Bonnie Adama is a master teacher with many years of experience at Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third grades. She has been an elementary mathematics mentor for her school district. She is presently teaching first grade at Dorothy Grant Elementary School, Fontana Unified School District in Fontana, California.

Bonnie graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a Bachelor's in Elementary Education with a minor in children's literature. She earned her Masters in Elementary Education in 1995 from California State University, San Bernardino. In 2001 she became a National Board Certified Teacher with an Early Childhood Generalist emphasis.

She was a participant in the Inland Area Mathematics Project at the University of California, Riverside in 1996, and has presented at many teacher conferences, such as the West Coast Literacy Conference, The University of California, Riverside's Kaleidoscope Conference, and the University of Redlands' Children's Literature conferences. Always looking for a new challenge, she founded BonnieAdama.com in January of 2003 as a way to use her expertise to help parents support their children's academic development.

She is the proud mother of two, grown, very successful sons, and the grandmother of Courtney - an articulate, energetic, curious 5-year-old.

Why is it that some children seem so curious and eager to learn?
 
How do you raise capable, confident children who seek intellectual challenges? How do you support your children's learning so that they grow to be imaginative, creative, intuitive, capable, competent, self-motivated, persistent, and know that effort is neccesary for achievement? As a parent, I've asked myself this question numerous times. As an elementary school teacher of many years, I continue to hear parents ask those very same questions.