Joel Amidon

Episode 18: Ruth Heaton: Chief Executive Officer at Teachers Development Group

July 15th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  37 mins 55 secs

Ruth Heaton is the Chief Executive Officer at Teachers Development Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving all students’ mathematical understanding and achievement through meaningful, effective professional development for teachers and school leaders. We discuss TDGs' professional development with Ruth.

Episode 17: Nick Wasserman: Connecting Secondary Teaching to Advanced Mathematics

July 8th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 48 secs

advanced math, connections, secondary math

Nick Wasserman discusses why and how to connect and embed learning of secondary mathematics teaching practices into advanced mathematics content courses for teachers.

Episode 15: Amanda Jansen: Summer Book Club - Rough Draft Math

June 25th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  44 mins 20 secs

Wrapping up the June edition of our Teaching Math Teaching Podcast Summer Book Club with a conversation about the book Rough Draft Math: Revising to Learn with the book's author Amanda Jansen.

Episode 16: Don Berg: Deeper Learning

June 18th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  25 mins 18 secs

Don Berg is the Executive Director of Deeper Learning Advocates, which is on a mission to embed the psychology of learning in K-12 policy so that policy stops undermining learning. His expertise is in the psychology of motivation. It turns out that appropriate motivation is not a nice add-on for learning, it is a fundamental pre-requisite to the kind of learning we all want our children to do. I assume no one actually wants shallow and fake learning.

Episode 14: Jackie Murawska: STEM Coaching - Resources & Professional Networks

June 18th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  21 mins 52 secs

instructional coach, professional organizations, stem, stem coaching

Jackie Murawska talks about her position as a STEM Instructional Coach at a school district, along with resources that she has found helpful and the impact of professional networks and organizations.

BONUS: Announcing TMT Podcast Summer Book Club

May 27th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 min 21 secs

Announcing the first ever Teaching Math Teaching Podcast Summer Book Club.

Episode 13: Lydia Klespis: Coaching Elementary Teachers during COVID-19

May 20th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  24 mins 1 sec

elementary math coach, instructional coach, online coaching

Lydia Klespis talks about her experiences as an Instructional Coach for math and science at an elementary school. She describes how she continues to support teachers when the school buildings have been closed and instruction moved online.

Episode 12: Patti Voelker: Teaching Math to Students with Dyslexia in Regular and Online Environments

May 3rd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 12 secs

adhd, dyslexia, inclusive classrooms, middle school math, processing speed

Patti talks about how to address Dyslexia, ADHD, processing speed etc in the mathematics classroom. She talks about how to adapt mathematics lessons to be inclusive in regular and online classrooms.

Episode 11: Jen Wolfe: Teaching Math Teachers during Covid-19

April 28th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  27 mins 21 secs

Jen Wolfe shares how she teaches her content courses for future elementary school teachers online. She discusses Complex Instruction in Synchronous Settings.

Episode 10: Zandra de Araujo: Equity in Synchronous Online Teaching

April 19th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  21 mins 54 secs

Zandra discusses equity issues in synchronous online teaching.

Episode 9: Mandy Jansen: Rough Draft Math in Regular and Online Classrooms

April 16th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  25 mins 53 secs

Mandy Jansen discusses the use of rough draft math in both regular classrooms and online classrooms.

Episode 8: Abi Leaf & Brian Lawler: Mutually Beneficial Collaborations between Mathematics Content Specialist and University Educator

April 15th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  26 mins 33 secs

Brian and Abi discuss a mutually beneficial collaborative partnership between a university math educator and a mathematics content specialist. The focus of this podcast is the overhaul of a school district's math program.

Episode 7: Toya Frank: Examining the Trajectories of Black Mathematics Teachers

April 8th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  20 mins 45 secs

Examining the Trajectories of Black Mathematics Teachers seeks to better understand the promise and challenges of encouraging more black educators to choose mathematics teaching as a career.

Episode 6: Rapidly Moving Instruction Online - Part 2

April 1st, 2020  |  Season 1  |  24 mins 5 secs

Episode 5: Rapidly moving instruction online

March 25th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  36 mins 34 secs

Episode 4: Courtney Koestler & Matthew Felton-Koestler: How to run math summer camps for kids

March 22nd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  18 mins 48 secs