 Lizzy Hull Barnes, Math Supervisor
Lizzy Hull Barnes is the Mathematics and Computer Science Supervisor for SFUSD. She has supported STEM learning for Preschool through 6th graders in schools around the Bay Area, and supported the learning of adults in Louisiana and fellow teachers and coaches in San Francisco. The Common Core and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Standards together have provided all of us a precious window to reframe the question, "What does it mean to be 'good at math'? What does it mean to be 'good at Computer Science?'" Lizzy is excited to support the work of recapturing the STEM fields as multidimensional and creative disciplines for all 57,000 students in SFUSD.
Contact Lizzy: hullbarnese@sfusd.edu |
 Ho Nguyen, Program Administrator for Middle School Math Coaching
Ho Nguyen is the Supervisor of the Middle School Math Coaches. He worked as a High School Math Content Specialist and a member of the LEAD High School Area team and a Complex Instruction Coach. Ho taught high school math for over 10 years at Balboa, Lincoln, Gateway and Richmond high schools.
Contact Ho: nguyenh3@sfusd.edu |
 Alisa Brown, Middle School Math Coach
Alisa Brown joined SFUSD in 2001 as a middle school math teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School. In 2012 she transitioned to coaching teachers of all grade levels and content areas. From 2014-2016, Alisa did program development for SFUSD's intern program while attending graduate school in U.C. Berkeley's Principal Leadership Institute cohort 16. Currently, she works as a Middle School Math Coach, learning and growing with teachers while having conversations around growth mindset and equity for all students.
Contact Alisa: browna5@sfusd.edu |
 Angela Torres, Math Content Specialist
Angela Torres is a high school math teacher who taught for 10 years in California, including 5 years at Mission High School in SFUSD, and internationally in Colombia. She highly values being a member of a collaborative department. She has been a content specialist since 2012, and currently manages the SFUSD Complex Instruction Program. Angela is excited to continue collaborating with colleagues across SFUSD to support rich math learning experiences for all of our students.
Contact Angela: torresa4@sfusd.edu |
 Elizabeth DeCarli, Math Content Specialist
Elizabeth DeCarli taught math at James Logan High School in Union City and worked as a technology coach to help teachers incorporate the use of technology into their math classes. Then she worked at Key Curriculum Press in a variety of positions and had the privilege of working with math teachers, curriculum developers, and authors to develop rich mathematics materials. She loves the productive buzz of learners of any age making sense of mathematics together.
Contact Elizabeth: decarlie@sfusd.edu |
Kelly Clark is an Elementary Math Content Specialist.
Bio and picture coming soon! Contact Kelly: clarkk2@sfusd.edu |
 Jennifer Hein deMause, Math Content Specialist
Jennifer Hein deMause has worked in the realm of special education around the Bay Area: first as a paraprofessional in Oakland, then as a middle school special education teacher in Daly City, and finally as a special education content specialist supporting elementary and middle schools in SFUSD. Now she is supporting elementary math teachers as well as helping to create better access to the core curriculum for our district’s 7,000 students who receive special education services. She loves figuring out how various students learn and using that understanding to create access to challenging and engaging mathematics.
Contact Jennifer: heindemausej@sfusd.edu |
 Kawthar Duncan, Math Content Specialist
Kawthar Duncan is an elementary math content specialist. She has been teaching since 2009. She started her career in Detroit, MI, and moved to the Bay Area in 2011. Kawthar has been a general education and a special education teacher. She has been fortunate to teach so many amazing students where she has learned the importance of social emotional learning, restorative practices, and holding students to high academic expectations. Kawthar is excited to deepen her mathematics content knowledge and finding ways to support teachers in developing and maintaining a safe learning environment for all students. She loves this quote from Rita Pierson, "Every child deserves a champion; an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best they can possibly be."
Contact Kawthar: duncank@sfusd.edu |
 Noam Szoke, Math Content Specialist
Noam Szoke has taught Math to 4th and 5th graders in Oakland, 7th and 8th graders in Santa Maria, and teachers and other adults all over the country. He is interested in how people's beliefs about themselves, about Mathematics, and about learning and teaching intersect and affect their approach toward Math.
Contact Noam: szoken@sfusd.edu |
 Joy Otake, Math Content Specialist
Joy Otake has worked in SFUSD for over 20 years. She started as a 5th grade teacher in the Bay View, and then worked as an Instructional Reform Facilitator for 13 years. Her experience ranges from coaching classroom teachers, to designing professional development, and creating structures for teacher collaboration. She is interested in helping teachers make connections between implementing balanced literacy, and building mathematically powerful classrooms.
Contact Joy: otakee@fusd.edu |
 Sarah Gleason, Middle School Math Coach
Sarah Gleason is a Middle School Math Content Specialist. She began working with SFUSD in 2002, first as a special education paraprofessional at the elementary and high school levels and then moving on to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School as a special education teacher in 2008. Co-teaching in Complex Instruction Math classes totally shifted Sarah’s thinking about math and opened up a new world for her. She is delighted to continue this journey as a coach, where she gets to work with and learn from amazing middle school math teachers and their students across SFUSD.
Contact Sarah: gleasons@sfusd.edu |
Soroya Wood is a Math Content Specialist focused in elementary. Bio and picture coming soon!
Contact Soroya: woodS@sfusd.edu |
 Toni Allen, Middle School Math Coach
Toni Allen is a Middle School Math Content Specialist. She has worked in a variety of teaching and learning contexts and student populations including gifted and talented and the dyslexic learner in public, private, and innovative charter schools. Toni's roots are in elementary multiple subject classrooms. Around 2009, Toni became an elementary math TSA in SFUSD. Building on her work while earning her National Board Certification, Toni has seen her professional growth committed to equity through access, agency, and creating an environment where students can co-construct their mathematical understanding. When SFUSD committed to social justice in the mathematics classroom by de-tracking and creating classrooms and curriculum supporting all learners, Toni jumped at the opportunity to return to SFUSD and work with the highly collaborative team of coaches supporting a shift in teaching and learning so that all students recognize and evolve a positive and productive mathematical identity.
Contact Toni: allena@sfusd.edu |
 Vriana Kempster, Math Content Specialist
Vriana Kempster has been with SFUSD since 2001, as a 5th grade teacher, math coach, and 8th grade Algebra teacher. She is especially interested in Complex Instruction, designing curriculum, student engagement and participation, and working with heterogeneous groups of learners.
Contact Vriana: kempsterv@sfusd.edu |
 Emma Treviño, Project Manager
Emma Treviño is the Project Manager of implementation of CCSS-M for San Francisco Unified School District. She is responsible for ensuring the coherence of the mathematics professional development design and implementation for the District. Previously, she was the Supervisor of Mathematics Programs for the Dana Center at the University of Texas in Austin. She has extensive experience in the areas of mathematics standards, curriculum, and assessment and has provided technical assistance to States and Districts.
Contact Emma: trevinoe@sfusd.edu |
Andres Marti has taught in public high schools since 1990, mostly at Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo, where he spearheaded a successful effort to have all students take college preparatory mathematics courses. More recently he was an editor and product manager at Key Curriculum Press, which published innovative mathematics curriculum and software including Discovering Geometry, Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP), Sketchpad, TinkerPlots, and Fathom. Andres is passionate about integrating technology into mathematics instruction, particularly the use of dynamic geometry, algebra, and data software that allow students to explore and experiment with mathematics.
Contact Andres: martia@sfusd.edu |
Retired Math Department Members
Lise Dworkin, Math Content Specialist, PRIME Director
Lise Dworkin retired from SFUSD after having been a Math Content Specialist from 1989 until 2014. She most recently directed the CaMSP PRIME grades 4 and 5 math project. Lise was an elementary teacher and a Supervisor of Teacher Education at U.C. Berkeley before coming to SFUSD. She has taught math education courses at S.F. State and U.C. Berkeley, and is interested in using formative math assessment in the classroom to promote learning.
