Today I woke up early to fly to Reno, NV. Like 4:30AM early. The North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, also known as PME-NA (#OleMissAtPME). I am presenting a poster on my dissertation study, which I titled Teaching Mathematics as Agape: Articulating an Read more…
The senior teacher candidates from the University of Mississippi School of Education went on a field trip to Birmingham, AL (#OleMissFieldTrip). Our first stop was a visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (@BCRI), Kelly Ingram Park (aka West Park), and the 16th Street Baptist Church. What was cool about this Read more…
What a great day! Had a chance to drive to Brandon, MS and participate in the fall conference of the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics. I observed Dr. Alice Steimle from the Center for Mathematics and Science Education at Ole Miss demonstrate several tasks that could be implemented in Read more…
I am excited for my first ever presentation at the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ fall conference. I will be presenting some of my findings from my dissertation where I examined my own practice trying to teach mathematics as agape. As a newcomer to the state of Mississippi, I Read more…
Had another great experience in Green Lake where the Wisconsin Mathematics Council holds its annual meeting. I had a chance to present some of my experience attempting to teach mathematics as agape, or unconditional love, during a session in the (early) morning. Then I got to interact with my pre-service Read more…
Tomorrow, I finally get to present, my work on teaching mathematics for social justice within a rural context at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New Orleans. The session (mentioned previously in this blog) is called “Off the Beaten Path: Social Justice Teaching in Uncommon Contexts” Read more…
Just got done putting the final touches on my poster for the Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Graduate Student Seminar at AERA. I am excited to be done with that task, I am excited to share it with the other graduate students and faculty at the seminar, and I Read more…
After a tense afternoon, I finally made it to the University of Delaware. I am very excited to share my work with the faculty and students later this morning. Specifically, it will be the first time I have shared my dissertation study, (Teaching Mathematics as Agape) outside of the University Read more…
Just got word that I will be a part of a session at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New Orleans. The session is called “Off the Beaten Path: Social Justice Teaching in Uncommon Contexts” and is made up of a collection of researchers investigating teaching Read more…
Two days out from PME-NA. Check out http://pmena.org/2010/ for the conference schedule and the conference proceedings. Looking forward to sharing the stage with Robert Q. Berry, Kateri Thunder, and Oren McClain from the University of Virginia and Craig Williey from the University of Illinois at Chicago for our Social Justice, Read more…