Mathematics Program Director
Tammy began her work with LTF when she served as an editor for the first geometry guide. “I had never worked collaboratively with a group of professionals who shared my like mind and work ethic,” she remembers. “Being a part of that same kind of team at LTF has kept me here. Sharing our excitement for mathematics, learning from each other, and working towards a common goal is extremely rewarding.”
Tammy has worked hard to develop an excellent math team that has succeeded in developing “an incredible amount of materials in a very short time.” She recognizes that this is a “team effort,” and has focused on staffing the team with professionals “whose skills and abilities complement one another”. About her own role, she says, “I consider myself the quarterback of the math team. I’ve told them that I’m definitely not Payton Manning because I’m not calling the plays. I’m more like Brett Favre - I just love the game - I love to execute, lead, and play.”
The LTF mission of building academic excellence resonates strongly with Tammy’s own classroom goal, which was “to prepare students at the highest level - to challenge the brightest student in the class without leaving the struggling student behind…When the challenge is given, students usually rise to meet it.” She hopes that LTF maintains its current focus on providing the rigorous materials necessary to provide this challenge, and that additional mentoring and support will be implemented to further help teachers integrate the materials into their classrooms.
Tammy holds a BEd in Mathematics and a Guidance Associate Degree. She has also completed additional graduate work in mathematics and counseling, as well as over 1,000 hours of professional development with College Board. She spent 17 years in the classroom before starting at AP Strategies in 2003. Tammy’s accomplishments include: serving as an AP Calculus exam reader, serving on the Lighthouse committee to correlate TAKS to Pre-AP mathematics, conducting numerous two-day and week-long institutes for the College Board, and starting the AP Calculus program at Northwest ISD in 1995, where, over the next seven years, 99% of students took the AP exam and 95% of students scored 3 or higher.