I co-direct the Elementary Transition to Teaching Program (teaching the mathematics education course for these career changers, as well as working with their school-based field experiences and related seminar, and directing students in their classroom-based capstone inquiry projects for the masters degree).

I work with mathematics education graduate students: advising; directing independent studies, internships, masters theses, and doctoral dissertations; and teaching doctoral-level seminars. 

I oversee the Armstrong Teacher Educator Program (www.indiana.edu/~atea), which annually recognizes a group of outstanding K-12 teachers from throughout the state of Indiana and engages them in working directly with our IUB teacher education students in classes, seminars, and workshops both on campus and in their school communities. 

I am principal investigator on the NSF-funded Noyce scholarship program at IU (http://www.noyce.education.indiana.edu/). The Noyce progran provides scholarships for undergraduate mathematics majors to add teacher preparation to their program of studies and provides stipends for career changers (with bachelors degrees in mathematics) who enroll in the graduate-level Transition-to-Teaching program. 

Ph.D. Mathematics Education, 1988, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

M.A. Mathematics, 1971, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

B.A. Mathematics, 1970, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

• E543 ADV STUDY TCH OF MATH ELEM SCH
• J799 DOCT THESIS-CURRICULUM/INSTR
• N590 IND STUDY OR RES IN MATH EDUC
• E579 INQUIRY IN ELEM EDUCATION
• M500 INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL SEM
• M501 LABORATORY/FIELD EXPERIENCE

• Lambdin, D.V., & Lester, F.K. (2009).  Tre principer och fyra tankevanor (Three principles and four habits of mind).  Namnaren:  Tidskrift for Matematikundervising (Namnaren:  [Swedish] Journal for Mathematics Teaching), 36(1), 62-63. 
• Smith, N. L., Lambdin, D. V., Lindquist, M. M., & Reys, R. R. (2009).  Teaching Elementary Mathematics:  A Resource for Field Experiences. (4th ed).  Hoboken, NJ:  John Wiley.
• Reys, R. R., Lindquist, M. M., Lambdin, D. V., Smith, N. L. (2009).  Helping Children Learn Mathematics (9th ed).  Hoboken, NJ:  John Wiley. 
• Hiebert, J., Lambdin, D., & Williams, S. (2008). "Reflecting on the conference and looking towards the future. In R. E. Reys and J. Dossey (Eds.), U.S. Doctorates in Mathematics Education: Developing Stewards of the Discipline (pp. 241-254). Providence, RI:  American Mathematical Society.  
• Lambdin, D.V., Essex, N. K., Lahann, P. L. (2009).  Evaluation Report:  NCTM Research Agenda Conference.  Unpublished Report, NCTM, Reston, VA.

• Midwest Regional Noyce Conference, IUPUI, April 2 & 3. 
• NCTM, April 19-25, 2009, Washington, DC.
• Armstrong Teacher Educator Panel - "Assessment and Accountability" held in School of Education.
  
  Four-five times per year, I organize and moderate these events in my role as Armstrong Chair. The panels feature the Armstrong Teachers (outstanding teachers from around the state), and are attended by students and faculty from the School of Education. We attracted more than 40 students to this particular panel.
• Attended an organizational meeting for a team invited -- by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics -- to develop a series of books to interpret research from the 2007 Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning.  The books will be designed for teachers, administrators, policy makers, and other non-researcher audiences. 
• Armstrong Teacher Educator Panel - "Effective Parent-Teacher Communication"  held in School of Education.  Four-five times per year, I organize and moderate these events in my role as Armstrong Chair.  The panels feature the Armstrong Teachers (outstanding teachers from around the state), and are attended by students and faculty from the School of Education.  We attracted more than 40 students to this particular panel.  
• Attended Research Agenda Conference organized by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and funded by the National Science Foundation, to bring together reseachers and practitioners for a week of conversations about developing a national research agenda.  I am the designated evaluator for this project, so I attended in that capacity (along with Kathy Essex - a recent IU PhD graduate and Paula Lahan - a current IU doctoral student, because they are collaborating on the evaluation with me). 
• Armstrong Teacher Educator Panel - held in School of Education.
  
  Four-five times per year, I organize and moderate these events in my role as Armstrong Chair. The panels feature the Armstrong Teachers (outstanding teachers from around the state), and are attended by students and faculty from the School of Education. This panel was well attended.
• Armstrong Teacher Educator Panel - "Classroom Management and Discipline"  held in School of Education.  Four-five times per year, I organize and moderate these events in my role as Armstrong Chair.  The panels feature the Armstrong Teachers (outstanding teachers from around the state), and are attended by students and faculty from the School of Education.  As has become more and more the case, we attracted more than 40 students to this panel.  
• Attended annual meeting of American Education Research Association, New York City, NY. 
• Armstrong Teacher Educator Panel - "Differentiating Instruction" held in School of Education. Four-five times per year, I organize and moderate these events in my role as Armstrong Chair. The panels feature the Armstrong Teachers (outstanding teachers from around the state), and are attended by students and faculty from the School of Education. This panel was well attended. 
• Co-presented one of the opening talks (with Jim Hiebert, University of Delaware) at the annual meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.  We reported on a recent national conference on the future of doctoral programs in mathematics education, and described our work as evaluators for that conference, and our report on that work which would become (later in the year) the concluding chapter for a book published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).  (See publications)

• Deepening the Pool - "Deepening the Pool" is an NSF-funded Noyce fellowship program to provide scholarship support to students with strong mathematics backgrounds who are recruited to become certified as mathematics teachers, and who commit to teaching two years in a secondary school in a high need for each year of scholarship support. Through this program, IU Math Education was awarded (in 2007) nearly $500,000 to provide funding either to selected undergraduates who pursue a mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences while also completing teacher certification) or to selected graduate students (career changers) who must have a mathematics degree or equivalent, and who enroll in the Transition to Teaching Program. I am PI on the project, with Kent Orr (Mathematics) as co-PI. In 2008, we recruited 4 graduate students and 1 undergraduate for Noyce funding. In addition we did the following: * applied for, and received NSF additional funds ($99,980) to support Noyce scholars who choose to work toward a masters degree concurrently with pursuing their teacher certification. * celebrated the graduation of 3 Noyce scholars -- 2 of them are currently teaching in high-need districts in Indiana; the third is looking for a teaching job in Maryland. * continued to work with 2 undergraduate Noyce scholars (now seniors, originally recruited in 2007). * organized support activities throughout the year (speakers, dinners, etc.) for all our Noyce scholars. * continued to recruit additional scholars for 2009.    
• Deepening the Pool - This is the original Noyce grant -- still in progress.  See note on new supplement to this grant (received August 2008) for details about both grants.

• NSF Panel Reviewer for Noyce proposals.  April 5-7.  Washington, DC.
• NCATE accreditation leadership team - Member, School of Education's accreditation leadership team, anticipating the spring 2010 visit by NCATE.
• School of Education Grievance Committee - This committee hears student grievances against School of Education faculty or staff.  It meets rather rarely, just whenever there is a grievance to be heard.
• Lecture to visiting Korean teachers of mathematics - Gave a lecture on assessment in mathematics education to a group of Korean mathematics educators who visited IU for a month-long series of workshops and lectures
• Advisory Board - Center for Math Ed at IU - Advisory Board - Center for Math Ed at IU
• Freshman scholarship committee (ad-hoc).  - This committee was formed to select recipients for new, direct-admit scholarships to the School of Education (for fall 2008).  We did most of our work independently, but met two or three times.   
• Coordinator, Mathematics Education Program Area - The Mathematics Education Program Area in the School of Education identifies a faculty member each year to serve as program coordinator.  This person attends meetings of program coordinators in the Curriculum and Instruction Department every other Friday, manages additions/corrections/editing of the Schedule of Classes, and oversees communications with prospective students while also coordinating and managing admissions paperwork for graduate students.   Program coordinators also are responsible for extra meetings and responsibilities relating to selecting incoming graduate students to be nominated for school-wide and university-wide fellowships.  I took over this position from Enrique Galindo, when he went on sabbatical in January 2008.  I served from January - August.  In August 2008, I began to share the position with Peter Kloosterman.  I took responsibility for coordinating everything related to graduate students, while Pete assumed responsibility for undergraduate coordination. 
• Promotion Advisory Committee - The Promotion Advisory Committee is a university-wide responsibility.  The committee reviews cases involving promotion to Full Professor, from all units on campus.  Its work is intense and time consuming during the months of January - March each year.  I served on this committee for the first time in spring 2008 (and was reappointed to the committee for 2009). 
• Nominations Committee - Policy Council - In 2008, I chaired the Nominations Committee for the School of Education's Policy Council.  The Nominations Committee organizes two rounds of voting to decide who will serve on the next year's Policy Council.  First the committee sends a ballot to all faculty to solicit nominations for service on the Policy Council.  Then using those nominations, the committee prepares a ballot and conducts the actual election.  The work of the Nominations Committee requires three or four face-to-face meetings, plus additional work between meetings (mostly by the chair). This year, I led the committee in debating and investigating how future nominations and elections for Policy Council could be conducted electronically -- and submitted a proposal with such a recommendation.  That proposal went before Policy Council in fall 2008, and was unanimously approved.
• Member, Selection Committee -- Otting Chair - Member of the committee that designed the advertisement for the Otting Chair, reviewed applicants, conducted interviews, went to dinner with finalists, and eventually (in spring 2008) offered the position to Erna Alant from South Africa.   Erna arrived on campus in January 2009.
• COAS/SOE STEM committee - Ad hoc committee to discuss how COAS and SOE can collaborate on attracting more students from STEM fields into education.  Focus during 2008 was on designing a 5 year BS (COAS) + MS (EDUC) program so that students could earn a bachelors degree from COAS in their content area, but be admitted during their last semester to a masters degree in Education, which could be completed during their fifth year of study.  (Courses taken during the final semester of the students' undergraduate studies would be double-counted, for both the bachelors and the masters degrees.) 
• Delta Kappa Gamma (National Women's Educator Society) - Chair of Professional Development committee, co-chair of Initation committee and chair of Scholarship committee. (In 2006-7, an IU ET-to-T student was selected as DKG scholarship recipient.)
• Member, Review committee for the 2010 yearbook (on curriculum), to be published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. - (Initial organizing meeting in Irvine, California, January 2007.) Reviewed approx. 50 submitted papers in December 2007 and attended meeting in January 2008 to decide who to invite to revise and resubmit their papers for the yearbook.  Followup meeting in September 2008 to review revised submissions and make decisions on which chapters to publish.  Additional responsibilities for reviewing edited manuscripts will continue until publication of the yearbook in April 2010.

• Board of Directors, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - Elected in fall 2008 to serve on the 12-member Board of Directors of the 100,000-member National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.  My 3-year term actually begins in April 2009.
• Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Chair in Teacher Education 2005-10 - The Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Fund in Teacher Education was established through a gift from the Cook Group Companies Inc. The fund allowed the School of Education to establish a chair in teacher education to be held by a faculty member distinguished in that field. I was selected in 2005 to hold the Armstrong chair for the next five years (2005-10). In addition, the Armstrong fund brings outstanding K-12 classroom teachers to the School of Education to lead workshops and seminars for students enrolled in teacher education. As Armstrong Chair, I direct that program.