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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Math Modeling Networked Improvement Communities (MMNIC)

Lewis, C. (2015). What is improvement science? Do we need it in education? Educational Researcher, 44(1), 54–61. process of improving practice through systematic inquiry HOW DO WE ACCELERATE RESEARCH THAT SHOWS EVIDENCE OF POSITIVE OUTCOMES> Education researchers engage in improving practice, but their findings are seldom shared beyond their school, district, or state (Zeichner, 2001).…

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Motivated-COMPUTE Equity

As I begin a new semester with excited new pre-service teachers, I am inspired by Ilana Horn’s book @ilana_horn, Motivated- Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In! She identifies five features of a motivational classroom: Students’ sense of belongingness, the meaningfulness of learning, students’ competence, structures for accountability and students’ autonomy. Dr. Horn shared…

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