Elham kazemi biography

Elham Kazemi

Books for educators on teaching and learning mathematics and leading school change

co-authored with Jessica Calabrese, Teresa Lind, Becca Lewis, Alison Fox Resnick, & Lynsey K. Gibbons, Learning Together, describes how teachers, principals, and instructional coaches create strong professional learning cultures as they learn alongside their students.

co-authored with Allison Hintz, Intentional Talk describes how teachers lead productive mathematical discussions. Global Math Department Book Talk https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/27May2014

co-edited with Megan Franke, Angela Chan Turrou, Choral Counting and Counting Collections describes how teachers and families from preschool through fifth grade learn about number through these two generative instructional activities.

Selected Writing on Professional Learning

Kazemi, E., Resnick, A. F., & Gibbons, L. (2022). Principal leadership for school-wide transformation of elementary mathematics teaching: Why the principal's conception of teacher learning matters. American Educational Research Jo

Elham Kazemi is a professor of mathematics education at the University of Washington. She studies children’s mathematical thinking and learning experiences in classrooms, the teacher’s role in facilitating discussions, and how teacher educators design and lead environments so that teachers learn from and with their students. One important theme throughout all this work is nurturing strong professional communities among teachers. Her research and partnership work has been informed by research on organizational learning, school reform, children’s mathematical thinking and classroom practice. Recent books include Intentional Talk, coauthored with Allison Hintz, which focuses on leading productive discussions in mathematics; Choral Counting and Counting Collections, edited with Megan Franke and Angela Turrou, which describes two generative routines for student learning; and Learning Together, co-authored with Jessica Calabrese, Teresa Lind, Becca Lewis, Alison Resnick and Lynsey Gibbons, which explains the work that teachers, coaches, and principals can do together to make schools pow

Elham Kazemi

Elham Kazemi was born in 1974 in an art-loving family. She spent her childhood watching the little ladybirds in the yard, playing with cats and drawing with her crayons until she entered school. There the textbooks did not have the color and smell of her picture books; therefore, she made her school days more enjoyable by sticking her drawings on the pictures of the textbooks. 

Having finished the elementary school, she enrolled in academy of art and won the second place in the student festival in the field of design for two consecutive years.

Feeling confident of her choice for the future, she entered the Azad University of Art and Architecture in 1994 to get a degree in painting. The cost of education caused her, who was interested in illustrating children’s books, to expand her activity in this field by taking orders from various publications. In addition to that, she started teaching painting at the art academy and continued her activities in the two fields of illustration and teaching. In 2005, she decided to pursue a master’s degree in art and

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