Chryste Berda

Chryste Berda is an adventurer, traveler, teacher, coach, consultant, author, and mom of two amazing Gen Z guys. She finds joy in singing at the top of her lungs and in the art of teaching. Chryste is energized by sharing her passion for learning with her colleagues as the district math coordinator and as a Regional VP for the Arizona Association of Teachers of Mathematics. She is intensely curious about students’ thinking and spends much of her time listening to students explain their ideas. Chryste is an Honors program graduate from Western Oregon University with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Interdisciplinary Studies with a Specialty in Mathematics. She holds two Master’s degrees from Arizona State University - one in Curriculum and Instruction, the other in Educational Leadership. She has taught mostly math to students in grades K-12, their teachers, and leaders (in addition to some other very fun courses) since 1998. Chryste is a native Oregonian who for the past twenty-ish years has lived with her family in Arizona's Valley of the Sun. She and her husband are raising two Arizona natives and aspire to become “snowbirds” in the future.