Mary Suiter is the director of the Center for
Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at
the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is
the author or co-author of numerous economics
curricula including Money Math: Skills
for Life, Focus: Middle School Economics,
Economics at Work, Money Math: Lessons
for Life and Mathematics & Economics:
Connections for Life, Grades 6-8. Suiter was
a member of the writing committee for the
Voluntary National Content Standards in
Economics. She served as president of the
National Association of Economic Educators
(NAEE) and is currently a senior program
fellow for the Council on Economic
Education. In 1998, she received the
NAEE/Council for Economic Education Bessie B. Moore Service Award.
Donna Wright is the associate director of
the Arkansas Council on Economic Education.
She is co-author of Financial Fitness for Life:
Pocketwise and Economics and Children's
Literature: Storybooks for Primary Grades. She
was a classroom teacher in Hot Springs, Ark.,
for 12 years before taking the position of economic-
education specialist for Pulaski County
Special School District for four years. Wright
is a national award winner for her work on
innovative economic-education teaching units
and was instrumental in the development
of the Bessie B. Moore Arkansas Awards for
Excellence in Teaching Economics.
Susan Hinchik is currently the math specialist
at Conestoga Magnet School, a school
in Omaha, Neb., that focuses on math and
economics. Before becoming the math specialist,
Hinchik was a fourth grade classroom
teacher. She has also taught third and sixth
grades. Hinchik has a master's of education
in curriculum and instruction from
Doane College. She has also had extensive
training in "Investigations," a standardsbased
math curriculum developed at TERC
(Technical Education Research Centers) and
is an Investigations trainer for Omaha Public
Schools. She is a member of the National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
and has attended NCTM academies for professional
development in the areas of geometry,
algebra and data analysis.
Marsha Strange Masters is the economics
specialist at Baker Interdistrict Elementary
School in Little Rock, Ark., where she teaches
economics to students in kindergarten through
fifth grade. In addition, she serves as a curriculum
consultant for the Arkansas Council
on Economic Education. Masters was given
the distinguished honor of being selected a
Polly M. Jackson Master Economics Teacher
in 2000. Incorporating economics through all
areas of the curriculum, she has been involved
in a number of interdisciplinary projects with
students and has been awarded honors in
the National Awards for Teaching Economics
and the Bessie B. Moore Arkansas Awards
Program.
Michele T. Wulff is the economic curriculum
specialist at Conestoga Magnet School in
Omaha, Neb. She has worked in the Omaha
Public Schools for 28 years as a teacher for
fourth, fifth and sixth grades and for gifted/
talented students. Wulff was chosen to attend
the Council for Economic Education Training the Writers Conference
in Bucharest, Romania, in 2003. She was
awarded the Outstanding Service to Economic
Education Award from the University of
Nebraska-Omaha (UNO) Center for Economic
Education in 2004. She also received the 2nd
Congressional District's Outstanding Social
Studies Educator Award in 2004.
Neal Grandgenett is the Peter Kiewit
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Education at the University of Nebraska-
Omaha, where he teaches various undergraduate
and graduate courses on the methods of
teaching mathematics. He is active in the
examination of mathematics and technology-
related learning environments and has
authored more than 60 articles and research
papers related to these topics. One of his
articles, "Roles of Computer Technology in
the Mathematics Education of the Gifted," won an Educational Press Association of
America Distinguished Achievement Award.
Grandgenett is a frequent presenter at the
NCTM Conference. He is a review editor for
new curriculum applications and resources
for the international journal Mathematics
and Computer Education Journal. He has
received the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration Mission Home Award for his
curriculum review and development efforts.
Kim Sosin is professor of economics at the
University of Nebraska-Omaha, chair of the
Department of Economics and co-director
of the UNO Center for Economic Education.
She is an associate editor of the Journal
of Economic Education. She served on the
Executive Committee of NAEE and chaired
the NAEE Technology Committee. She
received the 1999 NAEE/Council for Economic Education Bessie B.
Moore Service Award and the 2002 NAEE/
Council for Economic Education Henry H. Villard Research Award.
Sosin is creator and Webmaster for EcEdWeb
(http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu), a Web site providing
resources for economic education since
1995. She has published papers on teaching
economics in American Economic Review and
the Journal of Economic Education and wrote
an invited chapter on using technology to
teach economics in Teaching Undergraduate
Economics: Alternatives to Chalk and Talk,
edited by Bill Becker and Michael Watts.
Sosin has given invited presentations on economic
education topics at meetings of the
Allied Social Sciences Association/American
Economics Association.
