Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Brittany L. Marshall, Assistant Professor at San Diego State University in the College of Education, as we discuss her advice and expertise as a mathematics teacher educator and her work to disrupt traditional mathematics logics that exclude students from intentionally-neglected communities.

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Marshall, B. L., & Battey, D. (2025). “I want them to see their magic!”: Two teachers working within structural constraints to help cultivate their Black girl students’ positive mathematics identities. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2025.101273

Marshall, B. L. (2025). Thoughts and theories on Black girls’ intersectional experiences in mathematics classrooms. Multicultural Perspectives, 27(2), 101–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2025.2558482

Battey, D., Marshall, B.L. (2024). Math logics: Perpetrators of whiteness in STEM educational spaces. In J. Ravulo, K. Olcoń, T. Dune, A. Workman, & P. Liamputtong (eds.), Handbook of Critical Whiteness. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-5085-6_34

Joseph, N. M. (2021). Black Feminist Mathematics Pedagogies (BlackFMP): A curricular confrontation to gendered antiblackness in the US mathematics education system. Curriculum Inquiry, 51(1), 75-97.

Shedd, C. (2015). Unequal city: Race, schools, and perceptions of injustice. Russell Sage Foundation.

AMTE Service, Teaching, and Research in Matheamtics Education

Special Guest: Brittany L. Marshall.

Learning to teach mathematics teachers better with Dr. Lateefah Id-Deen, associate professor at Kennesaw State University. Lateefah shares wisdom and anecdotes about the benefits of listening to students and learning about their prior experiences, as well as starting with teachers' strengths. These actions within the various members of a community help to create belonging.

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Lateefah's website: lateefahiddeen.com

Disrupting Injustice: Navigating Critical Moments in the Classroom by Lateefah Id-Deen & Esther Song

Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice by Basil Conway IV, Lateefah Id-Deen, Mary Candace Raygoza, Amanda Ruiz, John W. Staley, Eva Thanheiser, et al.

Special Guest: Lateefah Id-Deen.

Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Steve Rhine (Pacific University) and Rachel Harrington (George Fox Univeristy), who share about their work with teachers in documenting and sharing ways to use digital curriculum in mathematics. They offer compelling reasons for staying connected to classrooms, and their team has created a database of videos of teachers (primarily in grades 2-5) from across the U.S. using digital mathematics curricula.

Toolkit for Engaging Digital Curricula: https://digitalcurriculatoolkit.org/

Special Guests: Rachel Harrington and Steve Rhine.

Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Melodie Baker, Executive Director of ImpactSTATS, a research and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing equity through policy and data-driven storytelling. Dr. Baker has been helping bridge the gap between research and practice, which ensures that important scholarship in mathematics education is understood and used by audiences beyond our field.

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Special Guest: Melodie Baker.

Learning to teach mathematics better with Dr. Amanda Sawyer, a full professor in the College of Education at James Madison University. She shares about some new resources she has created that provide global perspectives - and different practices - that are supported by universally-true properties of mathematics. Several of these are centered around Mable MATHis Mysteries, and are useful for students and adults, including preservice and practicing teachers.

Mable MATHis Mysteries website https://mablemathis.com/

Special Guest: Amanda Sawyer.

Keith Leatham shares about the upcoming PME-NA conference hosted by Brigham Young University, which will be held October 11-14, 2026. Proposals are due on February 23, 2026 at midnight PST.

TMT Episode 2 with Keith Leatham

PME-NA 48 official site

Special Guest: Keith Leatham.

Learning to teach math teachers better by engaging in a roundtable discussion around the Opening Session of the 30th Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, featuring Katey Arrington, Charles E. Wilkes, II, Rachael Brown, Jennifer Wolfe, and moderated by Enrique Galindo, titled “The Future We Teach For: Strengthening our Collective Voices and Actions in Mathematics Teacher Education.”

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Learning to teach better with Dr. Drew Nucci, researcher at WestEd. He shares about his experiences with teaching mathematics, and his research findings from interviewing mathematics & science teachers about how they are thinking about and using generative AI in their practice.

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Special Guest: Drew Nucci.

Learning to teach math teachers better with with Dr. Amber Candela, Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, as she shares her advice and expertise on being a mathematics teacher educator and her role as one of the three co-editors of the Mathematics Teacher Educator Journal, a joint venture between the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

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Mathematics Teacher Educator Journal

Practice-Driven Professional Development (PDPD) https://practicedrivenpd.com/

Otten, S., de Araujo, Z., & Candela, A. G. (2025). The Benefits of Modesty: Considering Incremental Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers. Education Sciences, 15(4), 473. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15040473

Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching to Inform Instructional Quality (Applying the TQE Process in Teachers' Math Strategies)

Special Guest: Amber Candela.

Learning to teach math teachers better as we share our keynote, Learning as a Mathematics Teacher Educator, from the 2025 AMTE Virtual Institute, themed Across the Arc: Sustaining Our Learning, Sharing Our Practice.