Jen Kershaw has a B.A. in Theater from The University of South Florida, a Master’s of Science in Education from Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts and a Waldorf Teaching Certification from Antioch University. Ms. Kershaw began her teaching in residential programs with emotionally disturbed adolescents. It was there that she fell in love with mathematics and made it her mission to become an innovative, creative math teacher. She received an Excellence in Education Award in 1999 for mathematics and has twelve years of classroom teaching experience, six of which are in the area of middle school mathematics. Ms. Kershaw published her first entire curriculum unit titled, “The Great Equation Race” with Interact, Inc. in 2006. In 2009, Ms. Kershaw began working with CK-12 Foundation first as an editor, then as a domain expert. She currently works for CK-12 as a writer, editor, and domain expert.