Meet the team

Growing Mathletes is a team of educational professionals dedicated to providing meaningful and relevant math enrichment programs to spread awareness around the growth mindset!

Ricardo Valerdi

Principal Investigator

Department Head, Systems & Industrial Engineering

rvalerdi@arizona.edu

Erin Turner

Co-Principal Investigator

Professor of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies

eturner@arizona.edu

Christina Baze

Researcher

Assistant Professor,

Department of STEM Education,

Northern Arizona University

christina.baze@nau.edu

Sanlyn Buxner

Researcher

Associate Research Professor of Teaching/Learning and Sociocultural Studies

buxner@arizona.edu

Chris Rendes

Graduate Research Assistant

PhD Student in Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural studies

cmrendes@arizona.edu

Seneca Beth Miller

Graduate Research Assistant

PhD student in Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies

senecabe@arizona.edu

Advisory Board

Shannon Campe

Program Manager,

Research and Evaluation, ETR

(Scotts Valley, CA)

Lynn Dierking

Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice Learning, Science & Mathematics Education, Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR)

Daniel Miranda

Clubhouse Director, Boys & Girls Club (Tucson, AZ)

Gina Pavlov

Instructional Practices Coach,

Saddleback Valley Unified School District (Orange County, CA)

Chad Smith

Former instructor, Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy (New Orleans, LA)

Rich Tomey

Regional Director (AZ and HI), Positive Coaching Alliance (Phoenix, AZ)