Freeland, Sean - Carlow University

Sean P. Freeland, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education (STEM) and Educational Leadership at Carlow University. He began his teaching career at University High School in Morgantown, WV where he was a mathematics teacher and a basketball coach. Following his time there, he became the Curriculum Coordinator and District Assistant Director of the Health Sciences & Technology Academy (HSTA) at West Virginia University, an after-school program for minoritized students throughout the state. During his doctoral studies, Sean was also a graduate assistant for the NSF-funded Mountaineer Master Mathematics Teachers (M3T) program working with mathematics teachers across West Virginia in improving their practice. Sean’s interests include identity research, specifically mathematics identities, with pre-service teachers, practicing teachers, and K-12 students. He also is focused on practice-based teaching strategies with pre-service teachers as well as challenging the status quo and promoting justice and equity in mathematics and STEM education. Sean lives in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh with his wife and two sons.

Education

PhD, Educational Theory and Practice, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

MA, Secondary Education, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

BA, Mathematics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Selected Publications

Freeland, S. P. (2022). “Learning mathematics while Black in rural Appalachia: Black students’ counterstories and freedom dreams about mathematics education.” Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problems Reports. Research Repository at West Virginia University. https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.11267

Freeland, S. P. (2022). Black students’ tensions when freedom dreaming about an ideal mathematics education in rural Appalachia. In Lischka, A. E., Dyer, E. B., Jones, R. S., Lovett, J. N., Strayer, J., & Drown, S. (Eds.). Proceedings of the forty-fourth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Nashville, TN.

Freeland, S. P. (2021). Black students’ mathematics identities in rural Appalachia. In Olanoff, D., Johnson, K., & Spitzer, S. M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Philadelphia, PA.

Campbell, M. P., Baldinger, E. E., Kar, J., Freeland, S. P. (2021). Teacher candidates’ construction of characters in scripts. In Olanoff, D., Johnson, K., & Spitzer, S. M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Philadelphia, PA.

Karr, J., Baldinger, E. E., Campbell, M. P., Freeland, S. P., Graif, F. (2021). Experiences and considerations for coached rehearsals in secondary mathematics methods courses. Individual session at the 2021 Annual Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Conference.

Baldinger, E. E.., Campbell, M. P. , Freeland, S.P., Karr, J. (2021). Scripting tasks as approximations of practice in secondary methods courses. Individual session at the 2021 Annual Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Conference.

McKendall, S. B., McKendall, A., Kuhn, S., Morton, C., McMillion, M., & Freeland, S. (2021). The Health Sciences and Technology Academy: Re-imagining programmatic delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of STEM Outreach, 4(4), 1-15.

McKendall, S. B., McKendall, A., Chester, A., Morton, C., Freeland, S., Kuhn, S., & McMillion, M. (2021). High school students’ learning during the COVID pandemic: Perspectives from Health Sciences and Technology Academy participants. Journal of STEM Outreach, 4(1), 1-13.

Selected Presentations

Freeland, S. P. (2023). Attending to identity in mathematics education. Session at the Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Mathematics Conference at Pennsylvania State University Behrend. Erie, PA

Freeland, S. P. (2023). Attending to mathematics identity in methods and STEM certification courses. Session at the Pennsylvania Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (PAMTE) Annual Conference. Shippensburg, PA.

Campbell, M. P., Bolyard, J. J., & Freeland, S. P. (2023). Cultivating teacher leadership by growing and supporting teacher agency and collaboration in networked improvement communities. Session at the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA.

Freeland, S. P. (2021). Black students’ mathematics identities in rural Appalachia. Paper at the Forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Philadelphia, PA.

Campbell, M. P., Baldinger, E. E., Kar, J., Freeland, S. P. (2021). Teacher candidates’ construction of characters in scripts. Paper at the Forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Philadelphia, PA.

Freeland, S. P. (2021, May). Blackness and whiteness in Appalachian mathematics classrooms. Poster session presented at the Forty-second annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Virtual Conference and Mazatlan, MX.

Karr, J., Baldinger, E. E., Campbell, M. P., Freeland, S. P. (2020). Documenting adaptive expertise through the evolving use of an enactment tool. Poster session presented at the Forty-second annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Virtual Conference and Mazatlan, MX.

Valentine, K. D., Bolyard, J., & Freeland, S. (2019, April). Investigating a design framework to support pre-service teachers’ perspectives regarding access, equity, and productive struggle. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, ON.