Jennifer A. Lenhardt

Jennifer A. Lenhardt

Jennifer A. Lenhardt, MEd, is a senior manager for professional services with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where she integrates her experience as a teacher and her research interest into equity and culturally responsive teaching with the professional learning she creates. Formerly, Jennifer taught mathematics intervention at a middle school in Oregon, working collaboratively with educators across the district to launch and refine approaches to Tier 3 interventions and supporting multilingual mathematics learners. Jennifer’s education and passion focus on middle and high school students who have yet to see learning mathematics as a source of joy, inspiration, or belonging.

Through ongoing analysis of factors affecting the development of students' and teachers’ multiple and intersecting identities, Jennifer seeks to describe how we can better understand our lived experiences in and out of school and create the spaces necessary to flourish.

As a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Jennifer presented “Breaking Cycles of Failure: Reframing to Reengage Students in Learning Math” at the NCTM National and California Mathematics Council conferences. During her presentation at the Model Schools Conference (“Amplifying Opportunity: Turning Up the Volume on Agency, Equity, and Courageous Teaching”), she shared her passion for reconsidering how we frame mathematics learning challenges and next steps teachers can take to operationalize their learning.

She writes for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Shaped blog and is a co-creator and former cohost of the Method to the Mathness podcast.

Jennifer earned a bachelor’s degree in political science with departmental honors from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in education with endorsements in secondary mathematics and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) from the University of Oregon.