Hello! 
I am Pam Brett, M.A., Ed.D.
I am a positive disruptor in math education. 
I shift perspectives about what it means to be a math person.
I help teachers and students believe that they can do math.
 

Over the past two decades of teaching and coaching

K-8 math, I have noticed, in the dozens of classrooms where I have taught and coached...when it comes to mathematics, something is missing.

In classrooms that are chock-a-block with new curricula, programming, and resources there is a common thread missing. 

 

And that something is...BELIEF.

 

​At an interview for an 8th-grade teaching position, the superintendent asked me:

Do you believe that all children can learn Algebra? ​

In my 4th grade classroom, I heard a child say: ​

I am afraid to make a mistake so I don't even try. ​

In a 1st grade classroom, a teacher said to me:​

See what I am dealing with? They are coming in so low.​

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 My work is defined by cultivating classrooms where the learners and the teachers believe in themselves and most importantly, they believe in each other.

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I believe, that when it comes to

teaching math, 

we have no other choice. 

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I foster environments where teachers learn to believe in themselves as mathematical learners. 

Those teachers then create environments where students know that someone believes in them so they believe in themselves.