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California Kindergarten Association.

Rockin' Kindergarten for over 30 years!

Shannon Samulski-McCartney

FOUNDER/CEO, SIS4TEACHERS

Shannon is an international educational consultant, author, and producer. She has more than 15 years of teaching experience and is well known for her practical information and enthusiastic style. Shannon works with hundreds of teachers each year within her M³: Molding Math Mindsets professional development & Coaching Series, which embeds numeracy concepts within 21st century teaching and reasoning in mathematics.

Shannon is the creator of the Math Mights, a set of characters that represent math strategies to help students learn to solve problems more than one way, the My Counting Buddy math manipulative, the subitizing superhero Dotson and his Deck o’ Dots, and she has authored many other classroom and curriculum resources to help teachers mold math mindsets in the classroom.

Most recently, Shannon has brought the Math Mights to life as a television series on PBS in conjunction with the Michigan Learning Channel. She has written and produced 200 episodes of The Math Mights Show, as well as countless video tutorials for math games and math strategies available exclusively for M³ Members!

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You are NOT too late! Don't miss out on CKA's Early Literacy Institute with Greg Smedley-Warren, and so many other amazing presenters! You can STILL register, and you can register ON SITE!!! Join us TOMORROW in Stockton at the Teacher's College of San Joaquin. Get more information here: https://#ckalovesteachersk#earlyliteracy #earlyliteracy ...

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