• Congratulations to Dr. Amy B. Ellis, winner of the 2008 Early Career Publication Award.
• Welcome new officers: James Middleton (Co-Chair), Amanda Jansen (Treasurer), and Corey Drake (Awards Board Member)!
• The Winter 2008 Newsletter is available on-line in pdf format. If you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can do so here.
• The Membership Directory has been updated (December 2007). To update your contact information, please e-mail Mandy Jansen with your corrected information. If you have questions about accessing the directory, please email Gwen Lloyd.
• Congratulations to Dr. Les Steffe, winner of the 2006 SIG/RME Senior Scholar Award. Powerpoint slides (with annotations) from Dr. Steffe's 2007 AERA address can be downloaded here.
  
• Check out the new job postings. Please remember to refresh your browser to make sure you have the latest job listings. Please email all post requests to: Gwen Lloyd. If there are any problems with the website, please e-mail me as well.

Announcements/Calls for papers

1. Applications are invited for the Janet H. and C. Harry Knowles Foundation Research Fellowship in High School Science and Mathematics Teacher Education. The KSTF Young Scholars Fellowship Program was established in 2005 to support early career scholars engaged in critical research relevant to the recruitment, preparation, induction, mentoring and retention of high school science and/or mathematics teachers. The amount of $110,000, to be distributed over two years, will be awarded to up to four scholars in 2009. Pre-proposals are due June 30, 2008. The application deadline for full proposals is December 1, 2008.
2. Manuscripts are sought for TODOS: Mathematics for All Monograph #2. For additional information, please contact Rick Kitchen, TODOS Monograph Co-Editor.
3. The 11th congress of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICME-11) is taking place next July in Monterrey (Mexico). One of the official activities of ICME-11 is to present a survey on the influence of results from mathematics education research on students' learning of mathematics. This survey is being prepared by an international team with members from Chile, Italy, Malaysia, Spain, and USA. Mathematics teachers are a keystone in the relationship between research and students. For this reason, the team would like to know the opinion of as many mathematics teachers as possible on this issue, and to get some data about their professional activity as teachers of mathematics. This information will help the team to appraise more accurately and rigorously the real scope of the influence of mathematics education research on the activity of teachers of mathematics and, therefore, on students' learning of mathematics. Please collaborate with the ICME-11 Survey Team 3 by devoting a few minutes to answer the questionnaire.
4. Manuscripts are sought for AMTE's 2009 monograph, Scholarly Practices and Inquiry in the Preparation of Mathematics Teachers, the sixth volume in a series designed to be a forum for mathematics teacher educators to exchange ideas about their work with preservice and inservice teachers and about their collaborative efforts with others who play significant roles in mathematics teacher education. Questions may be directed to one of the co-editors of the monograph: Denise S. Mewborn and Hollylynne S. Lee.
5. The fifteenth annual conference of Adults Learning Mathematics – A Research Forum (ALM) will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from June 30 to July 3, 2008. ALM is an international research forum that brings together those engaged and interested in research and developments in the field of adult mathematics/numeracy teaching and learning. The ALM conference has not met in the United States since 2000 and offers American educators a unique opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world who share their interest in adult mathematics education. Information about the 2008 conference can be found on the ALM website. The conference organizer is Kathy Safford.
6. The Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum is hosting its Second International Mathematics Curriculum Conference, "Future Curricular Trends in School Algebra and Geometry," May 2-4, 2008, at the University of Chicago and The Field Museum.
7. The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project & The University of Applied Sciences (FH), Dresden (Germany) announce our 10th (Anniversary!) International Conference: “Models in Developing Mathematics Education” to be held Sep 11–17, 2009 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany in full cooperation with the Saxony Ministry of Education. International Organisers: Dr. Alan Rogerson, Coordinator of the Mathematics in Society Project (Poland) & Prof. Fayez Mina, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University (Egypt). Chair of the Local Organising Committee: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Paditz of the Dresden University of Applied Sciences. You are warmly invited to attend our conference to be held in the historic & beautiful city of Dresden. For ALL further conference details and updates please email arogerson@inetia.pl.
8. The School of Education at the University of Delaware is seeking qualified applicants for its Ph.D. program in Mathematics Education (Announcement).
9. Travel Grants are available from the Association of Women in Mathematics. Deadlines: Feb 1, May 1, Oct 1.
   
10. Call for manuscripts for ON-Math journal.
    
11. New process for those outside Canada to subscribe to the journal, For the Learning of Mathematics
    
12. CLTnet : Visit the official website of the NSF-funded Centers for Learning and Teaching (CLT) . There is valuable information about recent RFPs from NSF, job opportunities, Ph.D programs in math education, and much more!
13. New Journal: Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) published by the International Statistical Institute.