Elham Kazemi

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 powerful places for student and teacher learning.