RUME 28
2026
Alexandria, Virginia
Collaborative Approaches for Developing Teaching, Learning, and Stewardship
Page: 1416
The research in undergraduate mathematics education (RUME) community has amassed insights into features of high-quality learning opportunities for students and what instructors need to know and do to create such opportunities. What does it look like if we leverage what is known from that literature to consider the question: How do we use RUME findings to design and study leader development for the mathematics education community? We focus on leaders who function as Stewards, whose broad and deep knowledge enables them to serve as innovators and custodians of teaching-focused professional development. Building on prior work on leadership for instructor professional learning, in this theoretical exploration we consider the design of authentic group-worthy tasks for professional learning (e.g., tasks relevant to the work of teaching and leadership in post-secondary mathematics) and what is necessary for those who offer such learning to know and do.