coe-staff: EDST candidate colloquium announcement

[Lisa Fortin]

Sent on behalf of Jill Baxter


The Education Studies Department in the College of Education invites you to a colloquium presented by Nicole Louie, PhD, who is a finalist in our search for a mathematics educator.

Title: Redefining "Good at Math": The Research and Design of Equitable Mathematics Instruction

when: Monday, February 15 at 11 am
where: HEDCO 230T

Abstract: What does it mean to be "good at math"? Traditionally, schools have valued getting the right answer and doing it quickly-a practice that has excluded not only important aspects of mathematics but also many students. This talk will discuss a multi-site case study that examined the challenges and successes experienced by six equity-oriented mathematics teachers as they worked to redefine mathematical competence and give all students access to identities as powerful learners and doers of mathematics. Findings show that moves commonly understood as "good teaching" (e.g., guiding students through a solution process) may actually limit students' opportunities to develop a sense of their own agency, authority, and competence. Additionally, the data demonstrate how learning and identity processes intertwine in teachers' working lives to foster (or in some cases, undermine) their own learning and identity development. The presentation will identify four types of learning and identity resources and illustrate how they function to support teachers' engagement with equity-oriented reforms. Implications for further research and for the design of equitable learning environments, for both students and teachers, will be considered.


Dr. Louie earned her doctoral degree in Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with Alan Schoenfeld and Judith Warren Little. She completed a master's degree in Secondary Mathematics teaching and a bachelor's degree in Urban Studies at Stanford University. She is presently on the faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso.



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