Rusty Bresser

Founder

Director of Professional Learning

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Rusty Bresser facilitates math and science professional development for teachers and administrators. He is particularly interested in issues of equity and social justice and helping teachers find ways to support English language learners in math and science.

 

Professional Experience

• K-8 classroom teacher, 20 years

• UC San Diego Education Studies math and science methods lecturer by(recipient of 2015 Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award)

• UC San Diego Extension science instructor

• Math Solutions math consultant

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Academic Writing

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• Math Workshop Essentials: Developing Number Sense Through Routines, Focus Lessons, and Learning Stations

• Math Solutions Publications

• Becoming Scientists: Inquiry-based Teaching in Diverse Classrooms, Grades 3-5, Stenhouse Publishers

• “Equity for Language Learners”

• Teaching Children Mathematics, Oct. 2009 Focus Issue

• Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class, A Multimedia Professional Learning Resource, Grades K-5, Math Solutions Publications

• "Helping English-Language Learners Develop Computational Fluency"

• Growing Professionally: Readings from NCTM Publications for Grades K-8

• Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class, Grades K-2 , Math Solutions Publications

• Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class, Grades 3-5, Math Solutions Publications

• Minilessons for Math Practice, Grades K-2, Math Solutions Publications

• Minilessons for Math Practice, Grades 3-5, Math Solutions Publications

• Math and Literature 4-6, 2nd Edition, Math Solutions Publications

•  Strategy Talks: An Equity Approach to Teaching Arithmetic for Understanding, unpublished M.A. thesis

• Developing Number Sense 3-6, Math Solutions Publications 

• "Math Matters", Creative Classroom Magazine, New York 

• ​"Math in Action", Instructor Magazine, Scholastic, Inc., New York