About Jackie
This is me as Commander at Space Camp in the Summer of 2007
About Jackie Cooke
I have been teaching in elementary classrooms around the Portland metropolitan area since 1981. I have taught every grade K-8 (except sixth). I am currently assigned to teach half-time as the Title I Technology Teacher in Gresham, OR on the days when I am not serving as the Math Intervention Specialist at John Wetten Elementary School. Over the last decade I have also had the opportunity to serve as the Co-editor for TOMT, the professional journal of the Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics (O.C.T.M.) and the webmaster for that organization as well. I was the lead author on Portland State University’s (PSU) Successful Lessons for Meeting Oregon’s Math Standards: A Guide to Oregon’s New K-5 Math Focal Points and am currently working with a team of teachers to write and teach a series of courses for elementary teachers to deepen their understanding of mathematics content knowledge. This project is sponsored by the PRiSM grant. The Deepening Mathematical Understanding Series is a certificate program for PSU.
In the past I have won several teaching awards including being named Oregon’s 2007 Teacher of the Year, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching award in 1998, the 1995 Oregon Electronics Elementary Math Teacher of the Year Award, and the Associated Oregon Industries Oregon Education Excellence Award Winner in 1994. I am a mother of three grown children and grandmother of four.
I am really impressed with your writing skills as well as with the layout on your weblog. Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself? Anyway keep up the nice quality writing, it’s rare to see a nice blog like this one these days..
Hi Jackie,
Great blog! I’ve bookmarked it for the future.
I especially love your list of math quotes. I am printing it out to put up on my wall…for all those times when I need some inspiration to keep going.
A few more suggested contributions for your list:
Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Sonya Kovalevsky:
“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul….It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive what others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.”
Mary