Erma is a former high school physics and mathematics teacher and Albert Einstein Distinguished Fellow in the United States Senate. She was a Senior Program Officer with the National Research Council assisting in the development of the National Science Education Standards and a Christa McAuliffe Fellow with the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education.

She has worked with the National Science Teachers Association on several projects including, the Mentoring Initiative e-Mentoring for Student Success (eMSS), development of sciLINKS (www.sciLINKS.org) and Project Manager of Scope, Sequence and Coordination of Secondary School Science, a science curriculum reform project of NSTA. She was Associate Project Director for the Council for Basic Education’s Schools Around the World (www.s-a-w.org ) project, developing and implementing the Evidence to Excellence protocol and a series of professional development activities that use student work from nine participating countries to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics and science. She worked with the Council in the writing of state and district curriculum frameworks and benchmarking state standards to International Standards.

Erma has considerable experience developing and facilitating workshops in science and mathematics, on site and online with formal and informal education entities such as Educational Field Studies; National Institute of Medicine; United States Forestry Service; National Park Service, the Jason Project, Kidsnet, school districts, and states. Currently she is an independent science/ mathematics consultant working primarily with the Office of Overseas Schools AERO Project. facilitating conversations on the math (AERO Common Core) and science (AERO and NGSS) standards. A major project: Math Specialists in International Schools.

Her are specialties: preK-12 Curriculum instruction, and assessment, math and science