June 2022 Workshop

Erin R. Militzer is a professor of Mathematics at Ferris State University and has been teaching using active learning & IBL since 2010. During her teaching post-doctoral at the University of Arizona, she began teaching Elementary Education courses and fell in love with teaching pre-service (and eventually) in-service teachers. She has also been an Intel Math instructor for various districts throughout Michigan. The Ferris State Mathematics department gives Erin a chance to teach a variety of courses at varying levels. She has taught every course from High School Algebra to Real Analysis and most recently a long stint of the calculus course (using Active Calculus). She participates in as many active learning conferences she can and appreciates the AMiIBL community! Erin has 3 kids (9, 6 & 2), 3 Bengal cats and a wonderful husband all who keep her busy and on her toes.

Grace McClurkin is an Assistant Professor at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU). Before settling down in Michigan, Grace grew up in Ohio, spent her undergrad at Saint Mary’s in Indiana, and got her PhD from University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Now at SVSU, Grace is working with a team to redesign the developmental math sequence, focusing on creating and supporting the use of more active learning strategies in these courses. She uses inquiry and active learning, in conjunction with inverted classrooms, in most of her classes, from Numerical Literacy to Introduction to Proof. Her interest in IBL began in 2018 when she attended the National IBL conference in Austin; she quickly followed that up with an IBL Product summer workshop in 2019. Since then, she’s been an active member of AMIBL.

Francesca Gandini is a visiting assistant professor at Kalamazoo College. Before moving to Kalamazoo, she studied for her Mathematics PhD at the University of Michigan. Her mathematics interests are in algebra, combinatorics, and graph theory. In her time at the University of Michigan she also developed an interest in mathematics education and obtained a Master in Post-Secondary Science Education. Her interest in IBL peaked when she started attending the annual multi-day IBL workshops at the University of Michigan and joined the local learning community on inclusive teaching. When she moved to Kalamazoo, she joined the leadership team of AMIIBL, the Alliance of Michigan IBLers, which is now part of an NSF grant for supporting and studying regional IBL communities.

Drawing on 15 years classroom experience teaching college mathematics with inquiry, Nina White has been supporting other instructors in teaching with inquiry since 2015, and in 2018 joined the AIBL Workshop Developers team to provide this support nationally. She is the founding director of AMiIBL, directs a Math Teachers' Circle for Detroit-area teachers, and founded a local Learning Community for Inclusive Teaching (LCIT) in Mathematics at University of Michigan.