Kelly Spoon a tenured faculty member at San Diego Mesa College. She teaches mathematics and statistics within the Mathematics department. She’s had a number of different roles on campus and within my department, including STEM Professional Learning Coordinator and is involved in statistics education and focused on culturally responsive teaching.

Amy Hogan is an NYC high school teacher. Currently teaching AP Statistics, Math Analysis (sophomore math team), and Algebra 2. She is involved with stats education at the K-12 level with the ASA and NCTM, and served on the committee for USCOTS 2023.

Daniel Kaplan is a nationally recognized college professor in Statistics, Data Science, and Applied Mathematics. Author of multiple university-level textbooks, award winning teacher and curriculum developer. Strong innovator in teaching with professional-level software and author of several R packages for teaching data science, statistics, and calculus.

Episode Description

The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education, aka CAUSE has held the United States Conference on teaching statistics, also known as USCOTS every other year since 2005. This conference enables teachers of statistics to exchange ideas and discover how to improve their teaching. The theme of this year's conference was communicating with and about data, a topic near and dear to us on the Stats and Stories podcast. Two sub-themes are explored as part of this conference, helping students to communicate the process and results of their statistical analysis, and helping teachers to communicate with students in order to develop their understanding of statistical concepts and their ability to implement statistical methods for conversations with leaders and speakers at the United States Conference on teaching statistics were recorded on site. And we are happy to feature these in a collection of episodes of Stats and Stories.