Terrie M. Galanti

Dr. Galanti was the first woman in history to graduate at the top of her class from the United States Air Force Academy.  She synthesizes her thirty years of experience as an electrical engineer, parent, and K-12 mathematics educator in her qualitative and quantitative research on STEM education. In her doctoral dissertation she narrated college students’ experiences with accelerated formal algebra and their opportunities to learn mathematics in meaningful ways.  Her current research interests converge on STEM education as a sense-making endeavor and its connections to computational thinking in K-16 contexts ranging from early elementary classrooms to college physics. She strives studies STEM teacher identity and prepares K-12 educators to integrate computational thinking and STEM across subject areas.