Featured Speakers and Panelists

Jerome Shaw is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Science Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Shaw's research examines science teaching and learning for culturally and linguistically diverse students with an explicit focus on the relationship of assessment to this larger process.

Eli Luberoff is the founder and CEO of Desmos.com, a company whose goal is to "help every student learn math and love learning math". Desmos is the first free, Web-based, in-browser graphing calculator, and also encompasses tools to build activities and a community of builders creating new activities.

Janet Coffey is a program officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, CA. In this position, she is responsible for developing and implementing a strategic agenda for science education and oversees the science learning portfolio of grants.

Patrick Callahan is the founder and CEO of Callahan Consulting, a company that enjoys teaching, learning, traveling, and finding a really good math problem to solve. Dr. Callahan has held a variety of positions in different areas of mathematics education, including the Executive Director of the University of California Science and Mathematics Initiative, a Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, and the Statewide Co-Director of the California Mathematics Project. He is also a content leader for Illustrative Mathematics, as well as a member of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s Item Quality Review Expert Panel.

Sherry Hsi is a Senior Research Scientist with the Concord Consortium and formerly served as a director of research at the Lawrence Hall of Science and the Exploratorium, two San Francisco Bay Area science centers. She has designed and studied mobile inquiry, informal learning programs, science learning media, and educational apps.