Gladis Kersaint

University of South Florida

Gladis Kersaint is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida.  Her responsibilities include teaching undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level courses in mathematics education. She has taught various levels including public school, community college and university and has provided provide professional development for teachers at all levels, K-12. 

Gladis is an active member of the mathematics education community at the local, state, and national levels.  She brought together Florida mathematics teacher educators to organize the Florida Association of Teachers of Mathematics (FAMTE) and served as its first president. She has recently served as a member of the Florida Mathematics Standards Writing Team. She is currently serving as the Chair of the Editorial Panel for NCTM’s Teaching Children Mathematics. In addition, she has been active in AMTE, having served as the co-editor for Contemporary Issues in Teaching and Teacher Education – Mathematics (an online journal sponsored by AMTE) and the Chair of the AMTE 2006 Conference Program Committee (Tampa, Fl).

Gladis has been awarded over four million dollars for research and training grants at the national, state, and local levels. She is currently lead investigator of a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant, Achievement through Content Expertise that partners mathematics teachers and mathematicians in developing professional development modules to enhance K-8 teachers’ content knowledge. In addition to authoring research and practitioner articles, Gladis has coauthored two books -- Meaningful Urban Education: Confronting the Learning Crisis in Mathematics and Science (State University of New York Press, 2005) that is based on her work as co-principal investigator of an NSF funded project and Meaning Making: Developing Content Literacy in the Middle Grades, (Heinemann) that is due to be released in 2008.

As a board member, I will work with the AMTE membership and the Board to support the organization’s mission and goals and to enhance its role as a leader in the mathematics education community. As a member-at-large, I will support AMTE’s continued effort to serve as a forum for sharing and exchanging ideas to enhance the work of mathematics teachers and mathematics teacher educators at all stages of their careers.