Dr. Carmen Thomas-Browne serves as a Consultant at the Justice Scholar’s Institute. She is a seasoned educator with over 25 years in the field. She was formerly a Comprehensive School Improvement Math Specialist working on the Regional Improvement Team for the State of Pennsylvania. She came to this work from the University of Pittsburgh where she was a Math Test Development Manager on the Pennsylvania Alternate System of Assessment (PASA) Project.
Dr. Thomas-Browne is a seasoned educator with over 25 years in the field. She has experience as both a middle and high school mathematics teacher, as well as a mathematics teacher educator. She has supervised numerous preservice teachers in their student teaching experiences. She was the lead author in the development of an instrument titled, Assessment of Beliefs and Practices of Teaching Mathematics to African-American Students, which was used on the Designing for Equity by Thinking in and about Mathematics (DEbT-M) project as a tool for teachers to reflect on their beliefs that inform the quality of their teaching and classroom practices. An article was published on this instrument in the journal, Urban Education. She also wrote a book chapter on teaching mathematics for social justice that was published by the Association for Educational and Communication Technology.