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Dr. Nanci Smith Nanci Smith is currently a full-time consultant in the areas of differentiated instruction and mathematics. Nanci has taught math at the high school level, as well as at Arizona State University. She is Nationally Board Certified in Adolescent and Young Adult Mathematics. She will complete her Ph.D. in mathematics education in the fall of 2006 at Arizona State University.Nanci has been a national and international consultant in Differentiated Instruction for ASCD for six years. She has taught Differentiated Instruction as a Masters course for Arizona State and Northern Arizona Universities, as well as a masters course for teachers at the Singapore American International school. Nanci has developed a CD-based, professional development series for middle school math teachers. She has a linear function unit published in the ASCD book Differentiation in Practice, grades 5 – 9 as well as lessons and activities published in the ASCD book Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom. Nanci’s classroom has been featured in ASCD’s video series on Differentiation, Instructional Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom (2003). |
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Judy Rex Judy Rex is an employee of the Scottsdale School District in Arizona, where she has taught in multi-age elementary classrooms for the past sixteen years. She has also been a professional development facilitator for the Scottsdale School District specializing in differentiated curriculum, instructional strategies for diverse student populations, and positive classroom management. Prior to teaching in Scottsdale, she taught at the middle school level in southern California. In 1995 Judy received the Scottsdale Mayor's Outstanding Teacher of Disabled Children Award for the successful inclusion of such children in her heterogeneous classroom and an award for District Teachers of the Year in 1999. As a member of the ASCD faculty, she has consulted nationally on Differentiated Instruction for over six years. Judy’s classroom is the featured site for the ASCD video A Visit to a Differentiated Classroom.
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Dr. Betz Frederick  Betz Frederick taught has taught elementary and secondary student mathematics and science for 18 years in both the US and overseas. She then got her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. For the past 17 years she has taught math methods for elementary students and general methods for secondary students full time in the College of Education at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition, during this tenure, she taught mathematics in an elementary school to model for her preservice students appropriate methods and content. She has recently retired.Betz has provided professional development services in mathematics and other areas to many school districts throughout her career. She has been active in math education at the state and national level. She was the teacher in a professional development CD on teaching Algebra to elementary students. She has published articles and instructional materials about teaching mathematics, science and computers both in the US and overseas. |
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