Allie Olshefke-Clark

Allie Olshefke-Clark is a Ph.D. in Education student specializing in Mathematics Education in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. She is interested in calculus learning, particularly in the areas of task design and students’ construction of knowledge. She is currently working with Dr. Teo Paoletti.

After graduating from The University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in Physics, Allie taught twelfth-grade math and received an M.Ed. through Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education Teaching Fellows program. After leaving the classroom, she worked as both the Curriculum Developer and Evaluation & Research Assistant for a National Science Foundation Small Business Technology Transfer Project focused on integrating STEM and music in a 3rd-grade virtual camp setting. Before beginning the Ph.D. program at UD, she worked as the Associate Research Director for the ACE Ascent Program in Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, which focuses on building up collective leadership models (including teacher leadership/coaching) in Catholic schools.

Education

• M.Ed., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2020
• B.S., Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2018

Professional Experience

• Associate Research Director, ACE Ascent Program, University of Notre Dame Institute for Educational Initiatives, 2021-2023
• Curriculum Designer and Evaluation & Research Assistant, Making Waves, 2020-2021
• Mathematics Instructor, Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School, Atlanta, GA, 2018-2021

Recent Honors and Awards

• Dean’s Scholar, University of Delaware, 2023-present

Presentations

• Olshefke, A. (2024, February). Analyzing calculus textbooks’ introduction of the dynamic derivative using a framework of shape-thinking and (co)variational reasoning. Poster presentation at the 25th annual Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Conference (RUME) in Omaha, NE.
• Margolis, C., Paoletti, T., & Olshefke, A. (2024, February). Digital task design to support students’ developing graphing meanings. 25th Research in Undergraduate Math Education Conference, Omaha, NE.
• Trinter, C., Olshefke, A., Schilly, H. (2023, April). Catholic school teacher leadership. Oral presentation at the National Catholic Education Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX.
• Trinter, C., Lapsley, D., Olshefke, A. (2022, October). Fortifying and expanding catholic school collaboration through social network analysis. Oral presentation at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society Fall Symposium, Notre Dame, IN.
• Olshefke, A., Trinter, C., Young, J. (2022, October). Exploring the efficacy of small school teacher leadership using social network analysis. Poster presentation at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society Fall Symposium, Notre Dame, IN.
• Olshefke, A., Trinter, C., Young, J. (2022). Exploring the efficacy of small school teacher leadership using social network analysis. Poster presentation at the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA.