My work
A selection of professional learning partnerships, workshops, talks, and scholarship exploring mathematical thinking, teacher learning, numeracy, and belonging.
Professional Learning Partnerships
Building Thinking Classrooms in K–6 Mathematics
Fraser-Cascade School District #78 · Kent & Hope, BC · 2026–present
An ongoing professional learning partnership incorporating district-wide workshops, collaborative planning, classroom implementation support, co-teaching, and lesson observation.
Building Thinking Classrooms: Professional Learning, Co-Teaching & Lesson Observation
Vancouver Island West School District #84 · Gold River, Tahsis & Zeballos, BC · 2025–present
A sustained professional learning partnership involving workshops, collaborative planning, repeated classroom visits, co-teaching, lesson observation cycles, and teacher reflection.
Developing a Vision for a Numerate Learner & Building Thinking Classrooms
Brandon School Division · Brandon, MB · 2024–2025
A sustained secondary mathematics professional learning series moving from collaborative development of a shared vision for numeracy into workshops, implementation support, co-teaching, and lesson observation cycles.
Building Thinking Classrooms: From Professional Learning to Classroom Practice
Nechako Lakes School District #91 · Vanderhoof & Burns Lake, BC · 2023–2025
A multi-year professional learning relationship combining workshops, online debriefs, classroom observation, co-teaching, and implementation support.
Building Thinking Classrooms Professional Learning Series
Southeast Kootenay & Rocky Mountain School Districts #5 & #6 · Cranbrook & Kimberley, BC · 2018–2020
A multi-session professional learning series progressing from introductory Building Thinking Classrooms practices through follow-up learning and classroom lesson observation.
Selected Workshops
What’s the Story? Restorying Math Tasks for Thinking and Belonging
BCAMT Mathematics Conference · Vancouver, BC · October 2026
Launching Strong, Landing Stronger: Storywork and the Bookends of BTC
with Maegan Giroux · 3rd Annual Building Thinking Classrooms Conference · Seattle, WA · July 2025
The Underrated Nuances of BTC: Small Moves, Big Gains
3rd Annual Building Thinking Classrooms Conference · Seattle, WA · July 2025
Building Thinking Classrooms: Foundational Toolkits and Beyond!
Kw̓am̓kw̓um̓stuxw í nuca̓m̓atstuxw Day · Nanaimo, BC · February 2025
Spaces of Belonging in Mathematics
63rd Annual Northwest Mathematics Conference · Whistler, BC · October 2024
Responsive Unit Planning in Secondary Thinking Classrooms
63rd Annual Northwest Mathematics Conference · Whistler, BC · October 2024
Crafting Engaging Stories for Thinking Classrooms
with Maegan Giroux · OAME Annual Conference · Kingston, ON · May 2024
SmudgedMath: Tasks for Sparking Curiosity and Conversation
with Minnie Liu · BCAMT Annual Conference · Surrey, BC · October 2023
Selected Talks & Presentations
Co-Teaching in Building Thinking Classrooms Professional Learning: Early Insights into Surprise and Systemic Change
Invited Research Presentation · 2nd International Conference on Teacher–Management–Development–Change · Kraków, Poland / Online · May 2025
Transforming Teaching: Collaborative Approaches to Mathematics Education in Higher Learning
Featured Invited Speaker · 5th International Congress on Teaching Innovation and Research in Higher Education · Seville, Spain / Online · November 2023
Learning from the Waves: Building Thinking Classrooms as a Catalyst for Teacher Change
Keynote · 1st International Conference: Teacher–Change–Development · Kraków, Poland / Online · May 2023
Mathematics Teaching and Social Media: An Emergent Space for Resilient Professional Activity
Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group · Online · June 2022
The Social and Emotional in Learning Mathematics
Invited Panelist · Fields MathEd Forum, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences · Online · April 2021
What Thinking Classrooms Look and Feel Like
Invited Webinar · Global Math Department · Online · September 2018
The Invisible Teacher: Engaging Students in a Thinking Classroom
Adults Learning Mathematics International Conference · London, UK · July 2018
Belonging to the MTBoS: Tapping into a Community of Mathematics Educators
Fields MathEd Forum, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences · Toronto, ON · November 2017
Exploring Generative Moments of Interaction Between Mathematics Teachers on Social Media
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 41) · Singapore · July 2017
Selected Publications
Building Thinking Classrooms: Disrupting Norms to Build a Culture of Thinking
with Peter Liljedahl · in Cultivating Cultures of Thinking: Global Perspectives · accepted/forthcoming
From Stereotypes to Self: Elementary Teacher Candidate Identity Shifts with Mathematics through Pre/Post Drawings
with Sheryl MacMath · manuscript completed, preparing for submission to the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education
Developing Positive Teacher Identity Around Mathematics to Address Preservice Teachers’ Anxiety Around Teaching Math
with Sheryl MacMath · accepted/forthcoming conference proceedings
Reflections on Selter’s Four Components: Living Their Effects from Learner to Teacher Educator
in Liljedahl, Larsen & Selter · PME 50th-Anniversary Volume · accepted/forthcoming
Building Thinking Classrooms Online: From Practice to Theory and Back Again
with Peter Liljedahl · Adults Learning Mathematics: An International Journal · 2022
Mathematics Teaching and Social Media: An Emergent Space for Resilient Professional Activity
Proceedings of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group · 2022
Building Thinking Classrooms Online: A Closer Look at the Types of Tasks We Use
with Peter Liljedahl · Virginia Mathematics Teacher · 2021
Public Musings About Mathematics Teaching: Social Responsibility and Ideational Alignment
with Peter Liljedahl · International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education · 2020
Community Building in the MTBoS: Mathematics Educators Establishing Value in Resources Exchanged in an Online Practitioner Community
with Christopher Parrish · Educational Media International · 2019
Stepping In/Stepping Out: A Self-Study of Two Teacher Educators’ Conversations About Campus Teaching and Practicum
with Awneet Sivia · American Educational Research Association · 2018
My Journey Towards a ‘Thinking Classroom’
CMS Notes, Canadian Mathematical Society · 2018
Exploring Generative Moments of Interaction Between Mathematics Teachers on Social Media
with Peter Liljedahl · International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education · 2017
Adult Students’ Experiences of a Flipped Mathematics Classroom
Adults Learning Mathematics: An International Journal · 2015
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