Biography

Mícheál Marsh teaches high school mathematics at Culver City High School in Culver City California. He has been a teacher there since 1992.

He is currently enrolled in the California State University at Northridge's (CSUN) Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership and should obtain his Ed.D in May 2015.

Mícheál entered education in 1986 while attending the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). While studying for his Bachelor of Arts in mathematics, he was selected as an intern for Project T.I.M.E. (Teachers Improving Mathematics Education) and participated in the Tri-County Mathematics Project (TCMP) in 1986 and 1989.

After obtaining his single subject secondary mathematics and multiple subject elementary credentials in 1988, he went on to teach middle school mathematics for Fillmore Junior High School in Fillmore, California for the 1988-89 school year.

In 1992 Mícheál finished his M.A. in Educational Psychology - Mathematics Assessment at UCSB and moved to the Los Angeles area.

He helped the mathematics department at Culver City High School (CCHS) obtain and implement a California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP) grant with California State University at Dominguez Hills. In concert with this grant and the High School's Restructuring Grant (AB 1274), Mícheál helped transform the way mathematics was taught at the school. The Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II classes used materials developed by CPM Educational Program (College Preparatory Mathematics).

In order to improve the CPM materials for CCHS, Mícheál became a writer/editor for their second edition Algebra I Text in 1996. From 1996 to 2005 he also served as the Regional Coordinator of the Los Angeles area for CPM.

In 2001 to 2003 Mícheál left the classroom to develop technology uses for the CPM curriculum. Principally the use of lesson study in the professional development offered for free to teachers and schools using CPM materials. Mícheál and CPM partnered with Jim Stigler of the TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study) Videotape study of Japanese, German and U.S. schools to develop materials using Dr. Stigler's Lesson Lab software and lesson study approach.

After returning to the CCHS mathematics classroom in 2003, Mícheál moved to the district office in Culver City Unified School District. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Teacher On Special Assignment: Technology and Assessment. Mícheál wrote and implemented an EETT (Enhancing Education Through Technology) Round 6 grant called Project T.I.E. (Technology Improving Education). He also led the district through an implementation of a local accountability system (benchmark testing) so that district teachers could become data informed while teaching their students rather than waiting to the following year when their students' state test scores are released.

In 2009 he attended California State University at Northridge to obtain a second M.A. in Educational Leadership and his Administrative Credential which he obtained in 2011.

Mícheál returned to the classroom in 2010 and has been teaching mathematics ever since at CCHS.

A native of California, he is a graduate of California public schools. He attended Grant Elementary School and John Adams Junior High School in Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District and Santa Ynez Valley Union High School in Santa Ynez, California. He received a B.A. from the University of California in Santa Barbara in 1987 and a teaching credential from UCSB in 1988. In 1992 he received a M.A. from UCSB in Educational Psychology - Mathematics Assessment. Mícheál received his Administrative Credential and a second M.A. in Educational Leadership from California State University at Northridge in 2011.