Denver.
Peter Hornbein, GRA, is a doctoral (PhD) student in mathematics education at the University of Colorado Denver with 27 years of experience in the classroom. He earned BAs at the University of Colorado-Boulder and at San Jose State University, San Jose, California. He earned his MSEd (mathematics education) at the University of Colorado Denver.
Amber Gardner, GRA, is a doctoral (PhD) student in mathematics education at the University of Colorado Denver with 15 years of classroom, counseling and administrative experience in preschool, elementary and middle school environments in rural Colorado. She earned her BS at Colorado Mesa University and MA at Adams State University.
Cody Jorgensen, GRA, is is a doctoral (PhD) student in mathematics education at the University of Colorado Denver with 10 years of classroom experience teaching 3rd grade at Mapleton Public Schools. She earned her BS and MA at the University of Colorado Denver.
Bingqian Wei, GRA, is a doctoral (PhD) student in mathematics education at the University of Colorado Denver. She has three years of experience in the classroom, teaching high school mathematics in China. She earned her BS and MA at Beijing Normal University, China.