Co-Principal Investigator for the Algebraic Thinking Project: Utilizing research and new technologies to overcome the algebra barrier. This US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant is for $750 000. Steve Rhine from Willamette University is the Principal Investigator for this project that also includes George Fox University and Western Oregon University. My role includes creating an online reference that summarizes important ideas for practitioners from educational research, to help in the development of handheld applications to increase students’ ability to learn algebra and in the field trials of these applications in local school districts.

Co-Principal Investigator for a Visionary grant award from The Scripps Research Visualization in Science and Education Grant from National Science Foundation. This NSF grant was used to support research on whether high school seniors in Virginia high schools who use geospatial tools on a daily basis and who complete a final community-based GIS project demonstrate evidence of recognized 21st Century thinking skills when independently rated by GIS capable faculty. Dr. Robert Kolvoord is the principal investigator for this projects and I am the co-pi with Sheryl Sorby from Michigan Technological University. My role has been to develop lead the development of the rubric for assessing the projects for 21^st Century Thinking Skills and to assist in the scoring of projects using the rubric in classrooms in Virginia and the grant has been used to fund travel to those classrooms.

Project team member of the Title IIB Math and Science Partnership (MSP) between the Northwest Regional Educational Service District (NWRESD), the Hillsboro School District, Pacific University, and Linfield College. This project was funded by the United States Department of Education through state block grants. The partnership sponsored mathematics institutes for 60 elementary and middle school mathematics teachers during the Summer of 2004, 2005, and 2006. Teachers came from the Hillsboro School district, Forest Grove School District, and the Tigard School District. Responsibilities included developing and helping secure funding for the project, teaching in the summer institute, and leading the effort implement a modified version of the Japanese lesson study method as a follow-up professional development effort during the school year back in the teacher’s schools.

Principal Investigator/Project Director for Pacific’s participation as a sponsored project in the grant Project VISM: Visualization in Science and Mathematics, written by Dr. Robert Kolvoord at James Madison University for the NSF Teacher Enhancement program (funded, March 2000). Authored the annual NSF evaluation report for the project. Hosted 25 teachers from around the country for a three-day follow-on workshop at Pacific University during the Summer of 2004. Incorporated some of these tools with our students in the technology and mathematics/science methods classes at Pacific University. Shared these tools with other Pacific faculty. Continue to do long term follow-up research with these participants through a variety of funding sources.

Teacher Education Lead Faculty member at Pacific University for the Oregon Technology in Education Network (OTEN) PT3 grant (see http://www.oten.info/). Worked under the leadership of Dr. Mark Bailey, Pacific’s campus coordinator for this grant. Responsibilities included encouraging the integration of technology into courses of faculty colleagues and encouraging effective use of technology by student teachers. Helped make the purchasing decisions for the technology library of laptops, projection, and wireless hub. Helped draft the request for proposals for the $1000.00 mini-grants made available to our student teachers. Distributed, recruited, reviewed, and awarded applicants for the mini-grants. Followed up via email and, in some cases, personal visits to the classrooms of those student teachers who received the mini-grants. Attended regular lead faculty meetings with faculty from the five other OTEN colleges/universities: Willamette University, University of Portland, Western Baptist College, Concordia University, and George Fox University. Helped plan the fall and spring teacher education technology conferences each year of this three-year grant. Recruited presenters from among our students and faculty for the conferences.  Attended and assisted at both the fall and spring teacher education technology conferences, presenting when needed at one of the conferences. Completed an annual report summarizing grant activities in the College of Education related to the grant.

Campus Coordinator at Pacific University for the OTEN PT3 grant. Served during the spring and summer of 2003 when Mark Bailey was away on sabbatical. Additional responsibilities included working directly with arts and sciences faculty to support their projects. Helped plan and attended the spring showcase conferences featuring arts and science faculty mini-grant projects that integrated technology. Attended one Pacific faculty member’s final project presentations on campus related to her mini-grant. Recruited foreign language and arts lead faculty members for the 2003-2004 academic year. Planned with Pacific Conference Services the Fall 2003 Teacher Education Conference held on the Pacific University campus September 27, 2003. This was Pacific’s first time hosting this conference of 300+ preservice educators from around the region. Scheduled classroom and computer lab space, coordinated technical setup for the conference, and contracted with Conference Services for the conference under College of Education sponsorship.