Supporting Mathematics Teacher Educators through an Ever-Changing Teacher Education Landscape
Connections
An official AMTE publication for the mathematics teacher education community.
Fall 2025
Volume No.:
35
Issue No.:
1
Welcome to the 2025-2026 school year! It is an exciting time of meeting new students and new opportunities! This issue of Connections offers numerous ways to enhance your teaching - whether it is learning more about the annual conference, the STaR and ESTEEM programs, or how one state's work has significantly raised NAEP scores. We hope that you enjoy reading about the work being done and will consider sharing some of your own work in a future issue.
Matt Chedister, Connections Editor
Angela T. Barlow (Univ. of South AL), Megan Burton (Auburn Univ.), Kelly O. Byrd (Univ. of South AL), Sarah Roller Dyess (Univ. of AL-Huntsville), Susan Swars Auslander (Univ. of AL), Taajah Witherspoon (Univ. of AL-Birmingham)*
Read how MTEs engaged in statewide collaboration to design grades K-5 educator preparation programs with a sequence of four integrated mathematics content and pedagogy courses.
Mile Krajcevski & Ruthmae Sears (Univ. of South Florida)
This article describes how the visualization of mathematical objects through hand drawing can be achieved by drawing three types of images.
Start preparing for the Annual Conference in Portland, OR February 5-7, 2026!
Recipients will be recognized at the upcoming 2026 Annual Conference.
Introducing the ESTEEM II Project, which seeks to transform undergraduate teacher preparation so that future teachers are prepared to teach modern data science and statistics
The Professional Development Committee is excited to share some of our initiatives for the fall!
Find information about contributing to the journal and check out the latest articles.
Supporting Teachers to Engage Traditionally Marginalized Learners
Learn about MTE's September issue and plans for the upcoming year!
Start planning your AMTE Annual Conference experience!
Click Here to learn about the annual conference!
AMTE is excited to invite you to participate in Community Circles throughout the coming year. Find a full schedule here. All are welcome to join and participate!
AMTE is pleased to announce that Allyson Hallman-Thrasher, Rachael Eriksen Brown, and Amber Candela have assumed the role of Editors of Mathematics Teacher Educator!
Connections is a quarterly online publication of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. It offers a peer-reviewed opportunity for members to disseminate information to the mathematics teacher education community.
Editor
- Matt Chedister, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse, mchedister@uwlax.edu (2024-2026)
Editorial Panel
- Erin Edgington, University of Wisconsin - Madison, eedgington@wisc.edu (2025-2028)
- Linda Venenciano, Pacific University, lindaven@pacificu.edu (2025-2028)
- Jodi Frost, Indiana State University, jodi.frost@indstate.edu (2023-2026)
- Eugenia Vomvoridi, University of South Florida-Tampa, eugeniav@usf.edu (2023-2026)
- Trena Wilkerson, Baylor University, trena_wilkerson@baylor.edu (2024-2027)
- Yi-Jung Lee, University of Arkansas, yl049@uark.edu (2024-2027)