Dr. Ted H. Hull completed 32 years of service in public education before retiring
and opening Hull Educational Consulting. He served as a mathematics teacher, K-12 mathematics coordinator, middle school principal,
director of curriculum and instruction, and a project director for the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas in
Austin. While at the University of Texas, 2001 to 2005, he directed the research project “Transforming Schools: Moving
from Low-Achieving to High Performing Learning Communities.” As part of the project, Hull worked directly with district
leaders, school administrators, and teachers in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas to develop instructional leadership
skills and implement effective mathematics instruction. Hull is a regular presenter at local, state, and national
meetings. He has written numerous articles for the NCSM Newsletter, including "Understanding the Six Steps of Implementation:
Engagement by an Internal or External Facilitator" (2005) and "Leadership Equity: Moving Professional Development
into the Classroom" (2005), as well as "Manager to Instructional Leader"(2007) for the NCSM
Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership. He has been published in the Texas Mathematics Teacher (2006),
Teacher Input Into Classroom Visits: Customized Classroom Visit Form. Hull was also a contributing author for publications
from the Charles A. Dana Center: Mathematics Standards in the Classroom: Resources for Grades 6–8 (2002) and
Middle School Mathematics Assessments: Proportional Reasoning(2004). He is an active member of Texas Association
of Supervisors of Mathematics (TASM) and served on the NCSM Board of Directors as regional director for Southern 2. Affiliations: Educational Consultant
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rmiles@mathleadership.com
Ruth Harbin Miles coaches rural, suburban, and innercity school
mathematics teachers. Her professional experience includes coordinating the K-12 Mathematics Teaching and Learning Program
for the Olathe, Kansas Public Schools for over 25 years; teaching mathematics methods courses at Virginia’s Mary Baldwin
College and Ottawa, Mid America Nazarene, St. Mary’s, and Fort Hays State universities in Kansas; and serving as president
of the Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics. She represented eight midwestern states on the Board of Directors for
the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) and has been a co-presenter for NCSM’s Leadership Professional
Development National Conferences. Miles is the coauthor of Walkway to the Future: How to Implement the NCTM Standards
(Jansen Publications, 1996), and is one of the writers for NCSM’s PRIME Leadership Framework (Solution Tree
Publishers, 2008). As co-owner of Happy Mountain Learning, she specializes in developing teachers’ content knowledge
and strategies for engaging students to achieve high standards in mathematics. Affiliations: Mary Baldwin College, VA
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dbalka@mathleadership.com
Dr. Don S. Balka, a former middle school and high school mathematics teacher, is professor
emeritus in the Mathematics Department at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. During his career as an educator,
Balka has presented over 2,000 workshops on the use of manipulatives with elementary and secondary students at national and
regional conferences of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, state mathematics conferences, and at inservice training
for school districts throughout the United States. In addition, he has taught classes in schools throughout the world, including
Ireland, Scotland, England, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Greece, Japan, and the Mariana Islands in the South Pacific. In addition,
Balka has written over 20 books on the use of manipulatives for teaching K-12 mathematics and is a coauthor of the Macmillan
K-5 elementary mathematics series, Math Connects. Balka has served as director for the National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics, the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, and School Science and Mathematics Association. Affiliations:
Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
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