Dana Center Role
Katey leads the Center's programmatic work at scale to ensure systems are providing each and every student with a modern mathematics, science, and early literacy education.
She serves alongside the Center’s leadership team, focusing on how conditions of systemic change are understood, applied, and implemented across all work streams.
Katey is the current president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM): Leadership in Mathematics Education. NCSM is the premier mathematics education leadership network, dedicated to supporting, sustaining, and inspiring high-quality mathematics teaching and learning for each and every learner. As president, Katey is responsible for maintaining the strategic direction of the organization, ensuring that all actions are aligned and effectively moving toward its mission and vision.
She is also a board member for the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), made up of 19 national societies committed to the increase or diffusion of knowledge in one or more of the mathematical sciences. Serving as the representative for NCSM, Katey promotes understanding and cooperation among the member societies to enable them to work together and support each other in their efforts to promote research, improve education, and expand the uses of mathematics.
Before Joining the Dana Center
Prior to her current role at the Center, Katey served as the associate director of the UTeach Institute. She directed the implementation and evaluation of program initiatives to expand and strengthen secondary STEM education. Katey also supported the national expansion of the UTeach secondary STEM teacher preparation program and its UTeach network supports.
Previously, Katey led the K–12 system services work at the Center for nearly a decade. She developed and facilitated system-level change innovation and professional learning for educators at the national level, working with multiple states and many districts.
Katey’s prior work also includes instructional leadership roles at the campus and district levels, including serving five years as the mathematics coordinator for a diverse district in Texas. She is a former high school math teacher and community college mathematics instructor.
Education
- Ph.D., Educational Policy and Planning, Educational Leadership and Policy, The University of Texas at Austin
- M.A., Mathematics Education, The University of Texas at Austin
- B.S., Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
Board Memberships
- President, National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM): Leadership in Mathematics Education
- Board Member, Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences (CBMS)
Presentations
- Let's Talk About Culture: Build Relevance Through Competence. Invited presentation at the American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA (November 2024).
- You Get What You Expect: Having and Expressing High Expectations for ALL Students in Mathematics. Invited presentation for the presidential series at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (September 2024).
- You Get What You Expect: Having and Expressing High Expectations for ALL Students in Mathematics. Featured speaker at the Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT), Houston, TX (July 2024).
- Advocating for Equity Issues in the Current Climate. Invited panelist at the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educator Annual Conference, Orlando, FL (February 2024).
- Ensuring All Students Meet High Expectations in Mathematics: Tracking and Pathway Structures. Keynote for Texas Leadership Summits in Regions 1–4, TX (November 2023).
- Growing and Diversifying Networks: Shaping the Future. Invited presentation at AMATYC Annual Conference, Omaha, NE (November 2023).
- What Is Your Question? Brave and Bold Educators Create Positive Change. NCTM Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (October 2023).
- Stepping Up Our Game: Recruiting Teachers for High-Need Areas in Increasingly Challenging Contexts. CAMT, Fort Worth, TX (July 2023).
- Culturally Relevant Leadership in Mathematics Education. Keynote at the Council of Chief State School Officers Mathematics State Collaborative on Assessment and State Standards Meeting, Chicago, IL (May 2023).
- Addressing the Workforce Shortage: Reflections on Recruiting and Retaining STEM Educators. Invited panelist at the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN (April 2023).
- What Can You Do? Productive Mindsets and Ideas for Equitable and Effective Instruction. Keynote at the Arkansas Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference, Little Rock, AR (November 2022).
- What Can You Do? Productive Mindsets and Ideas for Equitable and Effective Instruction. Keynote at the Arkansas Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference, Little Rock, AR (November 2022).
Publications
- Arrington, K. (2024, May 27). Engage in ways you haven’t before. In Nank, S. & Murawska, J. (Eds.), Empathetic storytelling, volume I (pp. 93–101). Brill.
- Arrington, K. (2023, September 26). Students need to know teachers believe in them. Tracking undercuts that message. The 74.
Publications
- NCSM: Leadership in Mathematics Education
- NCTM
- Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics