Katharine Clemmer
Board Member
Kathy Clemmer is a career math education innovator whose passion is embracing and capitalizing on the neurodiversity of each student to grow each as a mathematical thinker, problem solver, and self-regulated learner. She has a talent for growing each student’s math identity & agency and positioning each with power in their math classroom community. She believes students thrive in their math community when they value the different ways mathematics can be approached, leverage mistakes as opportunities to learn, have voice and agency to intervene in and influence their own learning environments and pathways, have a sense of being accepted, valued, included, and encouraged by others in the academic classroom setting thereby feeling they are an important part of the life and activity of the class.
She used her passion for celebrating, embracing, and valuing neurodiversity in students, her love of teaching pure mathematics, and her deep understanding of the current math education system to develop a thinking framework that re-imagines how educators can create active and inclusive math learning classroom communities.
Kathy held a dual clinical faculty appointment in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) School of Education and Seaver College of Science and Engineering for thirteen years. She is an award-winning educator, founder of the innovative and locally recognized Common Core Math and Science Teaching (CMAST) program, and founder and Director of the Mathematics Leadership Corps in Los Angeles. In 2015, the state of California nominated Kathy for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the nation’s highest honor for teachers of mathematics and science. Kathy’s teaching and research focus is on increasing the number of neurodiverse students who are mathematical thinkers, problem solvers, and self-regulated learners. Kathy graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Russian and minor in mathematics. She completed a degree in mathematics at LMU, and she holds a Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics from LMU. She also attended the University of Leningrad during the Soviet era.
Katharine Clemmer
Board Member
Kathy Clemmer is a career math education innovator whose passion is embracing and capitalizing on the neurodiversity of each student to grow each as a mathematical thinker, problem solver, and self-regulated learner. She has a talent for growing each student’s math identity & agency and positioning each with power in their math classroom community. She believes students thrive in their math community when they value the different ways mathematics can be approached, leverage mistakes as opportunities to learn, have voice and agency to intervene in and influence their own learning environments and pathways, have a sense of being accepted, valued, included, and encouraged by others in the academic classroom setting thereby feeling they are an important part of the life and activity of the class.
She used her passion for celebrating, embracing, and valuing neurodiversity in students, her love of teaching pure mathematics, and her deep understanding of the current math education system to develop a thinking framework that re-imagines how educators can create active and inclusive math learning classroom communities.
Kathy held a dual clinical faculty appointment in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) School of Education and Seaver College of Science and Engineering for thirteen years. She is an award-winning educator, founder of the innovative and locally recognized Common Core Math and Science Teaching (CMAST) program, and founder and Director of the Mathematics Leadership Corps in Los Angeles. In 2015, the state of California nominated Kathy for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the nation’s highest honor for teachers of mathematics and science. Kathy’s teaching and research focus is on increasing the number of neurodiverse students who are mathematical thinkers, problem solvers, and self-regulated learners. Kathy graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Russian and minor in mathematics. She completed a degree in mathematics at LMU, and she holds a Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics from LMU. She also attended the University of Leningrad during the Soviet era.