Math Educator, Instructional Coach & Curriculum Developer
Empowering teachers & students to understand and enjoy mathematics
Philosophy & Approach
Halle Kananack is a highly experienced and enthusiastic educator with a 20-year background in teaching math and a decade of coaching fellow teachers.
With wide-ranging experience as a teacher and instructional coach, Halle's proven approach of prioritizing reasoning and problem solving fosters genuine math understanding in both teachers and students, K-12 and beyond.
At the core of Halle’s approach is leveraging the logical, interrelated, and highly visual nature of mathematics, and the inherent power of the human brain to contemplate numbers, quantity, and patterns.
Halle collaborates with teachers & administrators to facilitate student-centered instruction, which fosters engagement, confidence and authentic thinking.
Learning becomes long-lasting when we ground lessons in big ideas and the relationships between concepts, AND create space for students to explore the math together, make mistakes, and work from their own understanding.
High leverage instructional strategies at the core of Halle's teaching and coaching include:
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Math models (manipulatives & visuals) are valuable tools for reasoning that foster authentic understanding & independent problem solving, and grow with the students over the years
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Math talk empowers students to work out their understanding, forge connections between concepts, and learn with peers
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Math games, routines, & activities motivate students, harness their innate problem solving abilities, and make learning fun!
Experience
Unique, big-picture perspective of teaching & learning mathematics, K-12 and beyond
Wide-ranging and extensive experience facilitating professional development, coaching teachers & administrators, developing math curricula, and teaching children, teens & adults in diverse educational settings:
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public and private schools
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elementary, middle and high schools
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well resourced and high-needs districts
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inner city, urban, suburban, & rural areas
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school, district, city, county & state level
TEACHING ROLES
Public School Teacher
Math Adjunct Professor
College Math Tutor
Guest Teacher
Private Tutor/Teacher
Mathcounts Coach
SAT, GRE, GED Test Prep Teacher
Remedial Math Teacher
STUDENTS
K-12 Children & Teenagers
K-12 Teachers & Administrators
English Language Learners
Community College Students
Incarcerated Adults
in College Prison Program
Teenagers & Adults
Pursuing their GED
Private Students of All Ages
Curriculum
development
Common Core-Aligned K-12 Math Curriculum, 5th grade team
SIFE Math (Math/English literacy) for recent immigrant HS students
Math & Math Ed Courses for College Prison Initiative
Math Games for K-12 Schools
Math Art & Nature
for home schooled students
Curriculum Development, Alignment & Modification
for individual schools & districts
Professional DevelopmenT
Common Core Alignment & Implementation trainings at the state, county & district level, including NYSED trainings for teachers & administrators
NYC DOE's City-Wide
Algebra for All Summer Institute
PD and Math Ed Workshops at the school, district & county level:
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curriculum implementation
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student engagement
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independent problem solving
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deepening teacher & student understanding of mathematics