Faculty

My research interest is centralized around teacher learning of ambitious mathematics teaching with a situated view of learning. Aligned with recent reform suggestions, I believe empowering students to engage in mathematics as a dynamic and exploratory process demands a different view of classroom discourse and interactions between students and the teacher—imposing a difficult task on teachers to accomplish. In addition to classrooms being envisioned as rich learning environments for students, my research is centralized around the idea of how the same classrooms can afford rich learning experiences for teachers. With this interest, I examine what a rich learning environment requires teachers to accomplish in mathematics classrooms, how to challenge already established instructional practices aligned with a traditional approach, and mechanisms of teacher learning and teacher change to position students to engage in mathematical thinking in meaningful and powerful ways.