About me
Alicia Burdess has been a teacher, assistant principal, and math coach with Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools since 2005. She has served as the President of the Math Council of the Alberta Teachers' Association and the Chairperson of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Publishing Committee. She has a Master of Education Degree from Simon Fraser University and is currently teaching as the Numeracy Lead Teacher for her district and as an Assistant Lecturer with the University of Alberta Teacher Education North Program. Alicia’s passion is teaching through problem solving in a Thinking Classroom; she enjoys working with students and teachers implementing Peter Liljedahl's research and framework. She wants everyone to experience the joy, confidence, and flow of solving big, beautiful problems and has recently published The Dragon Curve: A Magical Math Journey, a Children’s book to share the beauty of math in English and in French.
