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New View EDUBuilding Collaborative Learning CulturesEpisode 69: Building Collaborative Learning CulturesAvailable April 1, 2025Professional development is an important part of educational leadership, but not all professional development opportunities are equally effective. When we’re seeking to improve teaching and learning outcomes in our schools, are we developing classrooms or cultures? Siloes or collaborative communities? Guests Elham Kazemi and Jessica Calabrese, co-authors of Learning Together: Organizing Schools for Teacher and Student Learning, join host Morva McDonald to share how they worked together on a novel practice that built community, improved student outcomes, and changed how both teachers and learners thought ab...2025-04-0148 min
Teaching Math Teaching PodcastEpisode 106: Elham Kazemi: Be a Student of your Students and Make your Practice PublicLearning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Elham Kazemi, Professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington, as she shares her advice and expertise on being a mathematics teacher educator, and her perspective on helping educational leaders make space for good mathematics teaching to happen in schools.
Links from the episode:
Elham's Faculty page at the University of Washington
TMT Episode 99: Rodrigo Gutiérrez and Melissa Hosten: Being Responsive and Engaged to Elevate the Work of Math Teachers
Megan Franke’s Math Ed Podcast episode
Learning Together: Organizing Sch...2025-03-1239 min
OAME TalksTalk 61: OAME Talks BonusWe had a bunch of speakers this season and besides what each of them were talking about, we asked each of them how they defined mathematical fluency. This episode compiles all of there answers. We’ll here from Peter Liljedahl, Octavia Beckles, Jenna Laib, Aleda Klassen, Marian Small, Lisa Lunney Borden, Nat Banting, Lance Patrie, Sunil Singh, Fawn Nguyen, Robert Durocher, Megan Whitington, Wing-Yee Hui, Florence Glanfield, Alex Overwijk, Elli Weisdorf, Jordan Rappaport, Heather Boychuk, Crystal Watson, Lauren Baucom and Elham Kazemi. More information about OAME 2024 can be found at oame2024.ca and registration is at https://oame.on.ca/mc...2024-02-1228 minOAME TalksTalk 60: OAME 2024 Preview #3This is the third of three preview episodes for the OAME 2024 Conference: Embracing Change...Moving Forward...Continuing to Grow. We are going to hear from the Deep Dive speakers who are doing two double sessions each on their chosen topic so that participants can get a deeper view of that topic. In this episode we'll hear from Elham Kazemi, Alex Overwijk, Lisa Lunney Borden and Fawn Nguyen. More information about OAME 2024 can be found at oame2024.ca and registration is at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ .
Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google...2024-02-0532 min
Room to Grow - a Math PodcastUncovering Student ThinkingIn this episode of Room to Grow, Curtis and Joanie consider ways to uncover how students are actually thinking about the mathematics they are learning. Using a real-life, recent incident between Curtis and his sixth grade son, our hosts consider the challenging fact that many students think that success in math class means figuring out what answer the teacher (or the computer program/app, or the back of the book) is looking for. They posit that when educators are always focused on the mathematics of the moment – what is being learned in a single lesson, week, or uni...2024-01-1633 min
Thinking in the Midst33. On Math Education and DemocracyElham Kazemi and Kurt Stemhagen join Cara and Derek to talk about the democratic affordances of mathematics classrooms.
LINKS:
Find more of Elham's work here, here, and here.
Find more of Kurt's work here, here, and here.
Here is the transcript of the episode,
and you can recommend future guests and topics with this form.2024-01-121h 00
Math Teacher LoungeS3 - 03. Math professional learning experiences with Elham KazemiHow do we continue to grow and be more reflective about our own teaching? In this episode, Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer chat with Elham Kazemi to explore how to look at teaching as a collaborative experiment. Moving more toward analyzing student thinking and how that contributes to teaching itself, leaves more space for one’s own understanding of math to grow throughout your career. When one revises their teaching based on the data we’re collecting from students and peers, this allows us to be both teachers and learners forever.Explore more from the Math...2022-05-0330 min