IMTE (Illinois)

The Illinois Math Teacher Educators (IMTE) is proud to be the oldest AMTE affiliate and celebrate its 20th year as an organization during 2021. One of the first group of elected AMTE officers in 1994 included Susan Beal, a faculty member at St. Xavier’s in Chicago. While on the AMTE board, Susan realized state affiliates were needed to add strength to AMTE. At that time, Susan and other math educators in IL were involved with their state math teaching organization (ICTM) where they gave workshops for teachers, but desired to have a place where they could also be more focused on professional development specifically focused on the work of math educators. They felt like they had places to “give”, but also needed a place to “receive”. Hence, she led a group of IL educators to form IMTE and held its first annual meeting in 2001. IMTE was recognized as the very first AMTE affiliate in 2003. The current IMTE board wants to give a special public THANK YOU to Susan for all of her many contributions to math teacher education here in IL and at the national level! 

To celebrate IMTE’s 20th year as an organization, the current IMTE board is organizing a summer virtual gathering that will provide opportunities for participants to learn from and share with one another on a variety of topics related to their work as math educators. This special event will be held on July 14th from 8:30 – 11:30, with hopes that it will become an annual gathering to connect with one another over the summer months.

HAMTE 10th Anniversary: We will celebrate 10 years of HAMTE this summer. There is so much HAMTE members have done and look forward to in the future. Below are two pictures from two different moments of HAMTE history.

IMERS 2020: HAMTE continued supporting IMERS (Indiana Mathematics Education Research Symposium) this year. While we only had a half-online-day IMERS this year, we had excellent presentations. We appreciate all the submissions received, and everyone did a great job presenting their work. We had 11 sessions, 11 faculty facilitators, 11 graduate student facilitators, and 20 presentations by 23 different graduate students, and were applauded by over 50 attendees. Presentations ranged from curriculum, K-12 education, undergraduate courses, preservice teacher education, STEM, gender issues, and social justice.

KAMTE (Kentucky)

The Kentucky Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (KAMTE) has been busy supporting math teacher educators (MTEs) and pre-service teachers (PSTs) throughout the state. In spring 2021, KAMTE offered a webinar series that included three virtual meetings to discuss the topic, Humanizing Mathematics; MTEs from across the state joined together for fellowship and networking while enjoying a watch party and discussion of AMTE webinars. In conjunction with the AMTE annual meeting, KAMTE hosted a virtual affiliate luncheon, which was well attended. A highlight of the spring was the Pre-Service Teachers Virtual Conference; nearly 100 PSTs participated in the event, which included presenters from across the state of Kentucky and invited speaker, Dr. Jennifer Suh from George Mason University. Elections for President-Elect and Treasurer are currently underway. Looking ahead to fall 2021, KAMTE plans to offer a virtual book study on the text, “Cases for Mathematics Teacher Educators: Facilitating Conversations about Inequities in the Mathematics Classroom”, a virtual summit for MTEs, and a fall PST Conference

PAMTE (Pennsylvania) 

PAMTE held its 14th annual symposium on May 12th and 13th via zoom. There were 33 attendees from across Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Keynote Address was given by Michael Steele, Immediate Past President of AMTE. While we missed sharing meals with each other, it was great to see faces on zoom and learn alongside each other. We look forward to meeting again in person next spring.

VA-AMTE (Virginia)

The Virginia chapter of AMTE hosted its first virtual research symposium during the fall of 2020. The research symposium was a great success. We will have our next research symposium on October 2, 2021 at James Madison University. We currently are transitioning our website, but if you would like to receive information about proposing to speak and/or attending the fall 2021 research symposium, please email Toni Sorrell.