Math Nerds in the OC

Today begins the Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) in Irvine, California.  What is cool about arriving to this conference is that I flew into an airport named after John Wayne, with a big stature of him out front.  My mom loved the Duke, thus I watched a lot of westerns as a kid.

AMTE is a smallish conference that does focus on research in the preparing of mathematics teachers but also has practical advice for how to do the work.  There are things that I will learn that I will be able to take and use in a classroom next week.  I am not presenting at this conference but am here as a STaR fellow and as a LessonSketch Research & Development Fellow.  STaR stands for Service Teaching and Research and is a group that assembles new Mathematics Education Faculty for a week in the summer following their first or second year in their position.  It is a way to create an instant network of teacher educators, which I now get to see at AMTE. I will put up another post about Lesson Sketch later in the conference.  Also follow my tweets via #MathNerdsAssemble.

Here is a link to my shared notes as I attempt to develop as a professional.