Teacher Practice

Exploring the Relationship Between a PST's Written Noticings of Student Mathematical Reasoning and Their Reported and Actual Viewing of a 360 Video

An essential aspect of mathematics teacher education is the development of professional noticing. A 360 video is a new technology that can aid in developing mathematical teacher noticing. This study examines the relationship between preservice teachers' noticing of mathematical student thinking and the variation in their physical focusing behavior of 360 videos. Researchers used a convergent mixed methods design to examine the level of professional noticing with participants' 360 video viewing behavior.

Author/Presenter

Christine K. Austin

Jennifer L. Heisler

Karl W. Kosko

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2025
Short Description

An essential aspect of mathematics teacher education is the development of professional noticing. A 360 video is a new technology that can aid in developing mathematical teacher noticing. This study examines the relationship between preservice teachers' noticing of mathematical student thinking and the variation in their physical focusing behavior of 360 videos.

Exploring the Opportunities for Reasoning and Proving in Mathematical Tasks Designed by Secondary Prospective Teachers

This article examines the opportunities for reasoning and proving (ORP) embedded in mathematical tasks designed by secondary prospective mathematics teachers (PSTs) in a capstone course, Mathematical Reasoning and Proving for Secondary Teachers. Drawing upon the commognitive framework, we establish a unified conceptualization for examining the mathematical reasoning processes and the logic-related constructs embedded in mathematical tasks.

Author/Presenter

Merav Weingarden

Orly Buchbinder

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2025
Short Description

This article examines the opportunities for reasoning and proving (ORP) embedded in mathematical tasks designed by secondary prospective mathematics teachers (PSTs) in a capstone course, Mathematical Reasoning and Proving for Secondary Teachers.

Becoming a Responsive Mathematics Teacher: Centering Student Thinking in K–8 Classrooms

This resource presents and describes a model for teaching and learning mathematics responsively in the elementary and middle grades. Developed through the Responsive Math Teaching (RMT) project—a seven-year collaboration between teachers, teacher leaders, school and district administrators, and researchers from a network of K-8 urban schools—this book equips any mathematics educator with the tools to enhance instruction and increase equitable outcomes for students and communities historically underrepresented in mathematics.

Author/Presenter

Caroline B. Ebby

Brittany Hess

Lindsay Goldsmith-Markey

Lizzy Pecora

Jennifer Valerio

Joy Anderson Davis

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2025
Short Description

This resource presents and describes a model for teaching and learning mathematics responsively in the elementary and middle grades. Developed through the Responsive Math Teaching (RMT) project—a seven-year collaboration between teachers, teacher leaders, school and district administrators, and researchers from a network of K-8 urban schools—this book equips any mathematics educator with the tools to enhance instruction and increase equitable outcomes for students and communities historically underrepresented in mathematics.

Attending to Preservice Teachers' Assets: Beliefs and Practices for Supporting Expansive Sensemaking in Elementary Science

Preservice elementary science teachers' beliefs and practices influence the kinds of adaptations they make to curriculum materials and the extent to which they are able to enact justice-oriented science lessons. Through this qualitative study, we explored the beliefs and practices of five focal preservice teachers through an analysis of their lesson plans, recorded enactments, and interviews about their science teaching throughout their student teaching experience.

Author/Presenter

Jessica Bautista

Elizabeth A. Davis

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2025
Short Description

Preservice elementary science teachers' beliefs and practices influence the kinds of adaptations they make to curriculum materials and the extent to which they are able to enact justice-oriented science lessons. Through this qualitative study, we explored the beliefs and practices of five focal preservice teachers through an analysis of their lesson plans, recorded enactments, and interviews about their science teaching throughout their student teaching experience.

Teachers' Customizations of Storyline Science Curriculum: Adapting for Their Students and Instructional Contexts

Curriculum materials can play an essential role to help teachers shift their instruction. However, curricular enactment does not look identical in every classroom, because teachers need to be responsive to their students. In this study, we investigated the customizations teachers made while enacting storyline science curriculum. Specifically, we collected two data sources: a teacher survey and interviews. The survey was completed by 169 participants and included 20 follow-up interviews with middle school science teachers enacting the OpenSciEd curriculum across the United States.

Author/Presenter

Katherine L. McNeill

Caitlin G. Fine

Benjamin R. Lowell

Renee Affolter

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2025
Short Description

Curriculum materials can play an essential role to help teachers shift their instruction. However, curricular enactment does not look identical in every classroom, because teachers need to be responsive to their students. In this study, we investigated the customizations teachers made while enacting storyline science curriculum.

How Does Modifying a Scratch Game Support Teacher Learning?

There is a compelling need to strengthen professional learning (PL) regarding systems thinking, since it crosses all disciplinary boundaries and is a crosscutting concept in the Next Generation Science Standards. Yet research has shown that effectively deploying systems thinking in the classroom is challenging both for students and for teachers.

Author/Presenter

Gillian Puttick

Debra Bernstein

Michael Cassidy

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2025
Short Description

There is a compelling need to strengthen professional learning (PL) regarding systems thinking, since it crosses all disciplinary boundaries and is a crosscutting concept in the Next Generation Science Standards. Yet research has shown that effectively deploying systems thinking in the classroom is challenging both for students and for teachers. This paper presents a case study of how two middle school science teachers, engaged in systems thinking and a game design task, worked together to modify a Scratch game during a PL workshop.

Designing for Systemic Coherence: A Framework for Supporting Instructional Improvement in Mathematics Education

Design research offers an approach for developing innovations in authentic educational settings and generating knowledge about learning and the designs that support it. Yet scaling and sustaining these innovations across contexts remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present a design framework developed by a nine-year partnership focused on building a statewide professional learning infrastructure for mathematics education.

Author/Presenter

P. Holt Wilson

Michelle Stephan

Allison W. McCulloch

Catherine Schwartz

Katherine Mawhinney

Year
2025
Short Description

Design research offers an approach for developing innovations in authentic educational settings and generating knowledge about learning and the designs that support it. Yet scaling and sustaining these innovations across contexts remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present a design framework developed by a nine-year partnership focused on building a statewide professional learning infrastructure for mathematics education.

Designing for Systemic Coherence: A Framework for Supporting Instructional Improvement in Mathematics Education

Design research offers an approach for developing innovations in authentic educational settings and generating knowledge about learning and the designs that support it. Yet scaling and sustaining these innovations across contexts remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present a design framework developed by a nine-year partnership focused on building a statewide professional learning infrastructure for mathematics education.

Author/Presenter

P. Holt Wilson

Michelle Stephan

Allison W. McCulloch

Catherine Schwartz

Katherine Mawhinney

Year
2025
Short Description

Design research offers an approach for developing innovations in authentic educational settings and generating knowledge about learning and the designs that support it. Yet scaling and sustaining these innovations across contexts remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present a design framework developed by a nine-year partnership focused on building a statewide professional learning infrastructure for mathematics education.

Designing for Systemic Coherence: A Framework for Supporting Instructional Improvement in Mathematics Education

Design research offers an approach for developing innovations in authentic educational settings and generating knowledge about learning and the designs that support it. Yet scaling and sustaining these innovations across contexts remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present a design framework developed by a nine-year partnership focused on building a statewide professional learning infrastructure for mathematics education.

Author/Presenter

P. Holt Wilson

Michelle Stephan

Allison W. McCulloch

Catherine Schwartz

Katherine Mawhinney

Year
2025
Short Description

Design research offers an approach for developing innovations in authentic educational settings and generating knowledge about learning and the designs that support it. Yet scaling and sustaining these innovations across contexts remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present a design framework developed by a nine-year partnership focused on building a statewide professional learning infrastructure for mathematics education.

Designing for Systemic Coherence: A Framework for Supporting Instructional Improvement in Mathematics Education

Design research offers an approach for developing innovations in authentic educational settings and generating knowledge about learning and the designs that support it. Yet scaling and sustaining these innovations across contexts remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present a design framework developed by a nine-year partnership focused on building a statewide professional learning infrastructure for mathematics education.

Author/Presenter

P. Holt Wilson

Michelle Stephan

Allison W. McCulloch

Catherine Schwartz

Katherine Mawhinney

Year
2025
Short Description

Design research offers an approach for developing innovations in authentic educational settings and generating knowledge about learning and the designs that support it. Yet scaling and sustaining these innovations across contexts remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present a design framework developed by a nine-year partnership focused on building a statewide professional learning infrastructure for mathematics education.