Over the past few months, many of you have contributed chapters to an edited volume that the GeT:A Pencil Community will soon be submitting to the MAA. Some of you are still in the process of wrapping up a chapter. In the next month or so, the co-editorial team will be asking many of you, […]

I am excited to be writing to you with an update about the upcoming book entitled The GeT Course: Resources and Objectives for the Geometry Courses for Teachers. Since the RUME conference, the co-editor team has been busy finalizing the review criteria for the submissions that are due in May. At the conference, some of you shared […]

In this past year, the GeT: A Pencil community has been very productive in terms of the dissemination of scholarship about the collaborative work happening within the community. For example, at the time of this writing the GeT Transformations Working Group has shared their work developing and co-teaching a series of lessons focused on the […]

One of the most commonly discussed goals of the GeT Support Project is working collectively to improve the instructional capacity for high school geometry. It makes sense for this to be a point of common discussion for us, as it is the goal to which the Get: A Pencil community is collectively committed. There is, […]

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, we take a moment to pause and reflect on some of what’s happened since the last newsletter. The rising incidence of COVID-19 infections brought with it a massive upheaval for American higher education institutions—forcing students, in many cases, to vacate dorms, and instructors to rapidly transition from hybrid to […]

When I first began my career as a high school geometry teacher (in 2000), neither I nor my colleagues had ever heard of “π Day”. In perusing one of the many practitioner journals, I learned about other secondary mathematics teachers celebrating March 14th with their students in a variety of ways, including pie-eating and baking […]