Join us in person or online for the first in a series of free events!
Posted: October 11, 2023
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association welcomes Algrenon Tremain Nelson, author of “ProActive Schools: A Step-by-Step Guide to Data-Driven Instructional Cycles,” as the first guest in our Speaker Series. Learn how summative and formative assessment data can be used to inform your instructional decisions, and explore different collaboration methods and engagement tools to help you implement changes that support student performance. Join us in person or online for this free event!
When: Thursday, Oct. 26, 4 to 6 p.m.
Where: HSTA’s Oʻahu office, 1200 Ala Kapuna St., or via live stream
About our speaker
Algrenon Tremain Nelson has a passion for education that has been apparent through his service as a teacher, administrator, and educational consultant in the K–12 community for over 20 years.
As a teacher, he worked closely with low-income high school math students that were taking algebra for the second and sometimes third time. During his teaching career, he was able to build relationships with students and incorporate research-based instructional strategies that resulted in superior state exam pass rates with his students year after year. His classroom was so effective that it was featured on Annenberg’s Insights into Algebra Workshop Series and is still in use as a professional development tool for teachers wanting to improve their instructional practice.
As an administrator, he worked closely with instructional leaders and teaching staff to ensure high quality lesson preparation and delivery occurred every day. He oversaw compliance with campus, district, state, and federal policies, as well as monitored the success of instructional programs and other campus goals.
Nelson also enjoyed working as a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin at NASA’s Johnson Space Center where he was responsible for monitoring workstation and telemetry performance between the Mission Control Center and the International Space Station. His former work as an engineer continues to fuel his passion for the integration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics into the K–12 curriculum.
As president of ProActiveEd, Nelson has provided professional development services that resulted in improved student achievement, instructional practices, and leadership decisions in the areas of K–12 mathematics, data driven instruction, state standards, assessments, and research-based instructional strategies for school districts in Texas, California, Hawaii, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Oklahoma, and more.