Teaching Math Teaching Podcast

Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Amber Candela, (University of Missouri-St. Louis), Dr. Allyson Hallman-Thrasher, (Ohio University), and Rachael Eriksen Brown, (Pennsylvania State University–Abington) as they share their advice and expertise as mathematics teacher editors and their work as editors of the Mathematics Teacher Educator Journal. Specifically, we discuss their latest article titled “So who’s the actual editor?,” from Volume 14, Issue 3 of the Mathematics Teacher Educator journal.

Candela, A. G., Hallman-Thrasher, A., & Brown, R. E. (2026). “So who’s the actual editor?”. Mathematics Teacher Educator, 14*(3), 135-138. * https://doi.org/10.5951/MTE.2026-0011

The Mathematics Teacher Educator podcast is supported by Amidon Planet.

Special Guests: Allyson Hallman-Thrasher, Amber Candela, and Rachael Brown.

Learning to teach math teachers better by engaging in a roundtable discussion about the events and opportunities of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators that help promote community and engagement around the improvement of mathematics teacher education.

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Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Jennifer Ward, Associate Professor of Elementary Mathematics Education at Kennesaw State University, Dr. Joseph DiNapoli, Associate Professor at Montclair State University, and Dr. Alesia Moldavan, Associate Professor of Elementary Mathematics and Science Education at Georgia Southern University. They share their experience and expertise on being mathematics teacher educators, their work around supporting noticing of productive struggle in teacher preparation, and the role the STaR program played in them coming together.

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Ward, J., DiNapoli, J. & Monahan, K. (2022). Instructional perseverance in early-childhood classrooms: Supporting children’s development of STEM reasoning in a social justice context. Education Science, 12(159). https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12030159

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Service, Teaching, & Research (STaR) in Mathematics Education: Supporting Early Career Mathematics Teacher Educators Follow the link for more information and to give to support the program.

Special Guests: Alesia Moldavan, Jennifer Ward, and Joseph DiNapoli.

Learning to teach math teachers better with members of the Rethinking Grades Community Circle, Dr. Angela Broaddus, Professor of Mathematics, at Benedictine College, Dr. Alyson Lischka, Professor of Mathematics Education at Middle Tennessee State University, Dr. Joshua Hertel, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Dr. Amanda Meiners, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, at Northwest Missouri State University, and Dr. Lisa Hawley, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, at Grand Valley State University.

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Special Guests: Alyson Lischka, Amanda Meiners, Angela Broaddus, Joshua Hertel, and Lisa Hawley.

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.

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Special Guest: Keith Leatham.