• Congratulations to Amanda Jansen, winner of the 2009 Early Career Publication Award! Click here for the paper.
• Congratulations to our new officers: Arthur Powell (Co-Chair), Jeff Shih (Events Board Member), Despina Stylianou (Communications Board Member), and Indigo Esmonde (Electronics Board Member)!
• Alan Schoenfeld of the University of California Berkeley has been selected as the recipient of the second SIG/RME Senior Scholar Award. This award is presented in recognition of the research of a single scholar within the field whose programmatic work has been essential in mathematics education. Thanks to Carol Fry Bohlin, we have some photos of the event.
• NEW   The Summer 2009 Newsletter is now available.
• The Membership Directory has been updated (June 2009). To update your contact information, please e-mail Mandy Jansen with your corrected information. If you have questions about accessing the directory, please email Indigo Esmonde.
  
• 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: Indigo Esmonde. If there are any problems with the website, please e-mail Indigo as well.

Announcements/Calls for papers

1. Second announcement: Realistic Mathematics Education Conference, University of Colorado at Boulder, October 12-14, 2009.This conference will be held at the University Memorial Center situated on campus in the scenic foothills of the Rocky Mountains. This three-day conference is sponsored by the University of Colorado School of Education and the Freudenthal Institute USA. Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), widely respected throughout the world as an exemplary approach to mathematics education, is a Dutch approach to design of curriculum, assessment and instruction that has evolved over the last 30 years out of the work of Hans Freudenthal and research faculty at the Freudenthal Institute.
2. Applications are invited for the Janet H. and C. Harry Knowles Foundation Research Fellowship. The KSTF Research 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 three scholars in 2010. Pre-proposals, which are required before submitting full applications, are due June 30, 2009. Full proposals are due January 6, 2010.
3. Call for Papers in Mathematics Bulletin: A journal for educators
   
   Mathematics Bulletin is a prominent refereed journal in China that aims to promote the development and exchange of mathematics education practices and research. It is co-owned by the Chinese Mathematical Society and Beijing Normal University. Since its first issue published in 1936, Mathematics Bulletin has been a popular place for mathematics teachers, educators and researchers alike to discuss and share issues and findings related to mathematics education. The journal has gained the status of “core journal” in the category of school education in China. With the ever-growing interests in exchanging mathematics education research and practices between mathematics educators in China and overseas, the journal decides to take the historical first step ever to publish articles in English as special issues. The first issue is scheduled to be published around the end of 2009. For this first issue, the following three types of articles are especially welcome.
   

   - Research papers (open to the use of various methodologies, can be either empirical or theoretical, but prefer to have certain connections with mathematics education policy and practices in China). Up to 10,000 words including references, tables, figures, and appendix if any.
   - Mathematics education around the world (introductory papers that can focus on specific issues or aspects of mathematics education in various education systems.) Up to 5,000 words including references, tables, figures, and appendix if any.
   - Short communications (including commentary papers, book reviews, instructional reflections, connecting research and practices, etc.) Up to 2,000 words including references, etc.

   Please follow the American Psychological Association (APA) publication manual (5th edition) for your manuscript preparation, and submit your manuscript to either the journal at shxtb@bnu.edu.cn or Yeping Li, the guest editor of the first special issue, at yepingli@tamu.edu. The deadline for manuscript submission: June 30, 2009.

4. Are you interested in how people learn, designing effective learning environments, or ways to assess learning? The University of Illinois at Chicago's interdisciplinary PhD program in the Learning Sciences focuses on learning within a discipline, such as mathematics, chemistry, computer science, or history. An interdisciplinary faculty, hands-on research, and innovative coursework highlight contemporary methodologies and applied research and design. For more information, see http://grad.lsri.uic.edu
5. The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project and 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. You are warmly invited to attend our conference to be held in the historic and beautiful city of Dresden. For ALL further conference details and updates please email alan@rogerson.pol.pl. (Second announcement)
6. Travel Grants are available from the Association of Women in Mathematics. Deadlines: Feb 1, May 1, Oct 1, every year.
   
7. New process for those outside Canada to subscribe to the journal, For the Learning of Mathematics
   
8. 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!