Heidi Fessenden

Heidi Fessenden was a Research Assistant on the Causal Learning Project. Her work involved in understanding children's reasoning about distributed causality, and designing classroom activities to build on their thinking. She graduated from the Learning and Teaching (Instructional Leadership) program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2012. Prior to this, she received an MS in Elementary Education from Wheelock College in 2002 and taught first and second grade at the Young Achievers Science and Math Pilot School in Mattapan, Massachusetts. Heidi has worked with teacher groups engaged in inquiry into their own practice, including helping to plan a Practice-Based Inquiry seminar with the Cheche Konnen Center at TERC. She has led professional development for teachers with all levels of experience, worked as an instructional coach, and taught a graduate-level course on teaching elementary mathematics at Wheelock College.