Committees
Committees
 
Lesson Study Conversations Committee
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Karie C. Brown, Georgia State University, Chair

 
 
Outreach Committee
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Joanna C. Weaver, Bowling Green State University, Chair

Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
 
 
LS K-12 Practitioner Network
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Robert Evans, Denver Public Schools

 
 
Lesson Study Conversations Committee-Karie C. Brown, Chair
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Outreach Committee - Joanna C. Weaver, Chair
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Dr. Joanna C. Weaver is an Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University. Her research framework is interdisciplinary reflective practice using lesson study as the vehicle for reflection. She serves pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and the educational community. Implementing training, workshops, and professional development (PD) for pre-service and in-service teachers across disciplines and grade bands, Dr. Weaver promotes collaboration and reflection to strengthen instructional practice, content knowledge, and student learning. Dr. Weaver has developed jigsaw lesson study in her teacher education courses, and in research, she has partnered with colleagues in lesson study both internationally and nationally. She has published numerous chapters and articles focused on the positive impact of lesson study on professional knowledge, feedback, instruction, and reflective practice.
 
 
Outreach Committee - Saadeddine Shehab
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SShehab

Saadeddine Shehab is currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on studying students’ collaborative problem-solving processes and the role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in design-based STEM classrooms. Over the past year, Dr. Shehab has been working on exploring synergies between lesson study and Human-Centered Design to design and implement a professional development where researchers and teachers design human-centered design problem-based mathematics research lessons.
 
 
Robert Evans, LS K-12 Practitioner Network
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REvans

Rob Evans currently serves as the Senior Team Lead for Multilingual Education at Farrell B. Howell, an ECE–8 school in Denver Public Schools. He is committed to engaging educators in the creation of practical, quasi-practical, and theoretic knowledge through action research.

Dr. Evans was introduced to Lesson Study while serving in the JET Program in Japan (2006–2010), where he supported the expansion of English education at the elementary level. After returning to the U.S., he began localizing Lesson Study, leading to his CPED-informed EdD dissertation-in-practice exploring it as action-oriented inquiry.

 
 
Catherine Lewis, Mentoring Program Chair
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Catherine Lewis, Ph.D. is a research scientist at Mills College at Northeastern University (Oakland, California campus) who has directed 10 major federal grants focused on instructional improvement. Her randomized trial of teacher-led lesson study with Japanese mathematical resources (Lewis & Perry, JRME, 2017, 48:3) was identified by a What Works Clearinghouse-criteria review as one of only two studies of mathematics professional learning (of 643 reviewed) to improve students’ mathematical proficiency. A developmental psychologist fluent in Japanese, she has makes Japanese elementary education practices and materials available to U.S. educators, including lesson study (teacher-led, classroom-based professional learning), and Mathematics Teaching Through Problem-solving (an approach in which students build each new mathematical idea in the curriculum). School-wide lesson study enables a shift to powerful mathematics learning and dramatically improves mathematics achievement in urban schools.