Gerald Aungst
I have 23 years of experience in education as a teacher and curriculum developer. I spent 18 years teaching math at the elementary level as both a classroom teacher and gifted support specialist, and developed many of these strategies during that time. In addition, I taught and coordinated a summer remedial math and reading program for six years and have worked as an Instructional Support specialist, leading teams of teachers to develop and implement interventions for struggling learners. For the past 5 years, I have been a district administrator supervising mathematics curriculum and instruction. My work includes developing standards-based curriculum and leading professional development of teachers. A published author, my work has appeared in publications by ISTE, ASCD, and Linworth. I have written chapters in two books:
Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher-Librarian Partnerships for K-6 (2nd ed.), by Toni Buzzeo, and
Teaching Literacy in the Digital Age: Inspiration for All Levels and Literacies, by Mark Gura. I have also co-authored the articles "Three Schools for the 21
st" (in the February 2011 issue of
Educational Leadership) and "Proceed With Caution" (in the February/March 2011 issue of
EdTech: Focus on K12. I am also a nationally recognized leader in mathematics, assessment, digital literacy, and digital tools. I am a member of the Alliance for Excellent Education's Project 24 Team of Experts and the National Association for Gifted Children's 2012 Administrator Task Force. I have been cited as a mathematics expert in Mark Barnes′s forthcoming book on assessment and feedback in the classroom, and as an expert in co-teaching and differentiation in Anne Beninghof′s book "Co-Teaching That Works". I have also presented at local districts, and state and national conferences on mathematics, student engagement, and digital technology, including NAGC, ISTE, Educon, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Digital Learning Day. I have an active presence online and in social media. I am a regular contributor to Mark Barnes's blog "Brilliant or Insane" (http: //www.brilliant-insane.com/author/geraldaungst). My posts there draw several thousand page views each. I also recently conducted a webinar for edWeb on problem solving culture which had about 250 participants. That webinar was recently highlighted at eSchool News (http: //www.eschoolnews.com/2014/09/17/problem-solving-culture-904/) and featured in the CEC Smartbrief and Math Education Smartbrief during the week of September 15, 2014. An article I wrote on Webb's Depth of Knowledge was recently posted at Edutopia (http: //www.edutopia.org/blog/webbs-depth-knowledge-increase-rigor-gerald-aungst). As of October 3, 2014, that post has received over 39,000 views, and it has been listed on the "Popular" section of their front page for more than two weeks. For the past three years ASCD has invited me to cover their annual conference as a member of their education blogger press corps. I am also the developer of the websites All About Explorers (http: //www.allaboutexplorers.com) and Connected Teachers (http: //www.connectedteachers.org). All About Explorers, launched in 2006, averages 19,000 hits per day. Connected Teachers is still in its infancy as it was only started in March 2014.
Upcoming and Recent Presentations: Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse (ITEC Conference, Iowa) October 12-14, 2014
Revitalize Your Assessment with Digital Tools (ITEC Conference, Iowa) October 12-14, 2014
Creating a Culture of Problem Solving in Your School (edWeb.net) August 20, 2014
Digital Tools for Teaching Math and Science (Onslow County Schools) February 17, 2014
Game Programming with Scratch (Digital Learning Day 2014) February 5, 2014
Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse: Student Engagement (Educon 2.6) January 25, 2014
Digital Strategies for Common Core Implementation (Project 24 Webinar) June 18, 2013
The Inside Scoop on GIEPs (C-MITES) April 27, 2013
Gifted Education: It's Not Just for Pull Out Anymore (C-MITES) March 20, 2013 C4
Project: Designing a Mission-Aligned Curriculum January-March, 2013
Revitalize Your Assessment with Digital Tools (Digital Learning Day 2013) February 6, 2013
Sequence & Consequence: Why Storytelling is Essential (Educon 2.5) January 26, 2013
