DreamBox Learning Advisory Board

Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell
Professor of Education, McDaniel College
Past President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell is Professor of Education at McDaniel College, and is widely published with research, articles, and textbooks related to elementary and middle-grade mathematics education. He is one of the writers of the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM, 2000) and of the Curriculum Focal Points for PreK-8 (NCTM, 2006). Dr. Fennell was also a member of the National Math Advisory Panel appointed by President Bush. He currently directs the Elementary Mathematics Specialists and Teacher Leaders Project supported by the Brookhill Foundation and the Cisco Learning Institute.

Dr. Fennell has experience as a classroom teacher, a principal, and a supervisor of instruction. The immediate Past-President of NCTM, he has also served as a member of their Board of Directors, as President of the Research Council for Mathematics Learning and President of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). Dr. Fennell has received numerous honors and awards, including Maryland’s Outstanding Mathematics Educator, McDaniel College’s Professor of the Year, the CASE - Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year for the state of Maryland, and the Glenn Gilbert Award for Leadership from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM). He has also has been the principal investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and the ExxonMobil Foundation. He is an author for Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley enVisionMATH© 2009.

Dr. Catherine Twomey Fosnot
Professor of Childhood Education at the City College of New York
Director of Mathematics in the City

Dr. Fosnot is Professor Emeritus of Childhood Education at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the Founding Director of Mathematics in the City (www.mitcccny.org), an internationally recognized center for professional development located at CCNY and funded by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Fosnot is a well-known author and speaker on mathematics education, and has most recently authored the Contexts for Learning Mathematics series (K-6) and the Young Mathematicians at Work series (Pk-8) with the accompanying professional development materials funded by the National Science Foundation. Two of her books were awarded the “significant contribution” award from the American Educational Research Association and in 2005 she was the recipient of the Teacher of the Year award from CCNY. Early in her career she received the Young Scholar Award from the Association for Educational Communication and Technology for her writing on the topic of technology and learning.

Dr. Margaret Jorgensen
Managing Director at Battelle for Kids

For more than 30 years, Dr. Jorgensen has been a leading authority on assessment for K-12 education. As managing director at Battelle for Kids, a non-profit enterprise focusing on educational reform, she oversees the organization’s communications and research on value-added and growth models for effective instructional practice; and research on achievement measures and non-cognitive measures.

Previously she was CEO of Measure2Learn, LLC, consulting with Teach for America (supporting development of assessment quality strategy); Data Recognition Corporation (online K-12 formative and summative assessment initiatives); Pearson VUE- NCLEX project; SAM Learning; and Princeton Review’s K-12 division, now Core K12 Education.

Dr. Jorgensen is a former Senior Vice President for Product Research and Innovation at Harcourt Assessment. She is also on the Board of the Association of Test Publishers. Dr. Jorgensen earned her Ph.D. in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis from the University of Chicago and holds a Masters of Science in School Psychology. She is the author of two books on innovative assessment and has developed hundreds of criterion-referenced, standards-based, and norm-referenced tests for K-12.

Trish Millines Dziko
Technology Access Foundation, Founder & ED

Trish is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Technology Access Foundation (TAF), which she co-founded in 1996 after a 15 year career in the high tech industry — including over 8 years at Microsoft — as a software tester and developer, a manager, a consultant, and a database designer in such industries as military weapons, business systems, communications, and medical equipment.

TAF’s vision is to make education a priority in underserved communities of color. Serving one child at a time, TAF enhances their educational and professional prospects through the delivery of tools for learning in the 21st century. TAF programs are rooted in project based learning, and are designed to increase problem solving, critical thinking, information synthesis, and communication skills.

In addition to her work at TAF, Trish has served on numerous boards of organizations that focus on children and education. Trish has received dozens of local and national awards for her work educating children of color.

A native of New Jersey, Trish attended Monmouth University and received a B.S. in Computer Science in 1979. Trish received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Seattle University in 2001.

Doug Stein
MemeSpark LLC, Principal

Doug has over 20 years experience in educational software and technology, building successful products and businesses. As VP Development at Learning.com, he led the creation of a SaaS platform serving 2+ million K-8 students with multiple instruction and assessment titles.

Previously, Doug co-founded Addison Wesley Interactive, an innovator in interactive media in higher ed math, physics, engineering, and economics. Doug also served as CTO in 3 financial services and enterprise application software firms and was a Principal Consultant for Microsoft. His early software engineer career was at Wolfram Research (developers of Mathematica) and BBN’s Educational Technology group. Following graduate school, Doug created and led the computer science department at a New England prep school.

Trained as a physicist, Doug’s BA is from the University of Pennsylvania and his MA is from SUNY at Stony Brook. He co-authored Mathematica in the Laboratory, published by Cambridge University Press.