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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: Title of article
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: Ordered author(s) contact and short bio (maximum of 50 words)
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: Project Funding Acknowledgement (if applicable)
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: Abstract of 100-200 words that summarizes the article.
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: DARE Pre-reading questions
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: Body of article
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: References (in the current edition of APA style)
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: DARE post-reading questions
  • ARTICLE COMPONENTS: Appendices (if applicable)
  • DARE PRE-READING QUESTIONS: About 2-4 pre-reading questions that might help teachers reading the article (on their own or as an assignment from a professor or professional development leader) look for and frame the main ideas they are about to encounter in the material. See examples in previous issues.
  • DARE POST-READING QUESTIONS: About 4-8 post-reading discussion questions that could be used in a group of teachers (whether in a graduate course or a teachers' lounge) to deepen teachers' understanding of the reading and provide a vehicle for reflection upon how the ideas or issues in the article could be used in, or apply to, their own classroom context. In addition to or instead of discussion questions, additional readings could be suggested or even a “Try This” activity or technique that a teacher could actually try out in their classroom the next day.

    See examples in previous issues, for example: D’Errico & Zahner (2021). Using interviews to identify resources of multilingual high school students. Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics 12(2), 7-15.
  • TITLE PAGE FORMATTING : The title page is formatted using the TEEM Journal Title Page Template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pvy8gKiOYeVJ7mYqMR3jAERK_dYB-oae/copy
  • TITLE PAGE FORMATTING : The title page has been uploaded as a separate document.
  • PAPER FORMATTING: The article is formatted using the TEEM Journal Article Template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12W7CTIeWidFh33Wnj6QRFNia55xdetcO/copy
  • PAPER FORMATTING: The paper's length is around 10-15 pages, not including the bibliography (references) section, abstract, DARE questions, and any appendix.
  • PAPER FORMATTING: Reader-friendly short headings are used to indicate the various sections of the paper
  • PAPER FORMATTING: Use underlined text for URL addresses only. Avoid using underlined text for emphasis. Rather employ italics or boldface.
  • PAPER FORMATTING: All illustrations, figures, and tables are embedded within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • PAPER FORMATTING: Figures and tables are referenced in the text (e.g. "See Table 1", "Table 1 shows...")
  • STYLISTIC & BIBLIOGRAPHIC REQUIREMENTS: In-text citations are used for all referenced text.
  • STYLISTIC & BIBLIOGRAPHIC REQUIREMENTS: All manuscript references are listed at the end of the manuscript.
  • STYLISTIC & BIBLIOGRAPHIC REQUIREMENTS: The most recent APA Publication Style (American Psychological Association) is used for bibliographic style. A guide to the current edition of APA can be found at https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/.
  • URL: Where available, DOI URLs for the references are underlined and include live hyperlinks (and are shortened when possible).
  • URL: URLs use DOIs and are not a restricted link, (e.g. University Library Website).
  • URL: For Tables, Figures, and References, all URLs fit on one line.
  • FILE FORMAT: The file should be in Microsoft Word format (.doc, .docx file).
  • FILE FORMAT: Authors must embed (with appropriate captions) any pictures, tables, illustrations or photos in the manuscript. They must obtain written permission when including student work or a photograph that clearly shows the student’s face or full name. The permission form for TEEM can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OjvM3Cr2_VJzcGQQ5T3iXSR8xZZ4OhnMTPKnsAPE0Kw/edit?usp=sharing
  • ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS - Accessibility for Text: When including in-text hyperlinks, all links include meaningful text that indicates where users will be directed (“resource list for teachers,” as opposed to “click here”).
  • ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS - Accessibility for Text: Includes Headings. Headings allow screen readers and other assistive technology to identify and navigate to sections of a document.
  • ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS - Accessibility for Text: Lists are formatted so they are accessible to assistive technology users.
  • ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS - Accessibility Requirements for Reference List: Hyperlink the title of the source in the reference list and provide the URL. This allows you to create the title as meaningful link text for users with disabilities who need this, as well as to provide the URL for good reason.
  • ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS - Accessibility Requirements for Reference List: Use the “list” feature in Word to make each item in the bibliography a list item. Choose the option not to display bullet points for the list. (Not using the list feature for lists disadvantages some assistive technology users.)
  • ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS - Accessibility Requirement for Included Media: Embed images in the document, and include web-resolution original images as .png or .jpgs in a compressed .zip file. (See: How to Zip and unzip files for guidance: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows/Experience/Storage-FileManagement/zip-and-unzip-files)
  • ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS - Accessibility Requirement for Included Media: While all embedded images require alt text (see #1), for complex images such as flowcharts, graphs, or other visualizations, provide both alt text (for screen readers) AND a longer caption within your document (e.g. under the image) that fully describes the image.
  • ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS - Accessibility Requirement for Included Media: For numerical data visualizations, provide the complete data set as an appendix to your document. (See: Add alternative text to a shape, picture, chart, SmartArt graphic, or other object - Microsoft Support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/accessibility/office-accessibility/add-alternative-text-to-a-shape-picture-chart-smartart-graphic-or-other-object)
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - Remove Author Identifiers:
    Ensure that all author names, affiliations, bios, and any other identifying information are removed from the manuscript file. This includes any acknowledgments that may reveal author identities.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - Anonymize Citations:
    Replace self-citations with generic terms like "[Author(s), Year]". This ensures that reviewers cannot identify the authors through their previous works. The only exception (which you should discuss with the TEEM editor) is if you believe that (1) the reviewer needs to see the reference and can access it only with an anonymous citation AND (2) the way the citation is used in the paper does not make it obvious that the paper is by the author of the submitted manuscript,
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - Abstract and Keywords:
    Make sure the abstract and keywords sections of the manuscript do not contain any information that could reveal the authors' identities.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - File Naming Convention:
    Rename the files in a way that doesn't include an author’s name, or otherwise disclose identifying information about the authors. Use a generic title or a code that is not linked to the authors.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - References to Your Work:
    When referring to your own work, use third-person language (e.g., "Smith et al., 2010" instead of "We showed in our previous work...") and have the surrounding text written in a way where the reader cannot tell it is you.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - Anonymity in Citations:
    Ensure that any references to your own work are made anonymous. For example, if you have to cite your own papers, do it in a way that doesn't reveal your identity.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - Acknowledgments:
    If necessary, move acknowledgments to a separate document, making sure it doesn't contain any information that would identify the authors.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - Figures and Tables:
    Remove any identifying information from figures, tables, or captions. For example, replace author names with generic labels.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - File Metadata:
    Check that the file properties (metadata) do not contain any author-related information.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - Submission Process:
    Follow the journal's specific guidelines for manuscript submission. Make sure to upload the anonymous manuscript file without any identifying information, and submit the title page and any other required documents separately.
  • ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW - Double-Check:
    Before final submission, double-check all documents to ensure that no identifying information is present.
  • ORIGINAL WORK:
    The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). The authors should adhere to our guidelines regarding plagiarism: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Le9daXSw0NFF-37m04fR6mSBaJmFZ1pe_D4esBWAiFo/edit?usp=sharing
  • COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Author(s) shall retain copyright to the article but grant the Journal right of first publication (subject to the institutional repository deposit requirement in II.b. below), and the irrevocable right to perpetually disseminate the article as part of the Journal subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    CC BY-NC
    This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. CC BY-NC includes the following elements:
    - BY: credit must be given to the creator.
    - NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
  • COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Upon publication of the article, the Author agrees for TEEM to deposit a copy of the published digital version of the manuscript in J. Murrey Atkins Library’s institutional repository, Niner Commons.
  • COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Beginning one year after the date the article is first published by TEEM in online or print form, Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published digital version of the work and subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License (e.g., publish it in a book), subject to a proper acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal: This article was originally published in Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics (Vol., Issue, Year).

Author Guidelines

Authors who submit to TEEM agree to the following terms:

  1. To adhere to all items required in the TEEM Submission Preparation Checklist;
  2. To submit a completed copy of the TEEM Submission Preparation Checklist with their manuscript.
  3. To format the manuscript submission using this TEEM Journal Article Template, when requested. 

For Papers Written by Classroom Teachers: 

If submitting to a call for papers specifically written by PK-12 classroom teachers, the manuscript will still go through a competitive review process. However, manuscripts submitted by teachers will not be rejected for failure to adhere to the stylistic/formatting requirements of the journal. Rather, classroom teachers will be offered any needed help from TEEM editors with style/formatting aspects, e.g. DARE questions.

Classroom teachers may consider any of the following for the content of their manuscript: 

  1. A description, discussion and reflection on what happened while trying to implement a particular strategy or recommendation from the "excellence and equity" research literature (from a previous issue of TEEM, or another publication or source).
  2. An article that focuses on some aspect of the TODOS mission and related goals:
    • to advocate for an equitable and high-quality mathematics education for all students.
    • to inform the public, including parents, and influence educational policies in ways that enable students to become mathematically proficient.
    • to inform teacher education programs.
  3. An article that shares teaching and learning materials and/or plans that align with the TODOS mission and goals.
  4. An article that shares student artifact(s) that align with the TODOS mission and goals.

If you have an interesting idea that is not included in the list above, please reach out to an editor to determine whether it fits within the scope of TEEM! 

 

TEEM AI Policy

The intended use of this policy is to guide and support authors and reviewers of Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics in relation to using AI-based tools. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a new and powerful space for researchers, teachers, specialists and instructional coaches, parents, and other advocates for the education and well-being of children. On one hand, AI has been used, to name a few examples, for creating mathematical tasks, evaluating lesson plans, analyzing teacher-student interactions, synthesizing research literature, and mapping the location of teachers’ movement in the classroom. On the other hand, AI has challenging implications to our intellectual property laws, ethics and equity, student surveillance, and environmental concerns. Regulations on AI are evolving and so is TEEM’s consideration of the use of AI tools for preparing, reviewing, and publishing articles.

For manuscript preparation: We share in the community's embrace of responsible and ethical use of AI tools to help in developing manuscripts for publication. As such, authors need to be transparent and cite the use of AI tools similar to how the use of other specialty tools are cited (e.g., NVivo, Dedoose, R, SPSS, ArcGIS, Knight Lab’s StoryMap). It is essential for authors to ensure AI data practices align with IRB, ensuring data is secure. We highly recommend the APA’s recommendations for how to cite the use of AI tools (https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt). 

For reviewing submitted manuscripts: Because of the questions behind intellectual property and the data that is scraped by machine learning mechanisms, we ask that reviewers not use AI tools for reviewing manuscripts submitted to TEEM (i.e. never put a manuscript into AI). Our goal is to protect and respect the intellectual property and labor of authors. Similar to a manuscript, however, if a reviewer uses AI tools for editing and refining their own review, that is seen as appropriate as long as the use of AI is responsibly and ethically done. Any use of AI tools must be disclosed to the editors and to the manuscript authors within the review.  

The landscape is changing quickly. Please be patient with the editors if we have questions about authors’ use of AI. This is not meant to be accusatory, but for us as editors to learn how these systems work and that the use of AI tools is transparent to TEEM readers. We look forward to working with authors and reviewers in traversing new technological landscapes.

Other Resources that may be helpful:

AMTE Connections Special Issues on AI in Mathematics Teacher Education:

Center for Humane Technology

The Turing Institute - Understanding AI Ethics and Safety

Effective Date: December 12, 2024

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with TEEM agree to the following terms:

a. Author(s) shall retain copyright to the article but grant the Journal right of first publication (subject to the institutional repository deposit requirement in II.b. below), and the irrevocable right to perpetually disseminate the article as part of the Journal subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b. Upon publication of the article, Author agrees to deposit a copy of the published digital version of the manuscript in J. Murrey Atkins Library’s institutional repository, Niner Commons.

c. Beginning one year after the date of formal publication of the article, Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published digital version of the work and subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License (e.g., publish it in a book), subject to a proper acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal: This article was originally published in Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics (Vol., Issue, Year).

d. Authors of papers submitted to TEEM agree not to publish or submit for publication their paper while it is under consideration for TEEM. Authors agree to transfer copyright of the paper to TODOS, but still keep the right to share (without charge) print or electronic copies of their TEEM article with their students and colleagues. Authors may post a pdf of their article on their personal or school’s website after that article has been posted (in early view or final form) on the TEEM website.

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