Our Team

Almy Education supports colleges and universities wherever they are in the process of change. We build consensus and addresses issues and concerns, modernizing your policies, course sequences, and classroom experience to operationalize change at scale.

Almy Education is comprised of an outstanding team of contributors & support staff who are here to make the process of change smoother, simpler, and faster.

dr. Kathleen Almy

CEO & FOUNDER

Kathleen Almy, Ed.D. is the CEO and founder of Almy Educational Consulting. She brings her love of math and helping students succeed in college to every project she works on. Kathleen is committed to improving outcomes for every student with a college math requirement. She is tenacious, passionate, and demonstrates her expertise through leadership, speaking engagements, authorship, and teaching.

Leading • Speaking • Writing • Teaching

Leading

Kathleen led local, state, and national initiatives for over a decade before starting her own consulting group. She initially learned how to lead and effect change through her work leading her college’s complete developmental math redesign. In her most recent position, she led the Illinois transitional math implementation required by a law and affecting over 700 high schools and nearly 50 community colleges.

Prior to that initiative, she worked for nearly a decade to implement a non-STEM pathways alternative to beginning algebra known as Math Literacy for College Students. Through that work, she traveled the country providing professional development to support faculty with its innovative pedagogy and worked throughout Illinois to change state-level policies that affected acceptance of the course.

Kathleen has also served in national and statewide positions including chair of the developmental math committee for AMATYC, the Developmental Education Advisory Committee in Illinois, and the Illinois representative to the development of the Quantway project sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation and the University of Texas at Austin’s Dana Center. She consulted with colleges while a tenured professor and continues to guide colleges as they reform their math programs, policies, and courses.

Speaking

Considered an expert and thought leader in developmental math reform, math pathways, and transitional math, Kathleen has given numerous talks and keynotes.

Keynote presentations include Missouri Department of Education, UMATYC (Utah AMATYC affiliate), MichMATYC, and ICTCM. She has also presented at NADE/NOSS, AMATYC, TCCTA, ORMATYC, CMC3North, CMC3South, IMACC, ALP, FLMATYC, the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences forum on transitional math, the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness (CAPR) and CCRC conference on developmental reform, and four national math summits.

Writing

To support college math faculty teaching the new Math Literacy for College Students course, she co-authored a textbook, Math Lit, published by Pearson Education. It continues to be the leading textbook in the math pathways genre. It incorporates the philosophy of contextualized problem solving, active learning, and alternative assessment in every aspect of the text and its resources. The text embodies the modernized approach to teaching and learning that Almy Education advocates.

Teaching

As math faculty with 25 years of experience in high school and college classrooms, Kathleen taught all levels of math from basic math through calculus as well as statistics, mathematics for elementary teachers, and liberal arts math. She continues to teach part-time at Rock Valley College in Rockford to maintain a connection to college students and mathematics.

While tenured, she participated in numerous college committees and leadership roles including curriculum, developmental math, sabbatical, hiring, and tenure committees.

Contributors

Harnessing the power of practitioners, the contributors at Almy Education are subject matter experts, faculty, administrators, and other professionals with experience in reform. If you are interested in becoming a consultant for Almy Education, you can apply here.

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