Division for Early Childhood 2024 Conference

Douglas H. Clements is Distinguished University Professor, Kennedy Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning, and Executive Director of the Marsico Institute for Early Learning at the University of Denver. Previously a kindergarten teacher for five years and a preschool teacher for one year, he has conducted research and published widely in the areas of the learning and teaching of early mathematics and computer applications in mathematics education. His most recent interests are in creating, using, and evaluating a research-based curriculum and in taking successful curricula to scale using technologies and learning trajectories. He has published over 185 refereed research studies, 30 books , 107 chapters, and 300 additional works. His latest books detail research-based learning trajectories in early mathematics education, including Learning and teaching early math: The learning trajectories approach (Routledge). Dr. Clements has directed over 40 funded projects. Another project, just funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Scalable Professional Development in Early Mathematics: The Learning and Teaching with Learning Trajectories Tool, is updating and disseminate a professional development software application empirically supported in previous projects. is contributions have led to the development of new mathematics curricula, software, teaching approaches, teacher training initiatives, and models of “scaling up” interventions. Dr. Clements has served on six national research committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering (NASEM, including NRC AND IOM), as well as on the President’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel, and the Common Core State Standards committee (NGA, CCSSO), and is co-author of each of the reports.