Live Classrooms: The main goal of the live classroom is to describe and analyze the components of a particular inquiry classroom. To this end, a math facilitator teaches an inquiry class in which the participants are the students. The activity is created in a way that the participants can be their true mathematician selves and do not need to role play being students. After the math activity, a pedagogy facilitator helps the participants to reflect on the student experiences and analyze what the math facilitator did or did not do to run the class. With the live classroom, the participants co-create one particular representation of learning with inquiry that can be helpful for further discussions.
Laura Kyser Callis is an associate professor in the Department of Natural Sciences & Mathematics at Curry College, where she teaches introductory statistics and mathematics for teachers. She has previously taught in Boston Public School; Nanjing, China; Quincy College; and at Boston University, where she earned her doctorate. She studies the impact of curriculum and instruction on undergraduate learners with varied backgrounds. She has a 5-year-old son who loves Legoes and a husband who loves gardening.
Natalie Naehrig is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington. She has been living in Washington for 9 years after moving from Aachen, Germany, where she worked at the RWTH Aachen University. In her role as faculty she has been focussing on EBT (evidence-based teaching) methods, diversity in the STEM fields, and equity issues in the STEM fields.
Moshe Cohen is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Over the last five years, he has incorporated active learning workshops into his classrooms and has focused on DEI in STEM. Prior to that, he spent six years in research postdocs in Israel at the Technion and Bar-Ilan University, where graph theory played an important role in his research in topology.