Alumni
Advisors: Kristen Bieda and Beth Herbel-Eisenmann
Dissertation: Change the Story, Change the Curriculum: Curriculum-as-Story Metaphor
as a Flexible Lens for Interpreting Curricular (In)Coherence From Students' Perspectives
and Beyond
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Graduate STEM Education with the Biology Education Research Group at the University of Georgia
Summer 2023
Advisor: Shiv Smith Karunakaran
Dissertation: Coding for Creativity: Exploring the Effects of Computing Enacted Through
Coding on Students' Mathematical Creativity in Linear Algebra
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Idaho
Summer 2023
Advisors: Corey Drake and Kristen Bieda
Dissertation: "Grab a shovel!": Supporting early-career alternatively prepared elementary
teachers
Summer 2023
Advisor: Kristen Bieda
Dissertation: "It's all Connected": Mathematics Teachers' Opening Curriculum Spaces for Students' Multiple Mathematical Knowledge Bases
Postdoc, Connected Mathematics Project, Michigan State University
Fall 2022
Advisor: Robert Floden
Dissertation: Feedback that matters: Mathematics teacher educators’ feedback of student
teachers’ lesson plans
Faculty of Education, University of Chile
Professor, Colegio Rayen Mahuida Montessori, Universidad San Sebastian
Fall 2022
Advisor: Shiv Karunakaran
Dissertation: Secondary Mathematics Teacher Interns' Learning Through Teaching: A Case Study
Academic Specialist, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University
Summer 2022
Advisor: Vince Melfi
Dissertation: Studying Engagement to Inform Design of Calculus 2 Computational Labs
Academic Teaching Specialist, Mathematics Department, Michigan State University
Summer 2022
Advisor: Shiv Karunakaran
Dissertation: A Multicase Study of Three Graduate Teaching Assistants Participating in the MDISC Teaching Professional Development
Postdoc, Auburn University
Summer 2022
Advisor: Corey Drake
Dissertation: Teachers’ Beliefs, Perceptions, Experiences, and Strategies in Teaching and Engaging Multilingual Learners in Mathematics Classrooms
Research Associate, Dartmouth College
Spring 2022
Advisor: Shiv Karunakaran
Dissertation: Teaching Presence in a Fully Online Asynchronous Undergraduate Mathematics Course and its Impact on Social and Cognitive Presence
Mathematics Faculty Member, Mid-Michigan College
Spring 2022
Advisor: Ralph Putnam
Dissertation Director: Brin Keller
Dissertation: Students' Tool Usage, Justifications, and Reported Confidence When Using Dynamic Geometry Environments
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Spring Arbor University, Michigan
Summer 2021
Advisor: Corey Drake
Dissertation: Anarchist Mathematics Education: Ethic, Motivation, and Praxis
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Summer 2021
Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann
Dissertation: Interactional work of Advanced Placement mathematics teachers: Toward productive and equitable mathematics discussions
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of STEM Education, North Carolina State University, NC Raleigh
Summer 2021
Advisor: Kristen Bieda
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Productive Disciplinary Engagement and Middle Grades Students' Construction of Written Justifications
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Connected Mathematics Project, Michigan State University
Summer 2021
Advisor: Jack Smith
Dissertation: Influence of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Mathematics Experiences on their Attitudes and Beliefs about Mathematics
Assistant Professor of Education, School of Education, Grace College, Winona Lake, IN
Spring 2021
Co-Advisors: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann and Sandra Crespo
Dissertation Director: Chezare Warren
Dissertation: A Critical Race Examination of Four Young Black Men's Participation in Community College Developmental/Remedial Mathematics
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
Fall 2020
Co-Advisors: Jack Smith and Monica Karunakaran
Dissertation: Tracking and Understanding At-Risk College Students' Self-Efficacy in a Treatment Mathematics Course
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Ferris State University
Summer 2020
Co-Advisors: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann and Corey Drake
Dissertation: Mathematics Teachers' and Principals' Responses to the Use of Student Growth Data on Teacher Evaluation Instruments in the State of Michigan
Mathematics Teacher, Morrice Jr/Sr High School
Spring 2020
Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann
Dissertation: Embodying Ubuntu, Invoking Sankofa, & Disrupting With Fela: A Co-Exploration of Social Issues and Critical Mathematics Education With Sub-Saharan African Youth
Assistant Professor, York University
Spring 2020
Advisor: Tonya Bartell
Dissertation: Perturbations of the Sensible: An Aesthetic Atlas of Mathematics Education Research
Assistant Professor, East Stroudsburg University
Fall 2019
Co-Advisors: Tonya Bartell and Vince Melfi
Dissertation: Numeracy Proxies and Practices: Studies in Approximations of the “Real”
Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Skills Center, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Fall 2019
kappenzeller@austin.utexas.edu
Advisor: Corey Drake
Dissertation: Teachers’ Use of Scaffolding During Cognitively Demanding Tasks
Director for Faculty Development, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, The University of Texas at Austin
Summer 2019
Co-Advisors: Brin Keller and Shiv Karunakaran
Dissertation: Dynamic Geometry Task Design for Axiomatic Geometry: Student Engagement with Axiomatic Reasoning
Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley - Brownsville, TX
Summer 2019
Advisor: Brin Keller
Dissertation: Unpacking Teachers' Reflections on Digital Technology Decisions and Use in an Inquiry-Based, Problem-Centered Middle School Mathematics Curriculum
Instructor, Michigan State University
Fall 2018
Advisor: Brin Keller
Dissertation: Learning to Define in Mathematics – The Effects of a Sequence of Tasks on Preservice Teachers' Abilities to Construct High Quality Definitions
Emeritus Mathematics Instructor, Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Summer 2018
Co-Advisors: Ralph Putnam and Sandra Crespo
Dissertation: Case Studies of Undergraduate Students' Interactions with an Online Computer Adaptive Instruction Intermediate Algebra Course
Assistant Professor and Director of First Year Mathematics Instruction, Western Washington University
Summer 2018
Advisor: Corey Drake
Dissertation: Student Work in Curriculum-based Assessment Tasks: An Exploratory Validity Study of a Mechanism for Assessing SMP3b
Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
Summer 2018
Advisor: Jack Smith
Dissertation: Cognitive and Affective Components of Undergraduate Students Learning How to Prove
Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Spring 2018
Advisor: Jack Smith
Dissertation: Investigating High School Mathematics Teachers' Formative Assessment Practices
Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Summer 2017
Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann
Dissertation: Real Fantasies In Mathematics Education: Numeracy, Quantitative Reasoners, Transdisciplinary Wicked Problems
Assistant Teaching Professor, Arizona State University
Summer 2017
Advisor: Kristen Bieda
Dissertation: Teacher Decision-Making in Collaborative Mathematics Discussions
Associate Professor at Winona State University
Summer 2017
Advisor: Amy Parks
Dissertation: Blurring Boundaries within Mathematics Education: Prospective K-8 Teachers Interrogating Intersectional Identities, Narratives and Positionings across Out-of-School Contexts
Assistant Professor of STEM Education, California State University, Fresno
Summer 2017
Advisor: Tonya Bartell
Dissertation: Equitable Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Practice: Exploring Students’ Negotiations of Identity and Power
Associate Professor, STEM Education/Math, University of Tennessee
Summer 2017
Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann
Dissertation: Mathematics Majors at an All-Women's College: Exploring Identity and Context
Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Washington, Bothell
Eryn Stehr Maher
Summer 2017
Co-Advisors: John P. (Jack) Smith, III and Ralph T. Putnam
Dissertation: Digital Resources and Mathematics: Teachers' Conceptions and Noticing
Associate Professor at Georgia Southern University
Fall 2016
Co-Advisors: Vince Melfi, Bob Floden
Dissertation: The Influence of Content and Other Factors on Measures of Teacher Quality: A Comparative Study
Currently Director, Research & Development, at the Educational Records Bureau in New York, after Post-doctoral Fellow at Northwestern University
Summer 2016
Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann and Corey Drake
Dissertation: Mathematics Teachers’ Data Use in Practice: Considering Accountability, Action Research, and Agency
Started as Post-Doc Research Associate at the University of Connecticut; now Assistant Professor of Elementary Education, STEM, and Innovation at University of Hartford
Summer 2016
Advisor: Jack Smith
Dissertation: The Common Core of Understanding Amongst the Michigan Education Community Regarding the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University
Summer 2016
Advisor: Vince Melfi
Dissertation: Quantitative Literacy in General Education Science Courses at a Community College: Student and Instructor Reports
Academic Specialist in Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University
Summer 2016
Advisor: Jack Smith
Dissertation: Mathematics Teachers’ Collaboration Mediated by a Problem-Based Curriculum
Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University, College of Education
Summer 2016
Advisor: Ralph Putnam
Dissertation: Preservice Teachers' Understandings of Volume and Its Measurement in Everyday and School Contexts
Associate Researcher in the Center for Accessible Teaching, Learning & Assessment Systems (ATLAS) at the University of Kansas
Summer 2015
Advisor: Sharon Senk
Dissertation: Preservice Elementary Teachers' Conceptions of Mathematical Definitions
Assistant Professor, Augusta University, Georgia
Spring 2015
jwernet@lansingchristianschool.org
Advisor: Kristen Bieda
Dissertation: What's the Story with Story Problems? Exploring the Relationship between Contextual Mathematics Tasks, Student Engagement, and Motivation to Learn Mathematics in Miple School
Director of Learning and Secondary Mathematics Teacher at Lansing Christian School, and Teaching for Transformation School Designer with the Center for the Advancement of Christian Education (CACE)
Summer 2014
Advisor: Sandra Crespo; Dissertation Co-Directed with Ralph Putnam
Dissertation: Preservice Teachers' Uses of the Internet to Support Their Learning of Mathematics: The Case of The Pythagorean Theorem
Senior Lecturer and Program Director for Mathematics Education at Boston University, after serving 2 years as Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Summer 2013
Advisor: Kristen Bieda
Dissertation: Supporting Low-Tracked Algebra Students’ Written Arguments
Assistant Professor at Seattle Pacific University, Department of Mathematics
Spring 2013
Advisor: Sharon Senk; Dissertation Co-Directed with Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Dissertation: How are the Mathematical Identities of Low Achieving South African Eleventh Graders Related to Their Ability to Solve Mathematical Tasks?
National Mathematics Manager at National Education Collaboration Trust, South Africa
Summer 2012
Advisor: Glenda Lappan; Dissertation Co-Directed with Nathalie Sinclair
Dissertation: The Mathematics Textbook as a Story: A Novel Approach to the Interrogation of Mathematics Curriculum
Associate Professor at Boston University, School of Education
Summer 2012
Advisor: Sharon Senk
Dissertation: College Students’ Achievement and Understanding of Experimental and Theoretical Probability: The Role of Tasks
Lecturer at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, Department of Education
Summer 2012
Advisor: Michael Steele
Dissertation: The Proof is in the Practice? Graduate Teaching Assistants and Future Teachers
Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Summer 2012
Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann
Dissertation: Participation and Cognitive Demand: Linking the Enacted Curriculum and Student Learning in Middle School Algebra
Associate Professor at the University of Missouri, College of Education
Summer 2012
Advisor: Glenda Lappan
Dissertation: The Treatment of Composition in Secondary and Early Collegiate Mathematics Curricula
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University, School of Engineering Education
Currently is an Assistant Professor at Missouri Southern State University
Amanda (Milewski) Brown
Spring 2012
Advisor: Raven McCrory
Dissertation: Exploring Teachers' Practices of Responding
Assistant Research Scientist at University of Michigan School of Education
Fall 2011
Advisor: Glenda Lappan
Dissertation: The Van Hiele Theory Through Discursive Lens: Prospective Teacher's Geometric Discourses
Associate Professor at Boise State University, Department of Mathematics
Fall 2011
Advisor: Jack Smith
Dissertation: Curriculum for Professional Development: An Examination of Teachers' Opportunities to Learn from Middle School Mathematics Curriculum Materials
Associate Professor at University of Nebraska – Lincoln, College of Education and Human Science
Summer 2011
Advisor: Glenda Lappan
Dissertation Advisor: Jack Smith
Dissertation: More Than Just Skill: Mathematics Identities, Socialization, and Remediation among African American Undergraduates
Associate Professor at University of Illinois-Chicago, College of Education
Spring 2011
Advisor: Sharon Senk
Dissertation: Calculus Instructors' and Students' Discourse on the Derivative
Associate Professor at University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Summer 2010
Advisor: Raven McCrory
Dissertation: Development of Discourse on Limits: Connecting History and Classroom Practice Through A Communicational Approach to Learning
Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, STEM Education Department
Summer 2009
Advisor: Glenda Lappan
Dissertation: Learning to Anticipate Students' Mathematical Responses in Two
Contexts: The Case of One Preservice Teacher in a University and School Setting
Associate Professor at Northern Kentucky University, College of Education