Holly Henderson Pinter, Ph.D. is an associate professor of middle grades education at Western Carolina University. Holly completed a PhD in 2013 at the University of Virginia. Her teaching and research center on the implementation of standards based mathematical teaching practices, pre-service teacher education policy and practice, and developmentally responsive teaching at the middle level. Holly teaches methods and pedagogy courses in the elementary and middle grades department as well as serving as the Math 1 teacher and instructional liaison at the university's laboratory school, The Catamount School, and serves as program coordinator for the middle grades education.