Current Activities and
Projects
Professional Activities
and Committees (Selected)
Other Professional Activities
(Selected)
Presentations and Workshop Talks
(Selected)
Continuing Education
Activities (Selected)
Professional
Memberships
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Current Activities and
Projects
- AP Statistical Education Workshops
- Coordinator of Bellaire High School's Science
and Mathematics Internship Program
- Faculty Consultant for College Board AP
Statistics
- Grader AP Statistics examinations
- Rice University CRPC Project
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Professional Activities and
Committees (Selected)
- Advanced Placement Statistics Committee:
Educational Testing Service, (a memeber of the committee that
developed the syllabus, teachers guide, and AP exams in statistics
for College Board), 1993-1998.
- Curriculum Writer: Realignment of the IB
curriculum grades 9 - 12, June, 1997, Bellaire High
School.
- Advanced Placement Statistics Task Force
Committee: College Board committee to determine the need and
feasibility for developing an AP Statistics Examination,
1992-1993.
- Mathematics Achievement Committee: Educational
Testing Service, (write, edit and set guidelines for the College
Board Achievement SAT - Level I and Level II Mathematics Exams)
1987 - 1992.
- Advisory Board-Steering Committee: Rice
University School Mathematics Project, 1986-1994.
- National Science Foundation Grant Proposal
Committee: Read and made recommendations for the selection of
projects for NSF Teacher Enhancement Grants, 1990.
- American Statistical Association Statistical
Graphics Committee: Set standards for the national graphics poster
competition for students grades K-12, 1989-1990.
- Department Chair: Bellaire High School
Mathematics Department, 1982-1989.
- President: Houston Council of Teachers of
Mathematics, 1984-1986.
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Other Professional Activities
(Selected)
- Advanced Placement Reader - Statistics: Grader
for the 1997,1998 Advanced Placement Examination in Statistics.
- Article Author in Math of the States:
Lessons, Strategies, and Ideas from Presidential Awardees in
Mathematics, Gary Froelich, Editor, COMAP, 1996, Lexington,
MA.
- Author Team, Data Analysis and Statistics
Across the Curriculum, NCTM Addenda Series, grades 9-12,
1992.
- Co-author, Article in ComMuniCator, California
Mathematics Council Journal, "Sunflower Seeds Stripes", 1992.
- Awarded: Tandy Technology Scholar in the Tandy
Technology Scholars program for outstanding
Mathematics/Science/and Computer Science Teachers,
1995.
- National Science Foundation Presidential Award
For Excellence in Mathematics Teaching, 1989-1990.
- Awarded: Teacher of the Year, Selected
outstanding teacher of Bellaire High School,
1989-1990.
- GTE Grant: Growth Incentive for Teachers grant
to integrate science and mathematics curriculum,
1987-1988.
- Curriculum Writer: International Baccalaureate
Mathematics Curriculums, 1982,1988, 1997.
- Steering Committee: Site Based Management
Committee, Bellaire High School, 1992-1993.
- Member, Honors /Scholarship Committee:
Bellaire High School, 1980-1992.
- Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Bellaire
High School, 1980-1988.
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Presentations and Workshop Talks
(Selected)
- Workshop Leader: Presented a one week workshop
for College Board on AP Statistics at Rice University, July, 1997,
1998, Houston, TX.
- Speaker: 1998 Annual Joint Statistical
Meeting, August, 1998. Topic: AP Statistics in the High School
Curriculum.
- Workshop Leader: Presented a one day workshop
for College Board on AP Statistics at Rice University (RUSMP one
day conference), September, 1997, 1998, Houston, TX.
- Workshop Leader: Presented at two day workshop
for College Board on AP Statistics, October, 1997, Dallas, TX.;
1998, Tulsa, OK; 1998, Arlington, TX.
- Speaker: Conference for Houston ISD -
Southwest District Summit, Houston, TX, January, 1998, Topics: "
Curvillinear Data; What Does One Do?"; "The Three W's of Advanced
Placement Statistics".
- Workshop Leader: Presented a one day workshop
for College Board on AP Statistics at TCU University, July, 1997,
Ft. Worth, TX.
- Workshop Leader: Presented a one day workshop
for College Board on AP Statistics, September, 1997, Ft. Worth,
TX.
- Speaker: Conference for the Advancement of
Mathematics Teaching (CAMT), Houston, TX, August, 1997, Topic: "
The AP Test: The questions, the Grading, and the
Rubric".
- Workshop Leader: Presented a three day
workshop for Ft. Worth ISD on AP Statistics, July, 1996, Ft.
Worth, TX.
- Workshop Leader: Presented a one day AP
Statistics workshop, Rice University, July, 1996, Houston,
TX.
- Panel Member: Teacher workshops on AP
Statistics, Vancouver, B.C., 1996; Tampa, FL., 1997.
- Panel Member: AP Statistics National
Teleconference, March, 1996; Hartford, CT.
- Speaker: National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics Southern Regional Conference, Houston, TX, October,
1995, Topics: "The College Board's Advanced Placement Statistics
Test, May, 1997" and "Data Analysis and Modeling in Algebra I and
II".
- Speaker: Advanced Placement Conference,
October, 1995, Irving, TX.
- Speaker: National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics national meeting, Boston, Ma, 1995, Topic:
"Mathematics Projects Big and Small--Try Them One, Try Them
All".
- Presenter: AP Statistics Workshop, Clemson
University, 1994.
- Master Teacher: American Statistical
Association one week institute on the teaching of Statistics,
Oregon State University, 1989, Indiana University, 1992, Grinnell
University, Grinnell, IA, 1993.
- Speaker: National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics regional meeting, Columbus, GA, 1993, Topic: "Modeling
Mathematical question, Collecting Data, and Finding
Answers".
- Speaker: National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics national meeting, Nashville, TN, 1992, Topic:
"Modeling Mathematical question, Collecting Data, and Finding
Answers".
- Speaker: Texas Education Agency Social Studies
Supervisors' Conference, Austin, TX, 1990, Topic: "Exit Polling:
Counting the Numbers, a Partnership of Mathematics and Social
Studies".
- Master Teacher: Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation Mathematics one week institute in
Statistics. State University of New York, Purchase, July and
August, 1988. LSU, Shreveport, 1989, Roosevelt University,
Chicago, 1989.
- Speaker: Texas Council for the Social Studies,
Richardson, Texas, 1989, Topic: "Exit Polling: an
Interdisciplinary Activity".
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Continuing Education
Activities (Selected)
- GirlTECH Workshop on technology, gender and
diversity. Rice University, 2 week workshop, summer, 1998.
- Conference on the Teaching of Statistics, one
week workshop in the teaching of workshop leaders on the teaching
of AP Statistics, July, 1995, San Antonio, TX.
- Conference on the Teaching of Statistics,
three day workshop on the teaching of statistics and the use of
technology, June, 1994, Clemson, SC.
- Conference on the Teaching of Contemporary
Secondary Mathematics, North Carolina School of Science and
Mathematics, three week seminar, 1992.
- Calculator Conference, University of Houston,
one week seminar on the use of the TI-81 graphing calculator,
1992.
- Conference on Secondary School Mathematics and
Computers; Phillips Exeter Academy, 1987, 1988.
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation:
Summer Institute on High School Mathematics, University of
Houston, 1987.
- International Baccalaureate Teachers'
Workshop: Armand Hammer United World College of the West,
1987.
- National science Foundation Institute; Houston
mathematics and Science Improvement Consortium (HMSIC),
1986-1987.
- University of Houston: Graduate Work in
Curriculum Reform in mathematics, Summer, 1986.
- Texas A & M University: Graduate Work in
Scotland and England, 1985.
- Woodrow Wilson National fellowship foundation
Mathematics Institute: Princeton University, Statistics and
Computers in Secondary Education, summer, 1984.
- International Baccalaureate Seminar/Workshop:
Denver, Colorado, Fall, 1982.
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