Exploring the SUM: Developing a Model of the Urban Mathematics Teacher Pipeline

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Abstract

Amid broader teacher shortages, staffing mathematics classrooms with high quality teachers is challenging across a variety of school settings. Yet, this challenge is particularly acute in urban schools. To address this challenge, we must first understand the factors that shape mathematics teacher preparation and employment in urban districts. In this theoretical/conceptual paper, I focus on the topic of the urban mathematics teacher pipeline. Utilizing a sociology of urban mathematics (Tate et al., 2021) “lens”, I consider the factors shaping the various junctures along the urban mathematics teacher pipeline. This conceptual modeling using a sociological lens is a way to “unforget” the history of urban schools and a first step to imagining future intervention strategies informed by this history.

Author

• Celia Rousseau Anderson, University of Memphis