Diane is passionate about learning, including learning how students learn and empowering engaged learning. Diane believes in promoting STEAM for ALL students. She works with educators to ensure all students feel comfortable in school and feel confident learning new things.
As an educator Diane has worked with K-12 students for 20 years, focusing on engaging struggling students while giving them the tools to make sense of science, technology, coding, and math. She loved (and still does) creating problem-solving and design challenges to build student learning.
A lifelong learner, Diane earned her doctorate from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and now works with pre-service teachers at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. In this role she teaches how to teach mathematics inclusively and with meaning. This teaching goes beyond working with math teachers and extends into all streams, creating strategies for all teacher candidates to use coding to teach subjects across the curriculum.
Follow Diane on Twitter @TepyloTeaches to join her in her mission to develop a passion for STEAM in all students.
Research Interests
Developing responsive mathematics educators, affordances of coding for student learning, supporting language learners in STEM teaching, teacher research as a support for teacher learning, affordances of technology for mathematics learning, implementing code to supplement commercial statistical packages.