Stacey Kirk

Mrs. Kirk is the Math Specialist at Guilderland Elementary School. She began working at Guilderland Elementary in 1999 and taught fifth grade for 19 years before transitioning to the position of Math Specialist in the fall of 2018.

Mrs. Kirk graduated from SUNY Binghamton and received a Masters degree in Elementary Education from the College of Saint Rose. For the past 5 years, she has collaborated with Dr. Jianwei Zhang of SUNY Albany and his team of researchers on inquiry based instruction in the science classroom. This work is very useful to Mrs. Kirk as a Math Specialist because many of the components of inquiry learning are incorporated into the Investigations math curriculum.

Math has always been a favorite subject for Mrs. Kirk. She likes using games and hands-on activities to help students build number sense and understanding of math concepts. In Mrs. Kirk's math room, mistakes are encouraged as building blocks for understanding and learning. In this way, she hopes to share her love of math to the students of GES.