GeT: A Pencil community members and the GRIP Lab Staff at the GeT: Together at RUME meeting. Top row (left to right): Laura Pyzdrowski (West Virginia University), Steve Boyce (Portland State University), Mara Markinson (Cuny Queens College), Tuyin An (Georgia Southern University), Dorin Dumitrascu (Adrian College), Sharon Vestal (South Dakota State University), Orly Buchbinder (University of […]

The Teaching GeT group continues to be very busy!  Most of us are working on different contributions for the upcoming book, and many of us got to work together in person in Omaha at the RUME conference in February. As a group we are discussing how to realize our vision of having the SLOs being […]

This spring, the transformation group is meeting every other Wednesday at 11:00 AM EDT and has been particularly focused on disseminating results. In February, several members of the transformation group presented a contributed paper titled “GeT Lesson Study: Engaging Prospective Teachers in Defining Mutuality” at the SIGMAA on RUME conference (Boyce et. al., 2023). Additionally, […]

Since its first meeting in October 2022, the ESLO working group has been meeting every other week in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 to review the first version of Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) documents. In the online group meetings, high school teachers and GeT instructors have shared their individual reactions to each SLO and discussed ways […]

We’re happy to share that IAP’s recent release, Handbook of STEM Faculty Development, includes a chapter authored by several members of the GRIP Lab’s GeT: A Pencil project. Reflecting on the organization of GeT: A Pencil, including members’ leadership in designing and facilitating work projects, the authors contribute to growing understandings about support for STEM faculty development across institutions and […]

The next AERA Annual Meeting, the largest education research conference in the world, will take place in Chicago, IL, April 13-16, 2022. Two papers submitted by the GRIP Lab researchers for this conference have been accepted as roundtable presentations. Information about the days and times of these presentations will be available early next year. Beyond […]

Proposal Submission Deadline: November 28, 2022 Anticipated Publication Time Frame: Summer 2024  Most mathematics departments in universities that prepare secondary mathematics teachers offer a geometry class for teachers (GeT class, hereafter). However, there is a high degree of variability in the curriculum and instruction of these courses. In order to advance a shared understanding of what should be […]

The Teaching GeT working group is very pleased to announce that the first public version of our Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for GeT courses is now completed and available at https://getapencil.org/student-learning-objectives/. Our plan is that these can still continue to evolve as they are more widely shared and as more voices enter the conversation about them. If […]

Over the summer, the Transformation Working Group was facilitated by Steven Boyce and placed a special focus on a lesson study (Boyce et. al., 2021) involving Adinkra symbols originating from Ghana (Eglash et. al., n.d.). During this time, the group conducted research related to the lesson study and submitted work for publication. In the fall, […]

When we wrote the GeT Support proposal to NSF, we proposed to bring high school teachers of geometry into the conversations about Geometry courses for teachers. Because our initial moves toward forming the community showed that there already was a large diversity of perspectives among GeT instructors, we delayed that aspect of our proposed work. […]