Facebook Pixel

Choose multi-year PD proven to sustain school improvement — Learn more

Jennifer A. Wolfe

Jennifer A. Wolfe (she/her), PhD, has been in mathematics teacher education for over 20 years. As an associate professor of mathematics education, she supports mathematics teachers in cocreating identity-affirming spaces that center student voice, collaboration, community, and equity.

$0.00

Request availability for Jennifer A. Wolfe

Jennifer A. Wolfe

Jennifer A. Wolfe (she/her), PhD, is a biracial Asian American cisgender woman, daughter of a Thai immigrant, and first-generation college graduate who has been in mathematics teacher education for over 20 years. As an associate professor of mathematics education at the University of Arizona, she supports preservice and in-service mathematics teachers in learning to cocreate identity-affirming spaces that center student voice, collaboration, community, equity, radical love, and joy.

She is a recipient of the University of Arizona’s AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Teaching Excellence Award, the College of Science’s Innovation in Teaching Award, and the Department of Mathematics’ David Lovelock Award for Innovation in Education for effectively implementing research-based equitable teaching practices to engage students in collaborative group work.

She has served in leadership roles for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA). She served as coeditor for the Informing Practice Department of the NCTM journal Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School and also for the Ear to the Ground Department of the NCTM journal Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK–12. She is a former fellow of the Center for Inquiry and Equity in Mathematics, the Teaching Well, and the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice. She is currently a cohost of the AMTE Teaching Math Teaching podcast and a mentor for the AMTE Service, Teaching, & Research (STaR) Fellows Program, an early-career induction program for faculty in mathematics education.

Dr. Wolfe holds a bachelor’s and a master’s in mathematics and a PhD in mathematics education from the University of Kentucky.


DNA Mathematics

DNA Mathematics experts understand that educators need to experience mathematics as both teachers and learners. Work with these experts to deepen your understanding of mathematics and facilitate students to do the same.

Learn more

Presentations by Jennifer A. Wolfe

  • Emphasizing the “Group” in Group Work: Empowering Students Through Equitable Teaching Practices
  • Learning to Facilitate Group Work Through Complex Instruction
  • Dismantling Hierarchies of Competence: Building Student Agency Through Equitable and Inclusive Teaching Practices
  • Becoming, Belonging, & Building Community in Math Classrooms
  • Five Equity-Based Practices: Focusing on Intentional Teacher Actions & Valuing Student Identity
  • Building Caring Communities in Mathematics Teacher Preparation: Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn
  • Teaching Tensions When Scaffolding Students’ Work in a Problem-Based Lesson