Robert Knittle is on the staff of the University Park Campus Institute, a collaboration of Jobs for the Future, Clark University, and the University Park Campus School to prepare small school developers, leaders, and teachers to implement the strategies and techniques that have led to college readiness for students at UPCS. A math instructional specialist, he divides his time between teaching algebra at UPCS and traveling throughout the country for Jobs for the Future and the institute to share his successful instructional practice with fellow math teachers. He has developed a math instructional training series that makes explicit the six instructional strategies used across all content areas at UPCS. Working with residencies, instructional coaches, and math teachers, he helps develop skills necessary for the classroom so students of all means will succeed in college and beyond.
Mr. Knittle comes to JFF after 21 years of teaching math at both the middle and high school levels. He earned his B.A. in math from Assumption College in Worcester and a Master’s of Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a T^3 Regional Instructor, trained by Texas Instruments to deliver graphing calculator workshops.
Mr. Knittle is a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Massachusetts. He was a member of the Teacher Recruitment and Retention subcommittee of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Readiness Project, an endeavor to change, expand, and solidify education over the next 10 years.
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