Sharon A. Edwards

Sharon A. Edwards, born in Moscow, Idaho, in 1949, while her dad was a student at the University of Idaho, fifty years later taught a kindergartner enrolled in her 1999-2000 class, born in Moscow, Idaho while his parents were at the University. Happy accidents and amazing coincidences like this one have marked her learning and teaching since graduating from the University of Massachusetts in 1971 and entering the field of teaching.

In 1974, hired at Mark's Meadow Demonstration Laboratory School, a public neighborhood laboratory school for the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she was fortunate to be associated with many individuals working for the goal of successfully teaching all children in public schools.

At the University of Massachusetts School of Education, she met and began three decades of collaboration with Robert W. Maloy, whose ideas about teaching and learning influenced the design of interesting and interactive activities for students, K-12 and for college students aspiring to become teachers.

Their partnership has produced four books demonstrating how smart and capable teachers can work in ways that make all children eager to learn when conditions in school favor learning.

Their experiences and methods are explained in the books that they have authored as a team and with other co-authors. Transforming Learning with New Technologies, the latest, continues their exploration of how to engage students, differentiate learning, and produce the kind of interesting activities using technology that partner teachers and students in pursuing academic success for all.