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This mixed-methods study examines the impact of a 2-year/30-credit certificate program in elementary mathematics pedagogy on teacher capacity for teaching mathematics in grades K-8. An online survey with open-ended questions and follow-up teacher interviews generated data for analysis and program review. The goals of the review were to determine the effectiveness of professional growth for mathematics teachers; to gain an understanding of barriers to mathematics education; to gauge teacher preparedness to become leaders in mathematics education; and to identify potential gaps in the program. Teacher feedback included suggestions for course alignment, increased focus on assessment, and enhanced inclusion strategies to ensure success for all in mathematics. Analysis of the results revealed noteworthy findings across three themes: professional development and content knowledge, leadership and culturally responsive pedagogy. Implications included opportunities to modify existing course curriculum in the areas of assessment, inclusion and equity; to enhance course facilitation across the program; and to augment leadership opportunities provincially for mathematics teachers.

Building from the concept of verbing mathematics as a culturally consistent and enabling mathematics education practice for Mi'kmaw learners, the authors present an elementary multiplication lesson affectionately named "Sets of, Rows of, Jumps of". Through examination of this specific set of tasks emerging notions of structuring, play, and collective learning are discussed. Readers are invited to share responses.

This paper braids together experiences from three Canadian projects committed to creating learning opportunities where Indigenous and Western ways of knowing, being, and doing might circulate together. Show Me Your Math/Connecting Math to Our Lives and Communities (Mi'kmaw territory/Nova Scotia), the First Nations and Métis Mathematics Voices Project (Anishnaabe territory/Ontario), and the READress Project (Kanien'kehá:ka territory/Québec) are each described, and individually and collaboratively explored to identify the ways in which STEM and mathematics emerged (or did not) from community, and contributed back to those communities. While unique in their own ways, each of the projects engaged in collaborative, reflective, cyclical processes of teaching and learning that were deeply rooted in community and ethical relationality. Unresolved tensions are reviewed regarding what is lost when mathematics and STEM more generally are privileged in these contexts, and questions about curriculum reform are presented.

Concerned by the need to decolonize education for Aboriginal students, the authors explore philosophies of Indigenous ways of knowing and those of the 21st century learning movement. In their efforts to propose a way forward with Aboriginal education, the authors inquire into harmonies between Aboriginal knowledges and tenets of 21st century education. Three stories from the authors' research serve as examples of decolonizing approaches that value the congruence between 21st century education and Indigenous knowledges. These stories highlight the need for two-eyed seeing, co-constructing curriculum for language and culture revitalization, and drawing from community contexts to create curriculum.

This article discusses findings from a two-day teacher conference focusing on discursive authority and sociocultural positioning in mathematics classrooms. The conference was designed to study how research on classroom discourse could be transformed into effective professional development activities. We describe how the focus on discourse, positioning, and authority was operationalized and made pragmatic for the teachers by focusing very closely on specific language use in classrooms. For each of the six workshops of the conference, we outline the goal of the workshop, the activities that were structured to reach those goals, and the theoretical constructs that were introduced to the teacher participants. We then draw on (a) transcripts of video and audio recordings, (b) material produced by the teachers, and (c) survey data, to discuss how these theoretical constructs were taken up and leveraged by participants as a means of reflecting on their own and other's practice. (Contains 4 figures and 5 notes.)

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