Rate My Professor Mike Steele

His academic career includes appointments as Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at Michigan State University from 2006 to 2013, Associate Professor and then Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 2013 to 2023, where he also chaired the Department of Teaching & Learning from 2015 to 2018, and Program Officer/Intermittent Expert at the National Science Foundation from 2018 to 2025. Steele is Past President of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Editor in Chief of Mathematics Teacher Educator, and a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Board of Directors. His honors include the National Science Foundation Special Act Award in 2022, the inaugural Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators/National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Best Reviewer Award in 2017, and co-recipient of the University Council for Educational Administration Journal of Research in Leadership Education Best Article Award in 2016. Key publications encompass books such as Asset-Based Teaching for Mathematics Success (2024), The Five Practices in Practice in the High School Math Classroom (2022), NCTM’s Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 6-8, and A Quiet Revolution: One District’s Story of Radical Curricular Change in Mathematics, alongside dozens of refereed journal articles including “Relationships between mathematical knowledge for teaching and teaching practice: The case of proof” (Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2012) and “Developing mathematical knowledge for teaching in a methods course: The case of defining function” (Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2013).