Professor Dolan’s clinical work is focused at the Elementary level, and currently centers on the Jacob Hiatt Magnet School, a partner in the Clark – Worcester Public Schools Collaborative. Holly spends a considerable amount of time at the Hiatt School supervising Clark practicum and pre-practicum students and facilitating on-site seminars for both the students and their mentor teachers on a range of topics including: “Mentoring Pre-Service Teachers”, “Integrating Primary Sources into the Social Studies Curriculum”, and “Ways of Knowing History.”<\/p>\n
Her recent research has focused on facilitating the integration of a specially designed pre-K\u00a0<\/span>Number Worlds<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>math Program with “Accountable Talk” in several pre-school classrooms in Springfield, MA. She worked as a mentor and coach for the pre-school teachers involved in the program. She led numerous training and development workshops as well as provided on-site demonstrations in the pre-school classrooms.<\/p>\n In addition, Holly has worked as a Teacher Development Consultant for the Core Knowledge Foundation Early Childhood Programs (Charlottesville, VA.). She provided training services for schools and agencies adopting the Core Knowledge\u00a0<\/span>Mathematical Reasoning the Number Sense<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>pre-school sequence. She also Co-authored the pre-school math training module for use by Core Knowledge teacher trainers. The module covers two days of guided instruction and exploration of the\u00a0<\/span>Mathematical Reasoning and Number Sense<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>curriculum for teachers adopting the program. Holly presented model lesson and provided instructional support and editing advisement for the development of the\u00a0<\/span>Mathematical Reasoning and Number Sense Training<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>video, an integral part of the training module.<\/p>\n Holly completed her Ed.D. at Clark University and has both an M.Ed. (Education) and B.S. (Elementary Education and English) from Springfield College. 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