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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 28d

Fraction comparison strategy: Same parts away from the whole

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Sep 6

A screenshot of AI doing math incorrectly

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Christie Nold @christienold.bsky.social · Aug 19

I also cannot help but think of Oklahoma as Indian country & this as another attempt at pushing white colonial narratives on native kids.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 19

Oklahoma is already facing serious teacher shortages. These "exams" will make those gaps harder to fill. And in the process, they'll erode the state's public education system, achieving the real goal of pushing families into private and charter options and into homeschooling instead.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Aug 19

The "exam" was created by dangerous, right-wing, fascist groomer Prager U.
Oklahoma will test incoming teachers from NY and California with ‘America-first’ exam www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Aug 15

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

Trump cut its grant, but Wake County will still offer therapy in every school

With parental consent, Wake County students can get therapy from their school to deal with issues such as anxiety and depression.

www.newsobserver.com

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John Lees @bacpop.org · Aug 15

My PhD student @leonielorenz.bsky.social (with Eva Geissen) has made this nice (free) online course to introduce mathematical modelling for biology:
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

Including both molecular and epidemiological examples

Mathematical modelling for biologists - Modelling concepts in biological research

www.ebi.ac.uk

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ph.D. students Devan Mackenzie and Hajra Fayyaz plus @dyong.bsky.social and I have a new chapter out. We worked with a group of teachers to work out what culturally sustaining pedagogies might look like in math and computer science classrooms www.igi-global.com/book/cultura...

www.igi-global.com

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · Aug 15

The value of 0⁰ seems like a plot hole.

"I am the Oracle. I can answer any question you ask." "What is 0^0?" "Any question but that."

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Aug 15

Great blog from two of our PhD students on our CHIMERA hub about using mathematical models and vital signs data from intensive care to support clinicians

www.ukri.org/blog/mathema...

Mathematical models turn patient data into life-saving insight

Find out how mathematical research is unlocking new value from complex and underused intensive care unit (ICU) data.

www.ukri.org

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Duane Habecker @duanehabecker.com · Aug 15

Join us Thursday, August 21 at 4pm Pacific Time for our next Inspiring Math Minds webinar. Peg Cagle will be sharing her tremendous wisdom with us all.

Register for FREE: tinyurl.com/CMC-Webi...

#iTeachMath @cmcmath.bsky.social @CAMathCouncil

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Aug 1

Secondary math teachers. Preference is middle school math

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Jul 30

#edchat #teachers

Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Jul 30

#iteachmath #mtbos

We would like to invite you to participate in a research study to better understand how we can co-design, analyze, and improve instruction that leverages multilingual students’ languages.

Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is a 4-year project. Participation will involve: interviews, classroom observations, co-design of curricula, and may include video-recording lessons and participation in video clubs.

⭐Participants will receive a $2,000 stipend each year.⭐

If you are interested, email me at [email protected].

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Jul 30

#iteachmath #mtbos

We would like to invite you to participate in a research study to better understand how we can co-design, analyze, and improve instruction that leverages multilingual students’ languages.

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you send me an email (smarsha3[at]ncsu.edu), I can send you a scanned copy!

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · Jul 16

Members of my research lab and I wrote Chapter 64, titled, "Meaningful Teacher Professional Development: A Learning Sciences Perspective"

co-authors: @samanthamarshall.bsky.social, Grace A. Chen, Nadav Ehrenfeld, @brettegarner.bsky.social, @larajasien.bsky.social, Elizabeth Metts & Katherine S-M

the title page, which has all the information in the skeet, but also people's affiliations

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Jun 4

Oh man, I'm sad that I'll miss you!! I ended up cancelling just because I have too much travel this summer

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · Apr 27

If you want to read more, here is the link to the chapter on @researchgate.bsky.social:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Meaningful Teacher Professional Development: A Learning Sciences Perspective | Request PDF

Request PDF | On Apr 26, 2025, Ilana Seidel Horn and others published Meaningful Teacher Professional Development: A Learning Sciences Perspective | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

www.researchgate.net

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · Apr 27

Our argument:

◾ Most research summarizing high quality PD proposes lists of features of quality PD
◾ BUT, while there is a general consensus, there are points of contention. What is more, there are examples of PD that meet the criteria set out on the lists but don't support meaningful learning

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · Apr 27

i didn't make it to #AERA2025 this year, but see that photo (top right) of the person signing what looks like a phone book?

that is the publication celebration for the new Handbook on Educational Policy!

AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · Apr 27

It's the last day of #AERA2025! Here's some highlights from yesterday.

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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · May 1

🧪💪I know folks are struggling to appeal #NSF grant terminations

I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance.

*Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Action Plan & Appeal for Illegal NSF Grant terminations

[RedactedProjectName] Action Plan for Response to Illegal NSF Grant termination ***This document - with Background, Action Plan, & Appeal Letter - was compiled by a fellow researcher appealing their N...

docs.google.com

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 30

Who bears the brunt of these cuts? Well, here's a word cloud of the most frequent terms from the titles and abstracts of terminated grants, with word size proportional to frequency:

A word cloud, with words of different sizes, and different colors, with purple for the largest, red medium, and green small. "Black" stands out prominently in purple. In red, we see "climate", "student", "network", "justice", "identity", "teacher", and "undergraduate".

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is your periodic reminder: NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) *still* remains paused in new awards.

Here's an updated graph. But also see below thread about why the nation needs these #STEMed investments, including for sustaining the *future* of scientific research.

3 EDU awards since Jan 20 in FY25, whereas 82 in FY24.

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Mar 18

Thank you! I didn't know this existed!

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Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social · Mar 17

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · Mar 17

🚨NEW PUB ALERT!🚨

Teachers as agentic synthesizers: Recontextualizing personally meaningful practices from professional development, with Sammie Marshall as first author... 🧵

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Teachers as agentic synthesizers: Recontextualizing personally meaningful practices from professional development

Teacher learning from professional development (PD) remains undertheorized. Most PD studies focus on its content or structure to gauge learning, leaving substantive gaps in our understanding of tea...

www.tandfonline.com

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