Pam Bailey

KAMTE (Kentucky)

In response to the pandemic, KAMTE started hosting in the fall of 2020 a virtual summit for preservice K-12 teachers in KY. KAMTE continued hosting this conference every semester. In the fall of 2022, KAMTE collaborated with HAMTE to increase the range of their virtual conference. Members of both boards planned and hosted the conference together. Our conference focused on K-12 preservice math teachers and included K-12 talks along with breakout sessions focusing on elementary (grades K-5) and secondary (grades 6-12). We have been fortunate to have leading mathematics educators from around the country give our keynote sessions. This fall, Dr. Denise Spangler was our keynote speaker, and she talked about “Purposeful Questioning with High Cognitive Demand Tasks.” Our grade band breakout sessions featured Dr. Beth MacDonald and Dr. Hilary Tanck speaking on “Number Talks: Teachers’ Use of Questions, Students’ Agency, and Teacher Planning” and Dr. Jean Lee speaking about “Using Project-Based Learning to Thrive in Your Teaching Journey.” To celebrate our first collaboration, we created “Engage”, shorter sessions in which a speaker from each state shares practical, engaging, activities where our preservice teachers will leave the session with some inspiration and some tangible ideas to use. For example, at the Fall conference, Dr. Kate Marin from the University of Louisville shared meaningful warm-ups such as “What do you notice and what do you wonder?” or “Slow reveal graphs”. Dr. Patrick Eggleton from Taylor University did a session beginning with a basic piece of paper to then fold and tear a complete tangram set. There are also networking opportunities for both pre-service teachers and faculty during the lunch hour as well as opportunities for students to virtually present a poster or slide. We are currently in the planning stages for our second joint conference to be held on March 31.

AMTE-NC (North Carolina)

The 2022-2023 academic year has been a busy one for the North Carolina Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators [AMTE-NC] affiliate! We kicked off the year with our annual Back to School event, hosted by NC State University in Raleigh. We were joined by a panel of various stakeholders from across the state to discuss the status of teaching and learning mathematics in North Carolina. It was great to be in community and start the year off on a positive note.  In November, we held our fifth annual pre-service teacher poster session during the NC Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference. Thirteen pre-service teachers representing four different institutions shared mathematics task ideas appropriate for grades K-12. As we move into the spring semester, we are working on the third volume of our AMTE-NC Newsletter, a member benefit led by our editor Lanre Oriowo, and we have already started planning for our Fall 2023 events.

NJAMTE (New Jersey)  

Greetings from New Jersey! We are hosting our annual conference on Friday, June 2nd 2023 at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Our annual conference theme is “Catalyzing Change in Math Teacher Education in a Post-Pandemic Era.” You can find the call of proposals (due March 15th 2023) and more information about the conference by visiting our website: https://www.njamte.org  

NYSAMTE (New York) 

New York State Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators is now an approved sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) by the New York State Education Department (NYSED). This semester, NYSAMTE is working to plan professional development opportunities for the fall as well as collaborate with other New York State professional organizations. To learn about NYSAMTE, please visit www.nysamte.org or email info@nysamte.org.