Judith Mumme
Senior Project Director

Tel: 406.842.7617 Email: jmumme@wested.org Mailing Address:

Judith Mumme, Senior Project Director at WestEd, works with educators and policymakers to ensure that all students have a challenging mathematics and science education. She conducts research on how leaders best prepare teachers to more effectively teach mathematics. And, she makes use of the best and latest research to prepare materials to enable leaders to design and facilitate high-quality mathematics professional development. As a member of WestEd’s Mathematics, Science, & Technology program, Mumme directs a number of high-profile projects, including Researching Mathematics Leader Learning, Developing Facilitators for Practice-Based Professional Development, and Leadership Curriculum for Mathematics Professional Development. The Leadership Curriculum for Mathematics Professional Development project creates leadership curriculum materials designed to develop the skills, sensibilities, and long-term capacity of teacher leaders, enabling them to design and implement quality mathematics professional development. The curriculum’s video cases make professional development practices public, visible, and learnable. Participants in the project’s leadership seminars have increased their ability to design and enact principled, purpose-driven professional development; choose appropriate, challenging mathematics tasks; and choose appropriate strategies to create effective professional development experiences in mathematics. Mumme has been Principal Investigator (PI) or Director of a number of other teacher development, leadership development, and research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For example, she served as co-PI/Director of the Mathematics Renaissance K–12 and the California Alliance for Mathematics and Science (CAMS), the California State Systemic Initiative. The Mathematics Renaissance used a leadership development strategy to develop an articulated mathematics program K-–12 in over 30 districts statewide. Likewise, in CAMS, Mumme coordinated a professional development program to implement new instructional materials in more than one half of the middle schools in California. She also directed both the Santa Barbara site of the California Mathematics Project and the NSF-funded Project T.I.M.E. (Teachers Improving Mathematics Education), which focused on improving mathematics instruction in several districts. Mumme served as a member of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board, the writing team for the 1988 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ Standards for Curriculum and Evaluation, and the groundbreaking California Mathematics Framework Committee. Her work with this last group helped set the stage for widespread mathematics reforms in California and became a model for frameworks in other states. Her middle and high school teaching careers span 14 years. She received a BA in science and mathematics from California State University, Northridge and an MA in mathematics education from California Lutheran College. She holds California teaching and administrative credentials.

Which Projects involve Judith? Video Cases for Mathematics Professional Development