Sherri Jones, M.A.

Sherri Jones, M.A.

Course Program Specialist, Secondary Mathematics

Phone: 512.475.8797
Email: sherrijones@austin.utexas.edu

Dana Center Role

Sherri authors and manages content development for Agile Mind course programs in middle school mathematics, and supervises authoring of assessment items for Agile Assessment. In addition, she provides implementation support for partner sites and creates and delivers professional development around assessment.

Before Joining the Dana Center

Sherri worked as a mathematics instructional coach and taught Algebra I at Dobie Middle School in the Austin Independent School District. Before that, she worked at the Dana Center authoring for Agile Mind. She has also taught middle school and high school mathematics for seven years.

Education

M.A., Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin 

M.A., Secondary Education Mathematics, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

B.S., Secondary Education Mathematics, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Selected Presentations

Proportional reasoning before proportions. Presented at the Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT), San Antonio, TX (July 2019).

Innovative assessments. Presented at CAMT, Houston, TX (July 2018).

Focus on conceptual understanding through formative assessment. Presented CAMT, Fort Worth, TX (July 2017).