Supporting “Pedagogical Courage” through Instantiating One’s Practice

Connecting Research to Practice: In the Spring of 2019 and Summer of 2019, we designed a professional development course focused on developing teachers’ mathematics teaching practices. Using NCTM’s Principles to Action (2014), we designed the Spring course as a 15 week course. We spend each week focused on a teaching practice where teachers selected a…

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Split it-VAULT-Vertical Articulation to Unpack the Learning Trajectory

Check out Dr. Suh’s latest Publication in the NCTM journal, Teaching Children Mathematics!   This article is from her current project called “Math VAULT”, Vertical Articulation to Unpack the Learning Trajectory, which focuses on using Lesson Study and Video Studies to learn from rich mathematics tasks implemented across grade levels that unpack the learning progression and enhance the teaching and learning…

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COMPLETE MATH at NCTM and VCTM

Suh, J.M., Birkhead, S., Baker, C., Frank, T., Seshaiyer, P. (April, 2017) Examining Coaching Structures that Supported Mathematics Teacher Learning. Presented at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Antonio, TX. Suh, J.M. & Matson, K. (April, 2017). Mobilizing Teachers as Researchers to Promote an Innovative Classroom Practice of Implementing Mathematical Modeling in the Elementary…

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TRANSITIONS- Understanding the Learning Progressions

This current VADOE project is called TRANSITIONS THE USE OF COACH-FACILITATED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO DEEPEN ALGEBRAIC THINKING ACROSS THE TRANSITION GRADES Article In Press Using a coach-facilitated professional development model, we used Lesson Study to focus on the teaching and learning of algebra in the transitions grades. Using this approach, teachers in grades 5-9 focused…

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