Judith Fonzi, Ph.D

Associate Professor
Teaching and Curriculum

Director
The Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform

Judi Fonzi received her B.S. and M.A. in mathematics from the State University of New York at Brockport and her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in teaching, curriculum and change/mathematics education. She brings extensive experience as a mathematics teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and director of systemic reform initiatives in her work as director of the Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform. The Warner Center projects are co-developed, long-term, and diverse. They include a program for developing teaching geriatricians, supporting a regional task force to improve the breadth and depth of programs educating early childhood professionals, fostering and supporting systemic reform of K-12 mathematics programs, developing and implementing a regional Counselor's Conference, and a research partnership with National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID).

Her research focuses on systemic reform, professional development, developing collaborative learning communities, and teaches leadership. Among her many funded projects she is the principal investigator of a $2.4 million National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project, "Deepening Everyone's Mathematics Content Knowledge", which aims to increae the mathematics knowledge of mathematicians, teachers, parents, and community members so that they can help K-12 students develop a deeper, more useful understanding of mathematics, and of a $1.3 million New York State Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program grant for a K-12 systemic reform porject that engages 5 schools in rethinking and reforming their mathematics programs. Judi regularly presents her work at national conferences and has published extensively.

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