Dr. Jaclyn Murawska is a Mathematics Educator Researcher and a STEM Instructional Coach. She loves sharing her enthusiasm for mathematics and research-based insights through conference presentations, workshops, and publications. Since 2010, Dr. Murawska has given over 100 presentations on a variety of mathematics education topics at national, international, state, and local professional organizations including keynotes and invited talks. She has also published over 30 articles or book chapters, most of which appear in peer-reviewed journals.

In her position as an instructional coach, she provides instructional and curricular implementation support as well as professional development to teachers in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology at a K-8 school district north of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Prior to serving in this STEM role, Jackie spent 11 years in higher education, most recently as an Associate Professor of Mathematics specializing in teaching K-12 mathematics content and pedagogical methods, and 6 years teaching high school and middle level mathematics in the US. In her research, she is passionate about exploring ways to develop teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching and equitable student discourse structures.

Dr. Murawska has held multiple leadership positions at the state and national levels in the US. She is the past President of the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM), and recently completed her three-year term as the Central Representative for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Membership and Affiliate Relations Committee. During the last four summers, Dr. Murawska developed and co-led national leadership conferences for mathematics education leaders across the country.

Dr. Murawska earned her Ed.D. in Curriculum Leadership, Cognate in Mathematics from Northern Illinois University, and a B.S. and M.S.T. in the teaching of mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois at Chicago, respectively. In her spare time, Jackie enjoys taking dance classes in ballet, tap, musical theater, ballroom, and swing dance. She loves cheering on her daughter who plays snare drum in a university drumline, and cheering on her son who plays college baseball.

Keiko Hino is a Professor at the Utsunomiya University in Japan. Her work includes the preparation for pre-service mathematics teachers and professional development for in-service mathematics teachers. She received her M.Ed. from Tsukuba University and her Ph.D. in Education from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her major scholarly interests are students’ development of proportional reasoning and functional thinking through classroom teaching, international comparative study on teaching and learning mathematics, and mathematics teachers’ professional development. She has published authored or co-authored books, book chapters, and journal articles and also presented her work at both national and international conferences. She is also involved in activities for improving mathematics education as an editor of Japanese Primary and Lower Secondary School Mathematics Textbooks and an External-expert for Lesson Study in Mathematics.

Dr Qiaoping Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). Currently, he is the Programme Leader of the Master of Arts in Mathematics and Pedagogy at EdUHK. He also serves as a member of the Curriculum Development Council Committee on Mathematics Education and a member of the Coordinating Committee on Basic Competency and Assessment Literacy in the Hong Kong Education Bureau. He has been invited as the Plenary Panelist at the PME-42 (Umeå, Sweden), and as a TSG member in ICME-13 (Hamburg, Germany), ICME -14 (Shanghai, China), and ICME -15 (Sydney, Australia).

Dr Zhang received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests and publications are mainly related to mathematics teacher education, affect in mathematics education, curriculum reform and textbook analysis and students’ mathematical problem-solving. Research subjects include teachers and students in primary and secondary schools as well as pre-service and in-service teachers in universities. Research findings have been published in different refereed journals or books internationally and regionally.

Dr. Wei-Chang Shann is a jointly appointed professor in the Department of Mathematics,

Center of Teacher Education, and Interdisciplinary Program of Liberal Arts

at National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics

from Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, in 1984 and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics

from the Pennsylvania State University, USA, in 1991; his dissertation was in the field of numerical analysis.

Prof. Shann worked in NCU ever since he returned from USA in 1991. He started to devote himself into curriculum design and textbook writing around 1996 when he re-designed the "Basic Computer Concepts" which is a one-year reuqired course for undergraduates who are preparing for a major in computational mathematics and numerical analysis. The efforts ended up with a textbook, and its following courses have grown up to a subdivision of the Dept of Math in NCU: "The Program of Computational Math and Data Sciences".

He stepped out of the Dept of Math by organizing the United Classes of Calculus at NCU in 2002, offering a general education (GE) course "Mathematics in Cultural Contexts"

in 2010, chairing the Language Center of NCU for 2011-17, and serving twice as the associate dean of College of Liberal Arts. His calculus teaching videos are organized into 5 playlists in Youtube. There are more than 200 episodes and the leading one has more than 680,000 views.

His GE course earned him "The Distinguished Award for General Education Teachers"in 2016;  it is a national award honored biennially by the Ministry of Education.

Prof. Shann was involved in the national math curriculum since 2003. He worked along the evolution of the curriculums all the way to the current curriculum guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education where he served as a vice convener for the committee and he was responsible for the fifth stage: grades 10 to 12. He continued to work on a wide range of aspects of math curriculum after the committee has finished its duty.

Wei-Chang is a lifelong member of Taiwan Association for Math Education since 2017.