Heather Beasley

Heather Beasley is passionate about the potential of coached rehearsals and collaborative professional inquiry as mechanisms for cultivating more equitable patterns of mathematics instruction in PK–12 classrooms. She currently divides her time between supporting in-service teachers in Michigan as part of the Grand Rapids Mathematics Collaborative and teacher educators across the country working to implement practice-based methods courses and programming. Prior to joining TeachingWorks in 2016, she taught middle and high school math for seven years. Heather received her PhD in educational foundations and policy at the University of Michigan, where she investigated the learning opportunities made available for novices in guided rehearsals embedded in a broader system of repeated cycles of enacting and reflecting on teaching practice.