Fellows Stories

Two Knowles Fellows bring their schools together to learn and celebrate how math has been used in different cultural backgrounds.

Senior Fellow, Kelly Melendez Loaiza was a part of the committee writing new Career and Technical Education standards for Environmental Engineering in Rhode Island.

Knowles Teaching Fellow, Josh Pullen, developed a website to help teachers easily shuffle their seating charts while respecting students’ accommodations.

Knowles Teaching Fellow, Ashley Mae Bernardo, has been selected for the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship 2025 cohort.

Teaching Fellow and engineering teacher Dawson Lang brought 23 students from Chatfield Senior High School to Houston to present their innovative engineering projects to NASA engineers through the NASA HUNCH program—an initiative that connects high school students with real-world aerospace challenges.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Senior Fellow Aaron Debbink launched a YouTube channel to preserve inquiry-based learning in his physics classes. His videos allowed students to continue engaging with the Modeling approach even when they couldn’t use lab equipment or collaborate in groups—and they’ve since become a valuable resource for teachers and students nationwide.