Amanda Zimolzak

Amanda Zimolzak joined the UChicago STEM Education team in 2011. Amanda works to create and facilitate school and district based mathematics professional development. She has developed and facilitated a coaching academy aimed at increasing instructional coaches’ abilities to support high-quality mathematics instruction. Amanda has also worked with the UChicago STEM Education team to develop and implement Summer Math Camps and Teacher University.

Amanda has worked with individual schools to support pre-kindergarten through sixth grade teachers in their mathematics implementation through classroom coaching cycles. Within this school based development, she has also worked to identify, develop and support teacher leaders, as well as math leadership teams. Amanda also serves as a project manager for a Chicago based cohort of 25 parochial schools working together to improve math instruction in their schools.

Prior to joining the UChicago STEM Education team, Amanda taught elementary grades 3-5 for 11 years, worked as her school’s math lead teacher, and as a facilitator of Everyday Mathematics professional development for teachers in Chicago Public Schools. Amanda holds a Bachelors of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of Michigan, a Masters of Arts in Special Education/Learning Behavior Specialist degree from Northeastern Illinois University, and a Middle Grades Math Endorsement from the Boeing Scholars Program at Loyola University.