Terry Bergeson	Mastering Math: A State Perspective
	For more than 35 years, Terry Bergeson has worked to ensure public school students achieve an education that truly prepares them for life beyond the classroom. An advocate of teachers, educators and others within the public school system, Dr. Bergeson has continued to focus on what is best for students, and has worked tirelessly to build partnerships between legislators, educators, and parents and community leaders. In 1993, she was appointed executive director of the Washington State Commission on Student Learning. She served as executive director until 1996, when she ran for and was elected as Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction. She took office in January 1997 and continues today as our Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Mary Kay Stein	Maintaining Cognitive Demand
	Mary Kay Stein holds a joint appointment as Professor in the School of Education and Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, both at the University of Pittsburgh. Over the past decade, her research has transitioned from an exclusive focus on classroom-based mathematics teaching and learning to research that seeks to understand how institutional, interpersonal and policy contexts shape teachers’ learning and their practice. Her work has been published in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, the American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Urban Education, and the Harvard Educational Review. She is the lead author of a widely used casebook for mathematics professional development, Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction and co-author of a book on educational reform in San Diego (Reform as Learning).
Jill Britton	Geometry and the Art of M. C. Escher
	Jill Britton is a teacher, consultant, author, and conference speaker who is deeply interested in the teaching of mathematics.  Her teaching experiences include Middle School students in summer camps, conducting workshops for elementary students and/or teachers nationwide, and instructing college level students full-time. She is currently a mathematics instructor at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Jill's strong background in teaching forms the basis for the books she has authored. These books are intended to be resource material to supplement the curriculum with recreationally-focused topics.
Eric (Rico) Gutstein	Reading &Writing the World with Mathematics: Possibilities & Challenges
	Eric (Rico) Gutstein teaches mathematics education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His areas of interest are teaching mathematics for social justice, Freirean approaches to teaching and learning, and urban education. He has taught middle and high school mathematics. Rico is a founding member of Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago) and is active in social movements including Chicago's anti-gentrification struggle. He is an editor of Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers and author of Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice. He currently co-teaches and supports math teachers at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice in Chicago.
Ruth Parker	Working with Parents and Communities In Support of School Mathematics
	Ruth Parker, CEO of the Mathematics Education Collaborative (MEC), has worked with parents, teachers, administrators, business leaders and the public-at-large in communities throughout the country. A former teacher of grades 1 through 9, Parker also taught mathematics methods courses at the University of Oregon from 1980 to 1985. Parker is the developer of mathematics content courses for K-12 teachers, administrators and parents that have received acclaim in communities throughout the country. She has worked extensively in the area of performance assessment in mathematics classrooms. She is the author of Mathematical Power: Lessons from a Classroom (Heinemann, 1992), co-author of the Supporting School Mathematics: How to Work with Parents and the Public series (Heinemann, 2006), and author of numerous articles on mathematics, collaborative learning, and leadership development.
Alan Schoenfeld	Standards, Equity, and the Math Wars
	Alan Schoenfeld is the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education and Affiliated Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. He has organized projects that produce mathematics assessments and produced an analytic model of teachers’ decision-making. An expanding line of inquiry examines issues of equity and diversity, with the goal of making meaningful mathematics truly accessible to all students. Schoenfeld has been concerned with finding productive mechanisms for systemic change and for deepening the connections between educational research and practice. Schoenfeld was lead author for grades 9-12 of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. He was one of the founding editors of Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education, and has served as associate editor of Cognition and Instruction. He has written, edited, or co-edited nineteen books and more than a hundred and fifty articles on thinking and learning.
Tom Seidenberg	What if all the Textbooks Disappeared?
	Tom Seidenberg has been teaching mathematics for 32 years, the last 17 at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. Prior to that, Tom taught for three years at Leavenworth High School in Leavenworth, WA and Eisenhower High School in Yakima, WA. He has been interested in curriculum development and the use of technology to enhance the teaching of mathematics since very early in his career.
Nicholas Jackiw	Discrete Mathematics & The Geometer's Sketchpad
	Nick Jackiw is the Chief Technology Officer of KCP Technologies, and is also the software designer responsible for The Geometer’s Sketchpad®. As one of the founding members of the Visual Geometry Project at Swarthmore College in 1987, he was responsible for the design and development of all of the VGP interactive software. Nick directed Sketchpad product development at Key Curriculum Press from 1990 through 1998, when with others he developed Key Curriculum Press’ software department into a separate company, KCP Technologies, where he presently works.
William Finzer	Realtime Mathematical Modeling of Probe Data with Fathom
	Bill Finzer is Senior Scientist at KCP Technologies where he leads the Fathom Dynamic Data™ Software development team. His experience includes software development, curriculum development, research into programming tools, teacher professional development, classroom teaching, and research on learning statistics. He has been principal investigator of several NSF/SBIR funded projects, most recently "Census Microdata in the Mathematics Classroom.".
Harold Jacobs	Making Geometry Meaningful / Mathematical Snapshots of 2007
	Harold Jacobs has been a speaker at more than 200 national and regional meetings of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and various state and local organizations in the United States and Canada. His books include: Mathematics: A Human Endeavor, Geometry, and Elementary Algebra. Harold was featured in the 1996 101 Careers In Mathematics, published by The Mathematical Association of America. He is also the recipient of the George Polya Award, given by the California Mathematics Council for sustained outstanding mathematics teaching and support of mathematics activities in California, 1997
Crystal Mills	Unfolding the Mathematics of a Pythagorean Box
	Crystal Mills is a retired mathematics teacher and textbook editor who loves to quilt and design wearable art. She became interested in origami while teaching high school mathematics. She co-authored Unfolding the Mathematics of Origami Boxes with Arnold Tubis. Crystal and Arnold met at an Origami Convention in San Diego and recently they collaborated on a book for the fabric/quilt/craft market —Fun with Fabric Folded Boxes. Crystal enjoys traveling and continues to do origami workshops for teachers throughout the country.
James Burnett	Using Visual Models to Develop Basic Fact Strategies
	James Burnett was born and educated in Brisbane, Australia and received his teaching qualifications from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. He recently completed his Master of Education (Mathematics Curriculum) and frequently presents workshops and speaks at conferences throughout Australia, New Zealand and North America. James has authored and co-authored more than 150 mathematics books for teachers and children aged six to twelve. He is currently co-writing a supplemental computation program for Washington State. As President of ORIGO, James strives to lift the profile of mathematics through dynamic teacher in-service and the development of quality research-based materials for the classroom.
Scott Berry	Use and Abuse: Statistics in Sports
	Scott M. Berry received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon (1994) and his BS from the University of Minnesota (1990). He spent five years at Texas A&M University in the Statistics Department.? The last seven years he has been consulting for Berry Consultants, where he has been involved in adaptive Bayesian clinical trial design for pharmaceutical and medical device companies. For eight years he wrote a quarterly column ?A statistician reads the sports pages,? for Chance magazine and occasionally consults for the sports world. Dr. Berry has a wide range of sports related publications, from receiving the 1998 JASA Applied Paper Invited Talk Award to ESPN the Magazine.
Kim Sutton	Finding the Connections with Fractions & Smart Strategies for Subtraction
	Kim Sutton has taught thousands of teachers the joy and excitement of “hands-on” math. Kim’s teaching experience includes over 20 years of classroom teaching, regional math specialist and university instructor. Kim has worked with over 150 districts nationally and internationally as a staff development consultant. A former Associate Director of Project AIMS, Kim has a master’s degree in Mathematics Education. Kim has written many articles about pattern blocks, classroom management and is the author of Math Engineers, Math Focus Activities, Visual Tools, Number Line Workbook, Making Math Books With Children, Powerful Numbers 0-100 and Place Value With Pizzazz. Experience what others have learned – Kim Sutton is a dynamic, extraordinary educator whose enthusiasm and love for teaching are contagious!
Carole Greenes	Algebraic Thinking and Problem Solving: The Dynamic Duo
	Carole Greenes is Dean of the School of Educational Innovation and Teacher Preparation at Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus and Professor of Mathematics Education. She is also the director of the  Practice, Research and Innovation in Mathematics Education (PRIME) Center and director of university-wide math initiativews. Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Greenes was Professor of Mathematics Education at Boston University. She is the author of more than 300 books and programs for students in PreKindergarten through Grade 12, for teachers of those students, and for college students in need of remediation in mathematics. Dr. Greenes is a popular speaker at conferences of mathematics educators. She is a former president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, member of the Steering Committee for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Navigations Series, and issue editor for the NCTM 2008 Yearbook on Algebra and Algebraic Thinking.
Bowen Kerins	New CME NSF Program
	Bowen Kerins is a curriculum designer on the CME Project. Prior to joining the CME Project, Bowen was a high school mathematics teacher for four years, teaching all grades and all levels including low-level Algebra 1 and AP Calculus. Bowen has taught and designed the curriculum for the Park City Mathematics Institute's program for high school teachers since 2001, and was a core advisor on WGBH's Learning Math web site and video series, intended to help teachers learn more mathematical content. Bowen has a BS in mathematics from Stanford University and an MAT in mathematics education from Boston University. He is also a two-time world champion in competitive pinball.
Gail Burrill	Thinking and Reasoning With Data and the TI Nspire
	Gail Burrill was a secondary teacher and department chair in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for over 25 years and spent time as an associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While on leave from the University of Wisconsin, she served as president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and as director of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board. She is now on the faculty at Michigan State University. As an instructor for Teachers Teaching with Technology, she does workshops around the country on using technology in the classroom.
Nat Friedman	The Art and Mathematics of Knots
	Nat Friedman received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in 1964 and joined the U. Albany Department of Mathematics in 1968. He has authored three textbooks and over forty research papers. Nat is the only faculty member at the University at Albany to receive both the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Excellence in Research Award. In 2001 he received an NSF SGER grant to develop knot theory for grades 3-5 and went on to develop knot theory for grades 3-12. On a whim, he enrolled in an adult education sculpture course at the University at Albany in the fall of 1971. It was there that he discovered his love of form and carving, beginning a second career in sculpture. He has organized interdisciplinary conferences relating art and mathematics since 1992. He is the founder and director of the International Society of The Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture (www.isama.org).
Carolyn Felux	Good Questions and Tasks for Math Teaching
	Carolyn Felux is currently Associate Director of Professional Development for Math Solutions Professional Development. For over 20 years, Carolyn has worked with school districts across the country to design and provide K–8 professional development for administrators, teachers, and teacher leaders. She continues to develop her own teaching expertise through ongoing work in classrooms with students and teachers. Prior to joining Math Solutions Professional Development, Carolyn taught in elementary and middle schools. In addition, she was the Project Manager and Mathematics Consultant for the Education Service Center, Region 20, in San Antonio, Texas. Carolyn is co-editor of the popular book The Math Coach Field Guide: Charting Your Course (Math Solutions Publications, 2006)