Music City Math JAM Session

Music City Math JAM Session

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Music City Math JAM Session episodes

  • S1 Ep1 Why Do You Do Math?

    In this first episode, listeners learn who the podcast team of Amber Thienel and Jessica Slayton are and why they do math. Listeners are encouraged to share their stories on social media and tagging @MusicCityMath. Educators inside Metro Nashville Public Schools are encouraged to share their stories in the teacher Schoology groups.

    9 min
  • Music City Math JAM Session - Trailer

    Music City Math is Amber Thienel and Jessica Slayton, math education leaders in a large urban school district. 

    "J.A.M." stands for "just about math." 

    Here are the top 10 reasons to listen to our podcast:

    1. We have over 40 combined years of experience in education.
    2. We are women in STEM.
    3. We support a large urban school district with an extremely diverse population.
    4. We deal with issues of scale and serving a variety of different students.
    5. We have held a variety of different positions including teacher, school-based coach, district-level coach, and district leaders.
    6. We both have a little "math nerdyness" inside.
    7. We take a learner stance and are constantly trying to grow so we can better serve our teachers and students.
    8. We know how to have fun, so we temper our seriousness with humor.
    9. We are on a mission to redefine math competence, so if you think math success have been too narrowly defined in the past, this may be the podcast for you.
    10. We have a passion for students–in our district and beyond. We believe every students deserves to feel like a valued contributor in school (and in math class, in particular).
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    About Music City Math JAM Session

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    Music City Math is Amber Thienel and Jessica Slayton, math education leaders in a large urban school district. JAM is "just about math." This podcast is our JAM Session.