Joel Amidon
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The Mathematics Teacher Educator Podcast accompanies the Mathematics Teacher Educator Journal and co-sponsored by the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Research becomes usable teaching judgment through careful conversations about mathematics, classroom design, equity, and teacher preparation.
Mathematics Teacher Educator Podcast turns journal articles into working conversations about how teachers learn to teach mathematics. Eva Thanheiser gives authors room to summarize their research, then presses toward the decisions behind it: what problem prompted the work, how…
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A clear, practical look at how mathematics teacher educators assess the math inside lesson planning.
The episode moves cleanly from a summary of the article to classroom use, with Kevin Vogt and Kristen Bieda's protocol at the center. It keeps coming back to the same practical question: what counts as strong mathematical quality in lesson planning?
A focused discussion of justice-oriented modeling that keeps the lesson design concrete.
This conversation follows Eva Thanheiser and two George Mason University coauthors as they think through justice-oriented community-based mathematical modeling lessons.
A grounded look at how spatial context changes what mathematics teacher education can see.
Taking a Spatial Turn in Mathematics Teacher Education is a calm, thoughtful conversation about what a spatial lens can reveal in math teacher education, especially when place, access, and lived experience shape the classroom.
A careful look at how an asynchronous discussion board can widen participation in mathematical discourse.
This episode follows equitable pre-service teacher participation in mathematical discourse and stays focused on a practical question: what helps more students enter the conversation on an asynchronous discussion board?
A careful look at how mixed-reality simulations can reproduce racist and sexist stereotypes.
Mixed-reality simulations in math teacher education get a clear, unsettling treatment here. Ava Thanheiser keeps the conversation moving, while Liza Bondurant and Daniel Reinholz connect the article's warning to the work of preparing teachers.
A careful, practice-focused discussion of anti-racist math teacher education.
This June 2023 Mathematics Teacher Educator Journal discussion stays close to practice while taking anti-racist math teacher education seriously.
A methodical discussion of mathematics professional development, student struggle, and equity.
This episode follows a careful discussion of a mathematics teacher education article that asks how professional development can keep concepts and student opportunities to struggle in view at the same time.
A practical look at how design principles become classroom routines in elementary methods courses.
This discussion treats elementary math methods course design as a deliberate craft: how to shape what future teachers notice, value, and practice.
Campus radio from the wrong side of reality.
Campus decisions, Northeast news, and Northeast priorities.
How research culture changes in practice.
Conversations from inside the IT channel.
Eva Thanheiser speaks with Stephanie Sackler, Brett Garner, Gladys Krauss, Claudia Eppich, and Jen about their article on design principles that support course design innovation for elementary mathematics methods courses.
Eva Thanheiser talks with Jennifer Sa and Holly Tate about their June 2023 article.
Eva Thanheiser talks with Travis Weiland and Lisa Pulling about "Taking a Spatial Turn in Mathematics Teacher Education." They start with their backgrounds and then get into the article's main ideas about spatial thinking in mathematics teacher education.
This episode features an interview with Stephanie Casey and Liza Bondurant about their article combining statistical investigation with social justice, focusing on fairness in Pennsylvania school funding.
Host Eva Thanheiser interviews Kevin Vogt about his co-authored article on the Mathematical Quality in Planning Protocol, a tool designed to help mathematics teacher educators catch errors in lesson plans before pre-service teachers enter the classroom.
Eva Thanheiser speaks with Joel Amidon, Anne-Marie Marshall, and Rebecca Smith about their article, Are We Preparing Agents of Change or Instruments of Inequity?
Eva Thenheiser talks with Stephanie Casey and Andrew Ross about their September 2022 Mathematics Teacher Educator Journal article.
Ava Thanheiser talks with Liza Bondurant and Daniel Reinholz about a June 2023 article on mixed-reality simulations.
Thanheiser hosts a collegial discussion with four Boise State-area mathematics teacher educators.
Eva Sennheiser speaks with mathematics teacher educators about an article on promoting equitable pre-service teacher participation in mathematical discourse through rough drafts on an asynchronous discussion board.
The hosts interview the authors of a journal article about adapting the 'Flint Water Task'—a mathematical modeling activity focused on social justice.