About the Presenter

Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D. helps teachers and students understand mathematics as a coherent and connected discipline. She currently serves ORIGO Education as Vice President of Research and Content and Chair of ORIGO’s Mathematics Advisory Board. An experienced teacher and nationally recognized speaker, her work emphasizes the power of deep understanding and multiple representations for learning. Sara’s interests include building conceptual understanding of mathematics to support procedural fluency and applications, incorporating engaging literature into mathematics and science instruction, and connecting mathematics to engineering design in meaningful ways. She is a fourth-generation educator with experience teaching mathematics and science to K-8 students as well as experience teaching pre-service and in-service teachers at the university level.

Sara is an author of the Visible Learning for Mathematics series, the Mathematize It series, and the Mastering Math Manipulatives series of books for Corwin Mathematics. She earned her B.A. in natural sciences from The Johns Hopkins University, her M.St. in general linguistics and comparative philology from the University of Oxford (UK), and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining ORIGO, Sara served as faculty at the University of Kentucky, Director of the Kentucky Center for Middle School Academic Achievement, and Director of Mathematics and Science at hand2mind. She lives in Kent, Ohio with her husband, two cats, and a large stash of yarn and fabric.