About our teacher trainers
Temple Ary, M.Ed.
Temple Ary has been a classroom teacher for twenty years. Presently she is the math specialist for the Ramaz School in New York. She started working with Margaret Stern in 1992. Since then she has presented workshops and trained teachers in both public and private school. She is also a math tutor.
Stephanie Feinberg
Stephanie Feinberg received her Masters in General and Special Education from New York University in 2005 and has been teaching Special Education in New York City ever since, in a 12:1:1 setting and then as a SETSS (Resource Room) teacher. Stephanie supports her students' development of number sense with content knowledge and strategies she's learned from the Developing Mathematical Ideas Seminars, Math in the City, Cognitively Guided Instruction and Stern Math. In the past two years, Stephanie has led multiple workshops on using the Stern materials to support children's understanding of numbers and operations to general education and special education teachers alike.
KC Genzmer, Ed.M.
KC Genzmer has participated and assisted in Structural Arithmetic workshops for over ten years. She is a school psychologist with an extensive private practice dealing with math students at all levels.
Alison Lankenau, M.Ed.
Alison Lankenau, M.Ed. has worked with Margaret Stern since 1982 presenting workshops and doing teacher training. Alison has a graduate education degree from Columbia Teachers College. She has been a teacher and administrator at the Nightingale-Bamford School, Berkeley Carroll School and currently is Director of Program at the Parkside School in New York. She has presented Stern Math Workshops at the Churchill Center as well as ATIS and NYB-IDA.
Olympia Shields, M.Ed.
Olympia T. Shields graduated from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody School of Education and received her M.Ed. from Boston University. Currently, she teaches at Carroll School, a school for students diagnosed with specific learning disabilities in reading and writing, such as dyslexia, as the Lower School Math Curriculum Coordinator. Olympia is Carroll’s in-house specialist in teaching children using the Stern Structural Arithmetic program and has been conducting teacher training seminars in Stern Math for Carroll School's professional development program. development program. Olympia's constructivist approach uses questioning to promote a students ability to develop conceptual understanding and problem solving skills. In addition to teachingIn addition to teaching and training, Olympia is an integral contributor to the CarrollMath Summer Seminar.
Margaret B. Stern, M.Ed.
Margaret Bassett met Catherine Stern in 1943. Her daughter, Toni, and Margaret were both attending Bank Street College of Education. It was through Toni that Margaret met Catherine Stern. Later in 1947, Margaret married Catherine's son, Fritz. Catherine, Margaret and Toni ran a nursery school called Castle School from 1944 to 1951 in order to demonstrate the math and reading materials.
Margaret B. Stern was a math consultant to the Gateway School, where Structural Arithmetic was further developed. She is co-author with Catherine Stern of Children Discover Arithmetic, and the Structural Arithmetic Teacher Guides and Workbooks 1965-66. She is co-author with Catherine Stern and Toni Gould of the Structural Reading series. She is author of Experimenting with Numbers 1988 and co-author with Stern and Gould of Structural Arithmetic and Teacher's Guides published by Educators Publishing Service, 1992. She is recipient of the Orton Dyslexia Society Award 1989 and of the Bank Street College of Education Award Outstanding Accomplishment in the Field of Education, 1998.
