Brian Nelson Mowry

Brian Nelson Mowry received his doctoral in curriculum and instruction (with an emphasis on early childhood education) at the University of Texas at Austin. He has twenty-five years of service as a teacher and teacher educator in the Austin Independent School District. He currently serves as a district-level instructional specialist developing curriculum as well as supporting and providing professional development for 700 preschool and kindergarten classroom teachers. Before this, he worked as a district-level mathematics specialist for grades K through 5 and spent eleven years as a bilingual preschool and kindergarten teacher in the Austin public schools. Brian has presented at various national conferences, including NAEYC and NCTM, and has served as senior author for the Frog Street Press Preschool Mathematics Program and McMillan McGraw-Hill’s K through 5 Math Connects Series. His dissertation is a case study of how the demands of standardization, high-stakes testing, and the subsequent press for curricular alignment to grades 1 through 12 affect the planning and instructional decision making of kindergarten teachers at two underperforming urban facing district-imposed sanctions.