About me
Julie Sarama is the Kennedy Endowed Chair in Innovative Learning Technologies and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Denver. She conducts research on young children's development of mathematical concepts and competencies, implementation and scale-up of educational reform, professional development models and their influence on student learning, and implementation and effects of software environments (including those she has created) in mathematics classrooms. These studies have been published in more than 80 refereed articles, 7 books, 60 chapters, and over 100 additional publications. She is Principal Investigator on her latest IES award, “Evaluating the Efficacy of an Interdisciplinary Preschool Curriculum (EPIC),” which evaluates a curriculum produced from grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) on which she was also PI, “Early Childhood Education in the Context of Mathematics, Science, and Literacy.” In total, she has directed 36 externally funded projects from the IES, NSF, and National Institute of Health (NIH). Another project, funded by the Heising-Simons Found and the 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 (LearningTrajectories.org) empirically supported in previous projects. Dr. Sarama has taught secondary mathematics and computer science, gifted math at the middle school level, preschool and kindergarten mathematics enrichment classes, and mathematics methods and content courses for elementary to secondary teachers. In addition, she was the Director of the Gifted Mathematics Program (GMP) at the University of Buffalo, SUNY.
