Joel Bezaire is a 7th grade Pre-Algebra teacher at the University School of Nashville (TN)
Awards/Recognition:
Quaker Hill Grant, 2011
Bovender Chair for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching, 2014 (Video!)
2015 National Semi-Finalist for Rosenthal Prize
2016 National Finalist for Rosenthal Prize
Leadership:
The Educator’s Cooperative Leadership Committee
#EdCampNash Director
#MTBoS Ambassador Program on Twitter
Publications:
Back To School Special, Bacon on the Bookshelf, August 2014
How Infinitely Big Is God, Christianity Today, December 2014
Why Fractals Are So Beautiful, Christianity Today, November 2015
How Plants Count, Christianity Today, May 2016
Beauty Has A Number, Christianity Today, May 2016
The Eagle, The Shell, and the Sunflower, Christianity Today, June 2016
Interview on Sports Analytics in Esquemao, June 2016 (In Portuguese)
If Jesus Came To Flatland, Christianity Today, June 2016 (co-written with Ted Olsen)
The Beauty of Ugly Algorithms, Circe Institute, September 2016
How I Teach, The Rational Radical, September 2016
Is Christianity Really Dying? Faithwire, October 2016
Entwined Mathematics, Fathom Magazine, April 2017
The Unexpected Biases of Primes, Fathom Magazine, May 2017
Implementing a Badging System (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3), (Part 4) NCTM, Spring 2018
How Reading Novels in Math Class can Strengthen Student Engagement (KQED/MindShift), Spring 2018
Why this Educator Reads a Novel to his Pre-Algebra Class (Class Dismissed Podcast), Spring 2018
Presentations & Workshops:
ISTE 2013, San Antonio TX
TMTA 2014, Knoxville, TN
NCTM 2015, Nashville, TN
MTSU New Math Teacher Symposium – 2010, 2011, 2016
Deerfield Windsor Inservice, Albany GA, 2016
TMC 2016, Minneapolis, MN (YouTube!)
University School of Nashville Inservice, Nashville, TN, 2016
TMC 2017, Atlanta, GA (YouTube!)
Project Engage 2017, Murfreesboro, TN
American Christian Academy Inservice, Tuscaloosa AL, 2017
TMC 2018, Cleveland, OH
NCTM 2018, Kansas City, MO
Building a Badging System (Global Math Department), January 2019
OAME 2019, Ottawa, ON (upcoming)
The EdCo Summer Collective 2019, Nashville, TN (upcoming)
TMC 2019, Berkeley, CA (upcoming)
NCTM 2019, Nashville, TN (upcoming)
Hi Joel,
It was a pleasure to meet you! Thank you for sharing with us! What did you call your multi-variable My Favorite?
Nice to meet you Amy!!
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