Caline Khavarani Smith has been a math educator since 2004. She has taught every grade level from ninth grade through community college, and has coached elementary through high school teachers. One of her favorite positions was tutoring students at the Juvenile Detention Center in El Paso, where she and her colleagues shared the same belief – that every student can learn math and succeed. Caline leads professional development sessions, coaches teachers on math content and instructional strategies, facilitates teacher observations, and works with schools on curriculum and instruction to improve their math programs. She also led one of the middle school teams that wrote performance tasks for the Smarter Balanced mathematics exam.