Our Work
Building Theory
Teachers Turning to Teachers: Teacherpreneurial Behavior Within Social Media
Manuscript under review.
Kaitlin T. Torphy, Sihua Hu, Yuqing Liu & Zixi Chen
Educators Meet the Fifth Estate: The Role of Social Media in Teacher Training
Kaitlin T. Torphy & Corey Drake. Forthcoming in the Teachers College Record Year Book Issue 2019.
A Dialogue on Teachers’ Use of Social Media: The Millenial and the Curmudgeon.
Ken Frank* & Kaitlin T. Torphy*. Forthcoming in the Teachers College Record Year Book Issue 2019.
*Equal Authorship
Listen to the Audio File here.
Social Media and Education: Curation Within and Outside the Schoolhouse
Sihua Hu* & Kaitlin T. Torphy*
*Equal first authorship
Forthcoming in the Handbook of Social Media Analytics: Advances and Applications
A Roadmap for Incorporating Online Social Media in Educational Research
Hamid Karimi, Tyler Derr, Kaitlin Torphy, Ken Frank, & Jiliang Tang. Forthcoming in the Teachers College Record Year Book Issue 2019.
John Lane, Brian Boggs, Zixi Chen, & Kaitlin Torphy. Forthcoming in the Teachers College Record Year Book Issue 2019.
Characterize Instructional Content
What do Teachers Share on Socialized Knowledge Communities: A Case of Pinterest
Sihua Hu, Kaitlin T. Torphy, Amanda Opperman, Kim Jansen & Yun-jia Lo
Journal of Professional Capital and Community March 2018
Kaitlin T. Torphy, Hamid Karimi, Jiliang Tang, Ken Frank, & Sihua Hu
In preparation.
Sihua Hu, Kaitlin T. Torphy, & Amanda Opperman. Forthcoming in the Teachers College Record Year Book Issue 2019.
Understanding Teacher Identities within Physical and Virtual Spaces as Social Capital: A Social Network Approach. Under Review.
Sihua Hu, Kaitlin T. Torphy, & Zixi Chen.
*Equal first authorship
Map Social Diffusion
Examining the Virtual Diffusion of Educational Resources Across Teachers’ Social Networks Over Time
Manuscript under review.
Yuqing Liu*, Kaitlin T. Torphy*, SIhua Hu, & Jiliang Tang
*Equal first authorship
Manuscript under review.
Kaitlin T. Torphy, Yuqing Liu, Sihua Hu, & Zixi Chen
From Cloud to Classroom: Mathematics Teachers’ Enactment of Resources Accessed Within Virtual Spaces
Manuscript under review.
Sihua Hu, Kaitlin T. Torphy, Kim Jansen & John Lane
Examine Policy Impacts
The Impacts of the Common Core State Standards on Teachers' Resource Seeking and Access on Pinterest
Kaitlin T. Torphy, Yuqing Liu, Sihua Hu, Jiliang Tang, & Ken Frank
How Do Teachers Align their Curated Online Resources to the Common Core State Standards?
Sihua Hu, Kaitlin T. Torphy, Zixi Chen, & Brendan Eagan
Indiana Elementary Teachers' Response to the High Stake IREAD-3 Assessment Policy: Evidence from Teachers' Instructional Resource Acquisition Within Pinterest
Zixi Chen*, Kaitlin T. Torphy*, Sihua Hu, Serena Salloum, Yuqing Liu, & Kat McConnell
*Equal first authorship
Coupling the planning and understanding of teaching and education policy with the change in students’ proficiency over time, big data connected to administrative data provide an opportunity to examine rich data on school change and student success in a way never before achievable at scale.
Supporting Teacher Training and Development
Providing teachers and students in teacher training with the skills necessary to curate instructional curriculum is a primary focus for the Teachers in Social Media Project. Currently, we are piloting a Reflection Guide (see documents below) that will support teachers' exploration of worthwhile mathematics instructional resources online. We see teachers' curation of instruction and supplemental curriculum as an integrated whole within Socialized Knowledge Communities and their own school-based collegial networks.
Sihua Hu & Kaitlin T. Torphy
We know teachers' engagement in social media is not bounded to the Pinterest platform. The Open Educational Resource movement (OER) is an example of state and federal actors working toward distributed leadership in curricular curation and online engagement within schools. Moving away from written textbooks, OER provides districts the opportunity to localize and adapt curriculum to their state standards, and students interests.
ISTE and New America with contributions from Dr. Kaitlin Torphy, Dr. Emily Hodges, Dr. Marcia Mardis, Dr. Serena Salloum, Dr. Susanna Benko, and Rebecca Morales.