Alana Espinosa is currently a Math Specialist within the Minneapolis Public Schools District where she has worked for the last 11 years. She has experience teaching first grade, third grade, math interventions, and coaching teachers. Alana is passionate about the Responsive Classroom approach and has utilized the strategies to create positive learning communities where both students and teachers see themselves as capable mathematicians. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling to National Parks and working on DIY projects as a new homeowner.