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This page provides additional information on students who have graduated and who have been connected to CPTM, either through funding (*), through work within the project, or through opportunities provided by CPTM.

The entries are organized as follows:
Name
Degree, graduation date, institution
Dissertation title (major professor)
(Comments)
Contact information

Graduated Students

Angel Abney
PhD, December 2007, UGA
(Pat Wilson)
Georgia College and State University;

Daniel Brink
PhD, August 2007, UGA
Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching and Collaborative Coaching for Secondary School Professional Development (Jim Wilson)
Windhoek Afrikaanse Privaatskool in Windhoek, Namibia; dasbrink@gmail.com

Alison Castro
PhD, 2006, UMICH (Mathematics Education)
Planning for Mathematics Instruction: A Study of the Teacher Guide as a Resource (Edward Silver)
University of Illinois at Chicago, IL; amcastro@uic.edu

Lu Pien Cheng
PhD, August 2006, UGA
A School-Based Professional Development Program for Primary School Teachers (Jeremy Kilpatrick)
(Dissertation based on work with teachers from a CPTM partner school district)
National Institute of Education, Singapore; lupien.cheng@nie.edu.sg

Rhonda Cohen*
PhD, 2005, UMICH (Teacher Education)
Examining the Work of Constructing a Representational Context in Elementary Mathematics Teaching (Deborah Ball)
Manchester Essex Regional School District, MA; cohenr@mersd.org

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Douglas Corey
PhD, 2005, UMICH (Educational Studies)
(Deborah Ball)
Brigham Young University, UT; corey@mathed.byu.edu

Ayhan Kursat Erbas
PhD, August 2004, UGA
Teachers' Knowledge of Student Thinking and Their Instructional Practices in Algebra (Jim Wilson)
Middle East Teachnical University, Ankara-Turkey; kursat@gmail.com

Amy Hackenberg*
PhD, August 2005, UGA
Construction of Algebraic Reasoning and Mathematical Caring Relations (Les Steffe)
Indiana University at Bloomington; ahackenb@indiana.edu

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Gooyean Kim
PhD, December 2004, UGA
The Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Two Middle-School Mathematics Teachers (Jeremy Kilpatrick)
(Dissertation site: CPTM partner school district)
University of Missouri--St. Louis; kimgo@umsl.edu

Jake Klerlein*
PhD, August 2006, UGA
Middle Grades Students' Mathematical Play Using Technology Tools (Jim Wilson)
(Dissertation is based on work with teachers and students from a CPTM partner school district)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; jklerlei@iupui.edu

Sarah Ledford
PhD, December 2006, UGA
Teachers Making Sense of a Mathematical Professional Development Experience (Paola Sztajn)
Kennesaw State University; sledfo10@kennesaw.edu

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Lauren Mayhew
MEd, August 2003, UGA

Kathy Morris
PhD, 2003, UMICH (Teacher Education)
Elementary Teachers’ Opportunities for Learning: An Ethnographic Study of Professional Development (Magdalene Lampert)
Sonoma State University, CA; kathy.morris@sonoma.edu

Orin Murray
PhD, 2006, UMICH (Educational Studies)
Investigating Support for Emerging Structures: The Role of Instructional Technology in an Urban School Districts' Reform Effort (Barry Fishman and David Cohen)
University of Michigan, MI; omurray@umich.edu

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Pawel Nazarewicz*
MEd, May 2004, EdS, August 2006, UGA
(Pawel is also a current PhD student.)
Clarke Central High School, Athens, GA; nazarewicp@clarke.k12.ga.us

Kelli Nipper*
PhD, December 2004, UGA
Mathematics Teacher Development: Making Sense of Professional Development (Pat Wilson)
Clayton State University; KelliNipper@clayton.edu

Andy Norton*
PhD, August 2004, UGA
Students' Conjectural Operations (Les Steffe)
Indiana University Bloomington

Judith Reed*
PhD, August 2006, UGA
Secondary Mathematics' Teachers' Adjustment to Teaching Practive in Tracked Classrooms (Denise Mewborn)
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Reston, VA; jreed@nctm.org

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Ginger Rhodes*
PhD, August 2007, UGA
Professional Noticing: How Do Teachers Make Sense of Students' Mathematical Thinking? (Denise Mewborn)
University of Georgia; gar0209@uga.ed

Thomas Ricks*
PhD, August 2007, UGA
The Mathematics Class as a Complex System (Jeremy Kilpatrick)
Louisiana State University; tomricks@lsu.edu

Lisa Sheehy*
PhD, May 2004, UGA
A Poststructural Orientation to Cooperative Learning Using Student Voice To Deconstruct self/other Binaries in Mathematical, Cooperative Problem Solving (Jim Wilson)
lisa.sheehy@gcssk12.net

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Margaret Sloan*
PhD, August 2006, UGA
Mathematics Education in Rural Georgia: The Crossroad of Social, Political, and Economic Factors (Les Steffe)
Washington-Wilkes High School, Washington, GA; mhsloan@nu-z.net

Gabriel Stylianides*
PhD, June 2005, UMICH (Mathematics Education)
Investigating Students' Opportunities to Develop Proficiency in Reasoning and Proving: A Curricular Perspective (Edward silver)
University of Pittsburg; gstylian@pitt.edu

Andreas Stylianides*
PhD, 2005, UMICH
Proof and Proving in School Mathematics Instruction: Making the Elementary Grades Part of the Equation
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Berkeley (DiME/CLT); astylian@berkeley.edu
Currently an Academic Fellow in Teacher Education at Oxford University, Dep’t of Education Studies, Oxford, U.K.

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Kara Suzuka*
PhD, 2005, Michigan State University (Mathematics Education)
(Deborah Ball)
Assistant Research Scientist, UMICH; ksuzuka@umich.edu

Eric Tillema *
PhD, 2007, UGA
Students' Construction of Algebraic Symbol Systems (Les Steffe)
Indiana University-Purdue, IN;

Andrew Tyminski*
PhD, August 2006, UGA
Examining the Construct of Teacher Lust: Discourse and Actions in the College Mathematics Classroom (Denise Mewborn)
Purdue University at West Lafayette, IN; atyminsk@purdue.edu

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