Debbie Duvall is a mathematics and numeracy consultant for the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium. Prior to taking on this role, she worked as a consultant with Elk Island Public Schools for four years.
Debbie worked for the Ministry of Education for 12 years where she represented Alberta on the Western and Northern Canadian Protocol Common Curriculum Framework for Mathematics development team. She has represented Canada on the Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and served on a variety of professional development committees.
She currently travels across North America providing PD on a variety of educational topics including formative assessment, student engagement and numeracy.
Keith Van De Keere is a recently retired school administrator who has focused his last 7 years on being a Math Curriculum Coordinator and Coach for school districts, working with teachers in workshop settings as well as providing in-class support for individual teachers from Kindergarten through Grade 8.
He asks teachers to provide student focused learning within a community of learners. This requires teachers to become better “kid watchers” in order to find what is really understood by students, and then responding accordingly.
Keith has recently been chosen to work in western Canada with Cathy Fosnot to provide learning opportunities for teachers who want to create and maintain a dynamic math classroom experience for kids.