Pat Nash and Brittany Rollins are both 8th grade mathematics teachers. Pat is in her 49th year of teaching at Mance Park Middle School in Huntsville, Texas. Brittany is in her 7th year of teaching at Midway Middle School in Hewitt, Texas. They share their experiences and advice for working with prospective teachers during field placements and internships.

Special Guests: Brittany Rollins and Pat Nash.

Dr. Paulo Tan (University of Missouri-St. Louis) shares about his work in humanizing disabilities in mathematics teacher education, and highlights how mathematics is for, with, and by folks with disabilities. In preparing mathematics teachers, he strives to help them cultivate their practices and thinking to enact resistance in their daily practice.

Articles and resources mentioned in this episode:

Mason, E. N., Padilla, A., & Tan, P. (2022). Toward justice-driven inquiry: On the rightful presence of students with disabilities in mathematics. Mathematics Teaching.

Special Guest: Paulo Tan.

Learning to teach math teachers with Cindy Jong, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Kentucky, as she shares her experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator. Cindy also shares her collaborative project, MINE (Mathematical Intersections of Noticing and Equity), and describes some of the modules that have been developed through the work of the project.

Links from the episode:

Special Guest: Cindy Jong.

Learning to teach math teachers better with Anthony Fernandes, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, as he shares his experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator. Anthony also shares his experiences with languages/communication and how he and colleagues have considered how to use data to help preservice teachers investigate systemic racism within their mathematics methods courses.

Interested in using the modules Anthonly described in the episode send him an email to afernan2 AT uncc.edu

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Special Guest: Anthony Fernandes.

Learning to teach math teachers better with Joshuah Thurbee, Senior Program Officer of Teacher Development & Academy Instructor at Knowles Teacher Initiative, as he shares his experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator. Josh also shares the opportunities for professional development through Knowles Teacher Initiative.

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Special Guest: Joshuah Thurbee.

Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Siddhi Desai, as she shares her experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator. Siddhi also shares her research and practice on ethnomodeling and collaborating around mathematical curiosities.

Dr. Siddhi Desai’s Website

Starting a NCTM Student Affiliate

Safi, F., & Desai, S. (2017). Promoting mathematical connections using three-dimensional manipulatives. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 22(8), 488-492.

Desai, S., Safi, F., Bush, S. B., Wilkerson, T., Andreasen, J., & Orey, D. C. (2022). Ethnomodeling: Extending Mathematical Modeling Research in Teacher Education. Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 1-15.

Special Guest: Siddhi Desai.

Dr. Sean Nank shares about his diverse roles as mathematics teacher, mathematics coach, and journal editor for NCSM's Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership. He provides helpful advice to others interested in leading and coaching, including listening and lingering in the conversation with purpose and empathy. Building relationships is key, whether working with students or teachers. He shares a few strategies he is currently using to help get his students' voices heard, including what he refers to as "blank walls" and "passion project."

Sean Nank’s website: https://seannank.com/

Bolton, R. & Bolton, D. G. (2009). People styles at work…and beyond: Making bad relationships good and good relationships better. AMACOM. https://www.amazon.com/People-Styles-Work-Beyond-Relationships/dp/0814413420

Chapman, G. (2014). The 5 love languages: The secret to love that lasts. Northfield Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OICLVBI

Sean Nank’s talk “Mathematics Saved My Life” at ShadowCon VI at NCTM Los Angeles 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk61OxIct2s

NCSM’s Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership https://www.mathedleadership.org/pubtype/journal/

NCSM Coaching Corner - virtual meetings for helping coaches https://www.mathedleadership.org/coaching-corner/

NCSM Virtual Leadership Seminars https://www.mathedleadership.org/pl/leadership-seminars-2022-2023/

NCSM Networking Nights https://www.mathedleadership.org/pl/networking-night/

Coming soon: Empathetic Storytelling to Critically Challenge Educational Structure, edited by Sean Nank & Jackie Murawska

Special Guest: Sean Nank.

Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Nicole Joseph, as she shares her experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator. Nicole also shares her research on Black women and girls, their identity development, and their experiences in mathematics as well as sharing her work running the Joseph's Mathematics Education Lab.

Links from the epidose

Jones, Stephanie. "Identities of race, class, and gender inside and outside the math classroom: A girls' math club as a hybrid possibility." Feminist Teacher (2003): 220-233.

Joseph's Mathematics Education Lab

Mathematics Teacher Educator Podcast

Special Guest: Nicole Joseph.

Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Jeffrey Wanko, as he shares his experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator. Jeff also shares his experiences with the STaR (Service Teaching and Research) Fellowship program and how listeners can apply to be a STaR or help fund the program.

Links from the episode

Mathematics Teacher Educator Podcast

Special Guest: Jeffrey Wanko.

Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. J. Michael Shaughnessy, as he shares his experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator, shares information about Mathematics Education Trust Grant Awards, statistics education, and a new opportunity for mathematics teacher educators to fund their research efforts.

Mathematics Education Trust (MET) Grants and Awards with webinar recording.

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Special Guest: J. Michael Shaughnessy.