I was very flattered to be nominated for this award by a previous winner who had been a hero of mine, and I felt I owed it to her to follow it through. I just wish that more teachers who are equally or more deserving could be similarly honored.

Daniel Kennedy Chattanooga, TN | 7-12, Mathematics, 1995

Daniel “Dan” Kennedy received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross before earning M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1973 to 2019, he taught mathematics at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, where he held the Cartter Lupton distinguished professorship. Dan became an Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus reader in 1978, which led to an increasing level of involvement with the AP program as workshop consultant, table leader, and exam leader. He joined the AP Calculus Test Development Committee in 1986, then in 1990 became the first high school teacher in 35 years to chair that committee. It was during his tenure as chair that the program moved to require graphing calculators and laid the early groundwork for the 1997 reform of the AP Calculus curriculum. Dan has conducted more than 50 workshops and institutes for high school teachers, and his articles on mathematics teaching have appeared in the Mathematics Teacher, The American Mathematical Monthly, and The College Mathematics Journal. A frequent speaker on mathematics education at professional and civic meetings, Dan has served on the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America and the Executive Committee of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board. He was named a Tandy Technology Scholar in 1992 and a Presidential Award winner in 1995, at which time he was teaching courses in AP Calculus BC and Finite Mathematics. Over his 46-year career, he has taught courses at every grade level 7–12. Dan is the coauthor of Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, and Algebraic and Precalculus: Graphical, Numerical, and Algebraic, and he is a series author of the Savvas Envision textbooks in Algebra One, Algebra Two, and Geometry.

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