JDP - Joint Doctoral Program in Leadership for Educational Equity


Faculty - Dr. Judith Kysh
Faculty

Dr. Judith Kysh
Professor
San Francisco State University

jkysh@sfsu.edu
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Dr. Kysh received the 1999-2000 James H. Meyer Award for Distinguished Public Service. Her work has always focused on mathematics education, first teaching mathematics in grades 7-12, then working with in-service teachers of mathematics K-College, and now teaching undergraduates, graduates, and credential students.

From 1962-1980 Judy Kysh taught mathematics at Sir Francis Drake High School in the Tamalpais Union High School District. During that time she also served as Department Chair and District Mathematics Supervisor. In addition, she served as president of the local AFT. In 1980 she started work with a Lawrence Hall of Science Program with the Oakland Public Schools. The purpose of the program was to prepare more students for success in calculus at UC Berkeley and similar universities. As a part of her work she taught classes at Castlemont High and at Elmhurst Middle School. In addition she visited and worked in the classrooms of math teachers at King Estates, Frick, and Havenscourt  Middle Schools and lead workshops for teachers.

In 1982 UC Davis and CSU Sacramento had set aside some funding to start a program called the Northern California Mathematics Project (NCMP), a professional development program for K-12 and college teachers, and Kysh was selected as its director. Through Gary Hart they convinced the CA legislature to fund the California Math Project, and in its early years, she was the statewide coordinator. During time she directed the NCMP, she worked on both the 1985 and 1992 California Math Frameworks. In 1989, she and her colleagues received funding for the College Prep Math project to develop materials to replace the available texts in Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2 courses. Since then, through the non-profit corporation CPM Educational Program, they have developed a 6-12 math program and a nationwide leadership and professional development network involving approximately 3,500 teachers.

Through the NCMP Kysh had the opportunity to work with teachers and administrators in most of the schools and districts in the 13 counties around Davis, in particular with the Sacramento area districts: Sacramento City, Elk Grove, San Juan, and Grant. While field testing CPM materials and doing research on student discourse in small groups she taught the year-long Algebra 1 course  at Woodland High and at Sacramento High. In addition, through the UC Davis CRESS center she worked with Teacher Research groups in the middle and elementary schools in Dixon, Del Paso Heights, Sacramento, Fairfield, and Vacaville and developed a long term teacher research program with teachers from Rio Vista Elementary in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District.

In Fall 2000, she returned to the Bay Area to teach in the Secondary Education and Mathematics Departments at San Francisco State. She has just completed a four-year series of Algebra Institutes with the San Mateo County teachers, funded by the UC Office of the President, and is currently working with math teachers from the San Francisco, San Lorenzo, South San Francisco, Berkeley, and Jefferson Elementary districts in an NSF funded project to REvitalize ALgebra (REAL).

 

 

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