Teachers are called to be teachers. They are not called for money or for fame, but an unshakeable desire to care for children. To love them. Mathematics teacher educators are called to move in the field toward promoting and enacting Read more…
What’s love got to do, got to do with it?-Tina Turner Often when I ask aspiring teachers why they want to step into the profession they eventually talk about their love of children and how they want to teach in Read more…
Happy New Year! To start off 2020 I wanted to share my word of the year, which is CREATE, but also I wanted to share some of the motivation for naming CREATE as my word of the year. The Broken Read more…
Good tasks provide the opportunity for good mathematics. Good mathematics provides students the opportunity to engage in the Standards for Mathematical Practice, with the ultimate practice being to “make sense of problems and persevere in solving them”. Something we want Read more…
A brief message during the holiday season to consider how we can use our gifts to love others based on the verse 1 Peter 4:10. Enjoy! Shop the Amidon Planet Store to support the podcast and get yourself a t-shirt Read more…
What pitfalls need to be avoided in leading people to be doers? A few years ago I listened to an episode of the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast, where he talked about the Developer’s Dark Side, or more specifically, pitfalls that Read more…
What do you do with the mad you feel? The above quote is a line from one of the many songs that Mr. Roger’s wrote for his television program, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. At the same time the words are very Read more…
The purpose of this page is to share resources generated through several meetings from the PME-NA Equity Working Group. Addressing Equity and Diversity Issues Around Expansion, Displacement, and Growth in Mathematics Education (PMENA 2019) Link to the slides from the Read more…
To love on an idea is to engage with an idea… During the 41st meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, my colleagues and I had the opportunity to share some Read more…
How do you define yourself? What tribes are you in? The featured book for this episode of the Amidon Planet Podcast is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, which is the first time a novel Read more…