Dr. Andi Stix is the founder of Gtec Kids, located in New Rochelle, New York, where she teaches academic enrichment across all classes. She earned her doctorate from Columbia University in Gifted and Talented Education, with a specialization in cognition.
Dr. Stix was honored as Educator of the Year by AGATE, the Advocacy Board for Gifted and Talented Education of New York State. For more than 40 years, she served as a national educational consultant and cognitive coach, presenting as a keynote speaker and seminar leader at conferences and conventions throughout the country.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Stix also co-authored a series of books emphasizing simulations and hands-on investigations for the secondary school classroom.
Among her notable achievements, Exploring History received the Social Studies Program of Excellence Award from New York State three times, along with the Social Studies Program of Excellence Certificate from the Middle States Council for the Social Studies. The program was also recognized with the Outstanding Curriculum Development Award from the National Association for Gifted Children.
Dr. Stix has also authored many books including Active Learning Across the Content Areas, the Active History series, Teachers as Classroom Coaches, Social Studies Strategies for Active Learners, Using Literature and Simulations in Your Social Studies Classroom, Integrated Cooperative Strategies for the Social Studies, Language Arts, and the Humanities, Strategies for Student-Centered Assessment, Teaching Strategies for Cooperative Learning, Active Strategies for Curriculum Integration, and Pic-Jour Math. In addition, her published articles can be found in Social Education, the Middle School Journal Social Studies, and Gems of AGATE.
Besides her written work, Dr. Stix designed many math manipulatives for upper elementary and middle school youngsters. Her products include Fraction Rings for Decimals, Time, and Degrees, Picture Pi, Circle in a Square, Picture Grids, and Algecans. Andi’s explanation of how the manipulatives could aid children’s visualization and journal writing was explained in her Pic-Jour Math book.