Dayo Akinsheye is a mathematics resource teacher at Seaton Elementary School in Washington, DC, a school that has adopted the Carnegie Reform model, which emphasizes mathematics, science and technology education. She has served in a leadership capacity with the DC Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), serving as chair of the Planning Committee charged with revising the Number and Operations Framework for the 2004 Grade 4 NAEP examination. She is both a Carnegie Academy for Sciences Education-Mentor Teacher and a Carnegie Academy for Mathematics Education Mentor Teacher. She is the state finalist for a Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (TBA in late 2002) and is the creator of “Crises-Cross” fractions and the “Real McCoy Inventive Thinking Project. She has coauthored numerous books for children about famous African-Americans. She is currently a candidate for a MA.Ed. in Educational Leadership at George Mason University.