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Jeofrey Bean
Rob Biesenbach
S. Prestley Blake
Laura Candler
Constance D. Casserly
Kevin Coupe
Brian Crawford
Yvonne Crawford
Christine DePetrillo
Debbi DiMaggio
Dr. Shirley Disseler
Jerry Evanski
Don Gallegos
Steve Hickner
Beth Kanell
Jenny Land
Harold C. Lloyd
Doug Madenberg
​Al Norman
Brian Numainville
Feargal Quinn
Adrienne Raphel
Murray Raphel
F.D. Reeve
Steve Reifman
Michael Sansolo
Laura Stevenson
Jeff Swystun
Sean Van Tyne
Brian P. Woolf

Dr. Shirley Disseler

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22-book series: Dr. Shirley Disseler is Associate Professor at High Point University and Chair of the Department of Elementary and Middle Grades Education, and the STEM Coordinator for the BA to MEd Program.  She has over 25 years of educational experience, from elementary school teaching through higher education, including gifted education and exceptional children. Disseler is a LEGO® Education Academy Trainer and serves as the LEGO® Math Expert for Elementary Curriculum Development. She has been instrumental in the development and testing of the LearnToLearn, MoreToMath, and WeDo 2.0 products developed in Billund, Denmark. She serves on the LEGO® Education Ambassadors Panel and is the trainer for the High Point University Teacher Academy for LEGO® Education.
Disseler is the author of the 22-book series Brick Math: Teaching Math Using LEGO® Bricks. She is also the author of Strategies and Activities for Common Core Math, Parts 1 & 2, and conducts research on engagement and creativity in mathematics classrooms.  
Formerly a curriculum specialist for Rowan-Salisbury Schools, Dr. Disseler received her doctorate from UNCC in Educational Leadership with a focus on Curriculum and Supervision. Dr. Disseler spent seven years teaching elementary school where she was voted Hurley Elementary Teacher of the Year and Rowan County Math Teacher of the Year.
While teaching elementary school, she was a state finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics and Science and served as a First Flight Educator.
After teaching elementary school, Dr. Disseler taught middle school for seven years; five of which was spent teaching academically gifted math and science. At that level, she was voted Southeast Middle Teacher of the Year and received several top honors in the profession including the Hornets Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Malibu Teaching Award, Time Magazine Teaching Excellence Top 18 Teachers Award and was honored as a Time Warner Cable Star Teacher.

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The Brick Math Series
Dr. Shirley Disseler
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Common Core Math Grades 3-5
Dr. Shirley Disseler
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