Our Work
Building Theory
Teachers Turning to Teachers: Teacherpreneurial Behavior Within Social Media
American Journal of Education. (Or Online here).
Kaitlin T. Torphy, Sihua Hu, Yuqing Liu & Zixi Chen
Educators Meet the Fifth Estate: The Role of Social Media in Teacher Training
Teachers College Record Year Book Issue Volume 121, no. 14. 2019. (Or Online here).
Kaitlin T. Torphy & Corey Drake.
Social Media, Who Cares? A Dialogue Between a Millennial and a Curmudgeon
Ken Frank* & Kaitlin T. Torphy* (*Equal Authorship)
Teachers College Record Year Book Issue Volume 121, no. 14. 2019. (Or Online here)
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 2020 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.
Teachers College Record Year Book Issue Volume 121, no. 14. 2019. (Or Online here).
John Lane, Brian Boggs, Zixi Chen, & Kaitlin Torphy.
Teachers College Record Year Book Issue Volume 121, no. 14. 2019. (Or Online here).
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 Online Edition.
Kaitlin T. Torphy, Hamid Karimi, Jiliang Tang, Ken Frank, & Sihua Hu
Under review.
Culturally Relevant Curriculum Materials in the Age of Social Media and Curation
Sihua Hu, Kaitlin T. Torphy, & Amanda Opperman.
Teachers College Record Year Book Issue Volume 121, no. 14. 2019. Online Edition.
Understanding Teacher Identities within Physical and Virtual Spaces as Social Capital: A Social Network Approach. Manuscript in Preparation.
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.
Yuqing Liu*, Kaitlin T. Torphy*, SIhua Hu, & Jiliang Tang (*Equal first authorship)
Teachers College Record, 122 (6), 1-34. Or Online here.
Kaitlin T. Torphy, Yuqing Liu, Sihua Hu, & Zixi Chen
Forthcoming in the American Journal of Education 2020.
From Cloud to Classroom: Mathematics Teachers’ Enactment of Resources Accessed Within Virtual Spaces.
Sihua Hu, Kaitlin T. Torphy, Kim Jansen & John Lane
Teachers College Record, 122 (6), 1-33. (Or Online here).
Teacher Connection in Online Social Media: Understating and Prediction in Pinterest
Hamid Karimi, Kaitlin T. Torphy, Tyler Derr, Kenneth Frank, & Jiliang Tang
Association for Computing Machinery Public Proceedings. (Online here).
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
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.
Building a Nationally Representative Sample of Teachers Online and Offline: The Public Instructional Network of School Resources. Manuscript Under Review.
Zixi Chen*, Kaitlin Torphy*, Hamid Karimi, & Nicole Donzella
*Equal First Author Contribution
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.