Who We Are

Meet the Strategic Intervention Solutions Team

Thousands of K-12 schools struggle to meet math performance standards, leaving them at a loss for how to improve results. Strategic Intervention Solutions provides professional development, coaching, and classroom resources to help teachers confidently equip their students to excel in math.

Shannon McCartney

Founder/CEO, SIS4Teachers

Shannon is an international educational consultant, author, and producer. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience and is well known for her practical information and enthusiastic style. Shannon works with hundreds of teachers each year within her M³: Molding Math Mindsets professional development & Coaching Series, which embeds numeracy concepts within 21st century teaching and reasoning in mathematics.

Shannon is the creator of the Math Mights, a set of characters that represent math strategies to help students learn to solve problems more than one way, the My Counting Buddy math manipulative, the subitizing superhero Dotson and his Deck o’ Dots, and she has authored many other classroom and curriculum resources to help teachers mold math mindsets in the classroom.

Most recently, Shannon has brought the Math Mights to life as a television series on PBS in conjunction with the Michigan Learning Channel. She has written and produced 200 episodes of The Math Mights Show, as well as countless video tutorials for math games and math strategies available exclusively for M³ Members!

Books & Publications

Counting Buddy Book

Numeracy

Counting Buddy – Jr./Sr.

A unique math manipluative that will engage students and help them develop one-to-one correspondence, recognizing number groups without counting (subitizing), adding and subtracting, understanding missing parts, and more.

Math MIghts Group Shot

Problem Solving

Math Mights

The memorable residents of Mathville help 1-5 grade students build a solid foundation of problem solving strategies, develop a common language around problem solving, and learn to confidently explain their thinking. 

dotson deck o dots green deck

Subitizing/Numeracy

Deck o’ Dots

Deck o’ Dots are specifically designed without digits to help children subitize (instantly recognize number quantity) in order to develop higher order thinking skills in mathematics. 

Meet the Team

Laura Dzieciolowski

Laura Dzieciolowski

Office Manager

Laura joined our team in 2017 as the Office Manager/Administrative Assistant. She graduated from University of Michigan in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and has 18 years of office manager experience.  and her role at SIS is to execute the data-entry work associated with managing professional development projects, product sales fulfillment, and operations of scheduling, invoicing and administrative assistant services. She enjoys being a part of this educational team.

Megan Bach

Megan Bach

Math Coach

Megan is passionate about helping both students and teachers grow as learners! Megan comes to SIS with over 14 years of experience teaching elementary and middle school, as well experience as a reading and math interventionist and instructional coach.  In addition to her work in schools, Megan served as the Subject Matter Expert for the website Math Moves U, an interactive math website for kids sponsored by Raytheon. 

Megan has a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction. 

Brandi Ignagni

Brandi Ignagni

Math Coach

Brandi Ignagni loves all things education and thrives on working with students and helping others transform their instructional practice to be equitable and accessible for all students. Now working with teachers to improve their individual craft to maximize the learning and engagement for their students, Brandi has classroom experience teaching students from K-8, at all levels of ability, as well as working as an instructional coach to support teachers with researched-based best practices. With a masters in Curriculum and Instruction and her Educational Specialist in Leadership degree, Brandi is currently working on obtaining her PhD in Educational Leadership. 

Kathleen Whitney

Kathleen Whitney

Math Educational Consultant & Coach

Kathleen Whitney has a B.S. from Central Michigan University, and a Masters degree from U of M in elementary education, concentration in early childhood.  During her twenty years at Redford Union School District, Kathleen taught 1st- 6th grade and served for three years as the building interventionist. She is a trained Reading Recovery teacher and Literacy Specialist and has extensive training in early numeracy and elementary math. Kathleen loves the power of the job-embedded coaching model of professional development for teachers and their students.

Jana Hazekamp

Jana Hazekamp

Math Educational Consultant & Coach

Jana has spent more than 30 years being a teacher in various classroom settings – first thru fourth grade self contained classrooms, first-third grade multiage, and K-5 math and reading intervention. Jana is passionate about teaching math for understanding by using manipulatives and drawings (Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract). She is also an advocate for integrating reading strategies into the math classroom in order to develop mathematical thinkers. She has been presenting at the local, state, and national levels for more than 20 years and is the author of Why Before How: Singapore Math Computation Strategies.

Patricia C. Baltzley

Patricia C. Baltzley

MS/HS Math Coach

Patricia (Pat) Baltzley is the former director of the Office of Mathematics PreK-12 in Baltimore County Public Schools. With over 40 years in education, Pat has taught high school math in Maryland, developed math program development at Johns Hopkins University, and supervised curriculum and instruction in Baltimore County. Pat worked as part of the mathematics leadership team in Montana’s Office of Public Instruction during 2012-2013, and worked as a Montana Common Core Standards liaison during 2013-2016. She is currently part of the Montana ASPIRE in Math and STREAM professional learning programs.

Sherry McElhnnon

Sherry McElhnnon

Webmaster and Technical Support

A former teacher/librarian, Sherry serves as a freelance writer/web designer for SIS4Teachers. She is also the cofounder of Literary Fusions, a team of international education consultants dedicated to helping K-12 teachers effectively integrate social studies, reading and writing, and technology in their classrooms. Sherry has a B.A. in English from Baylor University and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She resides in Texas, and is passionate about using her librarian powers of organization for good as she helps capture ideas and communicate them effectively!

Contact

Phone

(734) 306-5886

Email

info@sis4teachers.org

Address

46036 Michigan Ave.
Suite #125
Canton, MI 48188