Alicia Burdess has been a teacher, assistant principal, and math coach with Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools since 2005. Alicia’s passion is teaching through problem solving in a Thinking Classroom; she enjoys working with students and teachers implementing Peter Liljedahl's research and framework. She wants everyone to experience the joy, confidence, and flow of solving big, beautiful problems and has recently published The Dragon Curve: A Magical Math Journey, a Children’s book to share the beauty of math in English and in French.