Sharon Hessney is the “curator” of graphs, feature writer and moderator for “What’s Going On In This Graph?” (WGOITGraph?). Since 2017, WGOITGraph?, a collaboration of The New York Times Learning Network and the American Statistical Association, encourages students to tease out the story from timely and engaging graphs. In addition, she administers the feature by recruiting, training and assigning more than 70 moderators who have a broad diversity by math teaching, location and expertise. To encourage best practices, she speaks with teachers who use WGOITGraph?, visits classes and presents at conferences, webinars and podcasts. Previously, Sharon was a middle and high school teacher of math and statistics and a statistics coach in Massachusetts. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, a Presidential Award for Excellence in Teacher Mathematics and an Einstein Distinguished Educator Policy Fellow.
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