About Jen Knudsen

My career has been built around one question: what teaching practices and curricular resources support learners in reasoning, arguing, and making sense of mathematical ideas — and in seeing themselves as mathematical doers and users? I work with schools, districts, and organizations that want something more than off-the-shelf professional learning, built around three areas: AI-assisted lesson planning, mathematical argumentation, and math through making.

Expertise

Teacher Professional Learning

• Human-centered AI assistance for lesson planning

• Mathematical argumentation and classroom discourse

• High-cognitive-demand instruction for diverse learners

• Presumption of competence: helping teachers see and build on student strengths, not just address deficits

Curriculum Design & Implementation

• Project-based mathematics learning, including math-and-making

• Curriculum adaptation for language accessibility and neurodiverse learners

• Implementation support for high-quality instructional materials

STEM Equity

• Reviewing curriculum for adoption through an equity lens

• Promoting instructional approaches that ensure genuine opportunity to learn for all students

• Supporting districts in serving students historically underserved in mathematics education

 Background

• Designing and leading professional learning for math teachers, in urban and rural districts

• Curriculum design and research across upper elementary and middle school mathematics and computational thinking

• Directed NSF-funded projects at SRI International and TERC in mathematical argumentation, teacher professional learning, and technology-integrated curriculum

• Co-author, Mathematical Argumentation in Middle School (Corwin Press, 2018)

• Certified AI Literacy Trainer

• Started as a high school math and computer science teacher, New York City Public Schools