Both our Community Meeting and Sustainability Summit  kicked off with engaging updates from various community members. It was a privilege to hear about recent presentations and research findings related to the ongoing work taking place within GeT: A Pencil. If there are any updates we missed or overlooked, we encourage you to reach out; we are eager to learn about and share your contributions across the community. These updates are not only informative but also serve as opportunities for collaboration. They allow individuals to explore possibilities for future presentations building upon prior work.

Here are some noteworthy presentations we learned about:

Sharon Vestal from South Dakota State University was recognized with the Edward Patrick Hogan Award for Teaching Excellence. She was awarded this in February. Congratulations, Sharon!

Paul Dawkins from Texas State University has finished co-editing and publishing a book along with Andy Norton and Amy Hackenberg. The book is titled “ Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology for Mathematics Education Research”. This was a multi-year endeavor. Congratulations on your new publication!

Dawkins, P. C., Hackenberg, A. J., & Norton, A. (Eds.). (2024). Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology for Mathematics Education Research. Switzerland: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47386-9

Julia St. Goar from Merrimack College has an upcoming sabbatical and the opportunity to resume teaching the GeT Course again in the Spring!

Stephen Szydlik from University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will be on sabbatical in the Fall! He is planning on visiting high schools in northern Wisconsin and upper peninsula in Michigan this fall. At the high schools, they will talk to administrators and teachers about their experiences during the pandemic, how their teaching has changed since the pandemic, and whether they have observed changes in their students’ content knowledge or “mathematical identities”.

Mara Markinson from Queens College had the opportunity to present at AMTE! She discussed ideas for using Chat GPT as a meta-cognitive assistant for method students in lesson planning.

Pat Herbst from the University of Michigan gave one of the two plenaries at the ICMI Study on Advances in Geometry Education in April 2024 in Reims, France. 

Amanda Brown from the University of Michigan was recently promoted to Associate Research Scientist.  

Members of the GRIP LAB at the University of Michigan shared partial results of analysis of the GeT Instructor Survey at the AERA 2024 conference, in a talk entitled “How do Geometry Courses for Teachers Support Learning to Teach?”. 

Nat Miller, Amanda Brown, Srikanth Lavu, and Pat Herbst recently attended a workshop on Open Educational Resources supported by an NSF IUSE grant to the University of Southern Alabama. They hope what they learned will help our community rally around the production of texts and tasks to teach GeT courses that aim at attaining the SLOs.

We are always eager to receive updates from the community, whether they pertain to presentations, new publications, or personal or professional accomplishments. In every newsletter, we feature a community member, and we look forward to hearing from you. While our community continues to grow, it remains tightly knit and thrives on celebrating each other’s achievements. So, if you have an update — no matter how big or small — please share it with us by filling out this form.