In the Spring of last year, I wrote a note about what I envisioned the next stage of GeT: A Pencil could be. At that time, I noted that our first funding cycle was coming to an end at the end of August, and I indicated that we would write a grant asking for financial […]

The emergent consensus our community has reached on the student learning outcomes for geometry courses for teachers allows us to come back to one of the aspirations of the initial working groups in GeT: A Pencil–the creation of a task repository. Indeed, the collaborative curation of resources for teaching GeT courses could be a next […]

Our winter newsletter comes late this winter; it is officially spring! We wanted to wait until after our GeT: Together at RUME1 pre-conference and workshop to publish this issue. Indeed, I wanted to wait until after the conference to write this note, in part because it is somewhat of a spring time for GeT: A Pencil also. Valuable ideas […]

When I found out that the RUME conference was going to be in Omaha, I was probably the only member of the GeT: A Pencil group who was excited. For me, it was a 4-hour, 235-mile trip down Interstate 29. The Embassy Suites was the perfect venue, located within walking distance of several restaurants, with […]

This new edition of GeT: The News! arrives on the brink of the second anniversary of the COVID 19 pandemic–not that anybody wants to celebrate that birthday. However, I do celebrate that, in the midst of this enduring disruption, our community has continued to be involved in several joint projects. As we took stock of […]

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, […]

In 2018, as a doctoral student researching community-based methodologies and educational advocacy, I frequently wondered about institutional, professional, and interpersonal resources and constraints that people negotiated in collaborative educational work. Particularly, I questioned how our current institutional and professional infrastructures might impact collaboration across differences: in institutions, in communities, and in disciplinary traditions and obligations. […]

We all know the past many months have presented challenging circumstances to do our work. Facing these challenges underscores the importance of personal and professional social networks to maintain one’s connection, productivity, and wellbeing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CEDER, the organization contracted to do evaluation work on behalf of GeT Support, has used social network […]

One of the goals of the GeT: A Pencil community is to improve the instructional capacity for high school geometry. Geometry courses for teachers can be instrumental in preparing teachers with that instructional capacity. It is pertinent to ask what evidence we can use to steer that mission. Unlike in the K-12 environment where curriculum […]

Welcome to the first issue of GeT: The News—the newsletter for GeT: A Pencil! The idea with this newsletter is to deepen our community bonds and share ideas. We plan to publish it three times a year and to include not only news from the GRIP Lab about our GeT Support project, but also essays […]