Karen Reinhardt has spent the last 20 years supporting K-8 teachers and coaches to improve their mathematics practice. She has taught graduate courses, facilitated workshops, coached teachers in classrooms, facilitated lesson studies, and run video clubs where teachers analyze clips from their classrooms and troubleshoot common problems of practice. Karen has provided professional development around building computational fluency through number talks, analyzing student data using learning progressions, and building and facilitating a math workshop/math menu approach.

Karen is passionate about supporting all students to love math and see themselves as mathematicians. She supports teachers and coaches to work on this through recognizing students’ competence and identifying and disrupting patterns of inequity. 

Karen has held many roles in education including classroom teacher, K-8 math curriculum coordinator, and K-4 math coach. She is an OGAP National Facilitator in Proportional Reasoning, Fractions, and Multiplicative Reasoning, and consults with TeachingWorks at the University of Michigan.