About

Jenna Laib (she/her)
(JEN-nuh Lai-EEB)

e-mail: jennifer_laib at psbma.org
twitter: @jennalaib

I am employed as a K-8 math specialist in Brookline, MA. Previously, I taught 4th through 6th grades. I do educational consulting for districts in the greater Boston area, and have also worked for organizations like Illustrative Mathematics and the Museum of Science in Boston. I was the 2016 recipient of the Harry S. Levitan Prize for Educational Leadership from Brandeis University, a 2017 Margaret Metzger fellow, and a 2023 Desmos Fellow. I have had to pleasure of speaking at conferences across the US and Canada.

Students inspire me. I am privileged to have worked with hundreds of students who regularly share with me their brilliance, their passions, their fears, their apathy, and also when they believe I should reconsider my fashion choices. Students are a big part of why I became an educator, and why I continue to teach.

My role as a school-based math specialist is highly collaborative. You will often find me in my colleagues classrooms, teaching and observing and learning and celebrating all of the beautiful things that happen. (…and commiserating with the classroom teacher when things feel like they aren’t going according to our best laid plans.) We work together to deepen our content knowledge and improve our pedagogical strategies. Sometimes, my colleagues even let me write about the wonderful things that they do!

I curate SlowRevealGraphs.com.

*Most names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals. ALL students are referred to by pseudonyms.*

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