Sarah’s Story
Sarah Strong loves creating spaces for her children and adult students to share their math stories, and collectively rewrite stories where everyone in the community can flourish. She also finds joy in supporting new teachers in falling in love with teaching. She taught math to students in grades 6 through 12 at High Tech High in San Diego for seventeen years and also to preservice and graduate students in the HTH Graduate School of Education for the past six years. She has authored a few journal articles (Improving Math at HTH with Improvement Science and Deeper Learning in Common Core Math Projects) and an edweek blog post on the impacts of traditional grading systems on student math identity development (Making math about more than the numbers). She also authored a chapter of the book Hands and Minds on assessment. Her most recent publication, Dear Math, is a book she co-authored with one of her students about the stories students tell about their experiences in math class and how teachers can co-design with students to have more positive and productive feelings and experiences.
Reach Sarah at sstrong@hightechhigh.org.