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Eliza is serving in her fifth year as Director of the Northwest Montana Educational Cooperative, a consortium of twenty-two districts, serving over 10,500 students in Kalispell, Montana. Eliza received her B.A. in Elementary Education and her administrative endorsement from the University of Montana, Missoula.  She received her M.A. in education from the University of Colorado, Boulder, focusing in multicultural, bilingual, and ESL education.  Eliza has taught in Montana, Dhaka Bangladesh, Playa de Carmen Mexico, and Colorado. To add to that depth, she has educated students in a multi-age classroom, a traditional classroom, in a specialist setting, and in a content specific classroom. Math instruction has been a passion of Eliza’s since her student teaching experience where she honed her skills using Math Snack to teach mathematical problem solving. Since then, in addition to her classroom experience, she has presented locally and at the state level on a myriad of topics. Eliza has served as a Math TOSA (teacher on special assignment) and has taught math at grade levels Nursery through Math Methods for Elementary Teachers at the collegiate level as an adjunct professor. Currently, she supports districts with writing and refining curriculum, creating pacing and curriculum maps, developing common assessments, increasing background knowledge through vocabulary, as well as supporting teachers with their personal Math development and their classroom instruction through ongoing and sustainable professional development. She has been working with districts who implement Singapore Math and those that supplement their programs with Singapore Math concepts. She was recently awarded the Reading Administrator of the Year by the Northwest Montana Reading Council and continues to explore language-based connections to math instruction. Eliza is passionate about creating relationships through teacher and student engagement, expecting rigor in research based instruction using promising practices, and establishing relevance within content. 

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