Meet Lora Kermode – Founder
She left a tenured teaching position to follow her calling to change the way math is taught. Her mission? Make learning math EASY, FUN, and JOYFUL for everyone.
- Award-Winning Educator. Recipient of the prestigious Governor’s Teaching Fellowship & Teacher of the Year honors.
- Proven Results. Her students outperformed school, district, and statewide standardized test averages.
- Nationally Recognized Presenter. Leading workshops and presentations across the country—and now online.
- Mission-Driven. Helping students and teachers have fun with math again.
Lora Kermode (“Ms. Kermode”) is a loved and respected teacher who has a gift to teach in a way that makes Algebra come alive with color, visuals, movement, chants and other interactive strategies she developed early on in her teaching career.
Her specialties include:- ❤️ Teaching to all the different learning modalities
- ❤️ Actively engaging students
- ❤️ Helping students (and adults!) overcome any fears of math they may have
- ❤️ Building deep conceptual understanding
- ❤️ Helping students see connections among concepts
- ❤️ Helping students retain information
- ❤️ Bringing positivity and JOY to teaching and learning math!
Results That Speak for Themselves
Lora is fully credentialed and has broad experience educating students in inner-city public schools, including teaching Algebra 1 to ninth-grade students in a Title One high school in the Los Angeles area. The students she taught with her innovative techniques outperformed the school, district, and statewide averages based on state standardized testing data.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Teacher of the Year within her third year of teaching and the prestigious Governor’s Teaching Fellowship. Lora has also been featured on multiple morning news shows and CNN Headline News.
Teaching That Makes an Impact
Lora has mentored veteran and new teachers, including serving as a Support Provider for the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA) Program. She has collaborated with department members to develop standards-based pacing guides and was appointed as a Team Leader for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) accreditation process.
Since starting GEMDAS® Educational Services, LLC in 2007, Lora has conducted workshops for teachers, students, and parents nationally and internationally in this revolutionary approach to math, including her popular Fraction Motions® workshops. Lora has extensive experience presenting workshops for the homeschool community and has presented her popular Family Math Nights around the country and overseas.
Teachers have been inspired to implement the strategies immediately in their classrooms resulting in more ENGAGED, EMPOWERED and SUCCESSFUL students!
Due to the tremendously positive response and demand for her workshops, Lora was guided to make them more readily available to teachers, students and parents. Thus, she created and produced the Algebra Basics video series (available now!). Additional video series are currently in production.
Lora has devoted her life to making Algebra accessible to all and spreading her message of JOYFUL learning.
In her free time, she loves traveling with her husband and their dog in their RV, tending to her many plants, riding her bike, seeing live music, dancing, playing Rummikub® and walking in nature.
Lora Kermode is dedicated to making math EASY and FUN for everyone!
A Glimpse Into Life Beyond the Classroom
