1. Jo Boaler is a co-founder of youcubed, a Stanford research center with mathematics education resources for teachers, students and parents, and is one of several co-founders of a math game company for an app called Struggly.
24 Facts About Jo Boaler
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Jo Boaler's mother was a secretary, and her father was a technical draftsman.
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Jo Boaler's mother attended Open University to study to become a teacher and in this way Boaler experienced "cutting-edge, play-based educational ideas of the day".
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Jo Boaler said she found her early mathematics classes largely rote and procedural until one of her secondary school mathematics teachers emphasized group discussions in class.
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Jo Boaler received a Bachelors in Psychology from Liverpool University in 1985.
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In 1998, Jo Boaler became an assistant professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education.
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Jo Boaler became an associate professor in 2000 and left as a full professor in 2006.
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In 2012 Jo Boaler published a statement on her Stanford homepage, accusing Milgram, Bishop of harassment, persecution, and attempts to "suppress research evidence".
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Jo Boaler was awarded a posting as the Marie Curie professor at Sussex University by the Marie Curie Foundation.
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In 2010, Jo Boaler returned to Stanford and resumed her position as Professor of Mathematics Education.
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In 2013, Jo Boaler taught the first Massive Online Open Course on mathematics education, called "How to Learn Math", with about 40,000 teachers and parents participating, of whom about 25,000 completed the course.
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Jo Boaler met with district representatives and later praised the effort in an op-ed for The Hechinger Report.
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In 2024, Jo Boaler launched a Basketball Data Analytics unit through the youcubed.
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Jo Boaler partnered with Stanford's women's basketball team to use statistics to help students and players grades four through 10 improve and make decisions with data through basketball.
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In 2013, Jo Boaler co-founded youcubed, a research centre at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, with Cathy Williams.
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Jo Boaler is one of several cofounders of a children's math game web app called Struggly, a brand of Boggl Inc, which is a customer of denkwerk, a consulting and digital design agency with a history of awards for design.
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Jo Boaler is one of five original authors of the 2021 and 2022 drafts for the California Department of Education's 2023 Mathematics Framework, which like the older 2013 framework, provides guidance for K-12 math teaching and learning in California public schools.
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Jo Boaler is the most cited author in the framework, with it citing Jo Boaler 48 times, in addition to citing youcubed 28 times.
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In 2022, Jo Boaler was involved in a public online dispute with Jelani Nelson, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley and an opponent of the 2021 mathematics framework.
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Jo Boaler sent Nelson an email accusing him of "spreading misinformation and harassing me online" and stating that "the sharing of private details about me on social media yesterday is being taken up by police and lawyers".
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Jo Boaler explained she had not intended her mention of police to be perceived as a threat, and that she had been receiving threats of violence following Nelson's original tweet.
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Jo Boaler later tweeted that Nelson was "the black male professor" who "very cleverly changed my request to meet into a claim of racism".
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In March 2024, an anonymous complaint was sent to Stanford University's dean of research alleging Jo Boaler had violated the research policies of the University.
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Jo Boaler responded to this with an article published by Threo and the American Association of University Professors Journal: Academe, about the attempts to suppress her work and research that focuses on equitable approaches to mathematics instruction.