Sheila Orr (she/her)
Mathematics Teacher Educator, Assistant Professor, Lifelong Spartan, Knowles Senior Fellow
- I am so excited to have this piece out in the world. It started as a course paper about a framework that spoke to us as educators and has expanded to understand what it means to be a Rida in mathematics classrooms. jume-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/jume/article...
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- So grateful for these folks and the community we are building
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- Reposted by Sheila Orr (she/her)As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.
- This week we learned with Dr. Alyssa Hadley Dunn about Teaching on Days After — holding care + community at the center. We also explored how different assessments create space for students to show what they know in ways that honor their voices 💛 #TeachingTuesday #TeachingOnDaysAfter
- Life has really been life-ing this last week…..but I committed to it so I am still going to post my #teachingtuesday post (just a day late 🤷🏻♀️)
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- Check out this free resource that came out of work with teachers to help reframe deficit language during PD sessions
- Teaching Tuesday: This week my class compared practice standards across disciplines and then built Practice Pathways for our own units. The best part? Seeing how across math, science, ELA, and social studies, practices drive coherence. #TeachingTuesday #PracticePathways #TeacherEducation
- Reposted by Sheila Orr (she/her)Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin
- Excited to be part of sharing some of this amazing work in Atlanta #NCTM25
- This week’s class was asynchronous, which gave my students time to dig into disciplinary practices. The big shift: seeing standards not as checklists, but as doorways into the ways to be a doer of the discipline outside of schools. #TeachingTuesday #DoersOfTheDiscipline #TeacherEducation
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- She is an amazing educator who has inspire so much of my practice! I am so honored to have her as part of my community
- My teacher ed class is full of PSTs across math, science, ELA, social studies and PE. This week we explored content storylines. What I loved was hearing how each discipline engages in this work. Together we’re not just asking what the standards are, but also how and why they matter #teachingtuesday
- August Sheila - I am giving detailed feedback so students realize I value learning over right answers September Sheila - why is it taking so long to give all this feedback Jokes aside it is warming my heart to read all the week 1 reflections (even if it is taking way longer than expected)
- I am going to attempt to use social media to share a window into my classroom like I used to with #teach180 Since I only teach once a week now, I am going to try #TeachingTuesday ✨ Teaching Tuesday ✨ This week in class we dug into standards-based unit planning using Equity by Design as our guide.
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- My work with @carleemadis.bsky.social and @msdimaria.bsky.social is a finalist for #SXSWEDU please help us get there by voting ❤️
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- Q3: I am teaching two new to me courses and the students and I only meet face to face every other week. I have no idea how I will build meaningful community when our interactions will be so infrequent #TODOSslowchat
- Q3: Share one challenge you anticipate this school year and how you’re planning to overcome it. Let's problem solve in community here! #edusky #mathsky #TODOSslowchat
- Q2: I always do a collaborative math task. When I was in K-12, I did origami boxes and Mayan numbers (from @rickbrlw on Twitter…I think). Now I do usually do a pattern task to get future teachers thinking about how to work together and challenge what math classrooms can look like #TODOSslowchat
- Q2: What is one activity you do with your students on the first day of math class and why is it important? #edusky #mathsky #TODOSslowchat
- Although I am still thinking about how to start this year since my courses in the fall aren’t focused on math. Probably still something collaborative I just have to figure out what ❤️
- Q1: Sheila, Math teacher educator, Michigan #TODOSslowchat
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- I am so grateful for the opportunity to be in community with thoughtful educators
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- So proud of this work
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- I was so happy to be invited to share some of my dissertation work in this blog post. It is the final post in a 4 part series where several mentor teachers share their experiences. Check them all out! knowlesteachers.org/resource/to-...
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- So excited to see her being honored! Ayanna is a force of nature and will be your biggest cheerleader. The way she pushes open doors and pulls folks through with her is phenomenal. If you want someone to accelerate your 5 year plan tell her about it and things will be happening in 1 year ❤️
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- Went back to a conference that shaped my early teaching years—where I first presented, first dreamed big with other educators, and first started thinking differently about PBL some takeaways from #NTAC2025: • intentionality always matters • teachers are brilliant • growth is real—pause and honor it
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- Such a great time sharing my work over the last two days at #NTAC2025
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- Fun fact: I first attended NTAC in 2014 and went every year until I left the classroom. I am so excited to heading back to #NTAC2025 to share my learning over the last five years ❤️
- Reposted by Sheila Orr (she/her)BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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- 🚨New Publication🚨 After quite the journey, this book chapter is finally out in the world. It is from the first research project I worked on and the first time I got excited about what emerged in data. Although it is short, this piece represents me beginning to find joy in research ❤️
- My friend is so amazing! I am so proud to be able to know and learn from her ❤️
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- Um…..this is ONE research-backed way….also if you dig into the research it is done in a super controlled environment. There are DECADES of math education research that shows supporting students to engage in deep thinking and non routine problems increases math understanding
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- Not sure why we decided to do 5 session 😬 But I am so excited to share on all the learning and work we have been doing
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- Reposted by Sheila Orr (she/her)SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”
- I learned so much last week, both in terms of community engaged teaching and community engaged research!
- Reposted by Sheila Orr (she/her)must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
- This really helped reframe my thinking around PBL when I realized it was a way to reorganize my teaching
- Love see the ways folks have taken up the PBL Planning Pyramid
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- So glad to be part of this work and share some of our thinking around equitable PBL. Our framework brings together work happening across STEM fields (hopefully more coming soon)
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- Reposted by Sheila Orr (she/her)Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem
- Reposted by Sheila Orr (she/her)Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
