Amanda Nolte

Amanda Nolte is a Ph.D. in Education student specializing in Sociocultural and Community-based Approaches in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her current research interests center on educational inequity. In particular, Amanda is interested in the complex interplay between school choice as a strategy for achieving integration, parental decision-making processes with regards to school choice, and the perceived costs and benefits weighed by parents in choosing schools.

Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Amanda earned her B.A. degree from Gettysburg College with a double major in English and Philosophy. After graduating, she worked for ten years in the field of education, with eight of those years spent working in public schools serving primarily minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged students.

Education

• B.A., English and Philosophy, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

Professional Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2020–present
• Research Analyst, National Council on Teacher Quality, 2019–2020
• Mathematics Education Consultant, Pensacola, FL, 2014–2018
• Secondary Mathematics Instructional Coach, Jacksonville, FL, 2013–2014
• High School Mathematics Teacher, Jacksonville, FL, 2010–2013
• Jacksonville (FL) Corps Member, Teach for America, Jacksonville, FL, 2010–2012

Honors and Awards

• Fontana Family Graduate Tuition Scholarship, College of Education and Human Development, University of Delaware, 2020
• Jean Ribault Senior High School Principal’s Award: Math Teacher of the Year, Jean Ribault Senior High School, 2013
• Philosophy Departmental Honors, Thesis: Teach for America: A Colonial Project in a Post-Colonial Era?, Gettysburg College, 2010
• English Departmental Honors, Thesis: A Poet’s Progress: Christina Rossetti’s Lifelong Journey Towards an Ideal Love, Gettysburg College, 2010,
• Member, Sigma Tau Delta, 2009
• Presidential Scholar, Gettysburg College, 2006–2010