Faculty Profiles

Dr. Sarah van Ingen Lauer

Associate Professor: mathematics education, Elementary Education, Teacher education

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Email: vaningen@usf.edu
Office: USF Tampa campus, EDU 202-U

Dr. Sarah van Ingen Lauer is a tenured, Associate Professor at the University of South Florida where her research focuses on innovation in clinically rich teacher preparation- and specifically on equipping teachers to meet the mathematics learning needs of all children. Dr. van Ingen Lauer has directed the award-winning Urban Teacher Residency Partnership Program. She has also been PI and Co-PI of major federal grants from NSF and the US DOE, totaling more than 4.8 million dollars.  She is a prolific author, co-authoring the book Teaching Mathematics Meaningfully: Solutions for Reaching Struggling Learners and has numerous research publications. She regularly presents to national and international audiences about how teachers can facilitate improved opportunities for students to find success in mathematics. These include how teachers learn to use research to inform their teaching, and how general education mathematics teachers can consult with special education teachers to meet the needs of students with exceptionalities in mathematics. Her national presence has included leadership roles for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) and Chairing the Research Use Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association (AERA). Her excellence in teaching was recognized by the 2019 USF Undergraduate Teaching award. She regularly teaches courses in mathematics education and teacher preparation at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. She has also partnered multiple times with Innovative Education to create state-of-the-art, engaging, and high quality online courses.

Recent Publications:

  • Vomvoridi-Ivanovic, E., van Ingen Lauer, S., & Ward, J. (In Press). "We are boundary spanners": Leveraging mathematics teacher educators’ caregiving experiences to enhance communication with families. Educational Studies in Mathematics, Special Issue: Parents, caregivers, and community in mathematics education.
  • van Ingen Lauer, S. , Eskelson, S., Allsopp, D., Siegemund, S., Bock, A., Capellini, V., Maturana, A., & Liu, D. (2024). Preparing teachers for content-specific consultations: Perspectives from four continents. The Electronic Journal for Research in Science and Mathematics Education, 28(3), 63-83.
  • Mather, N., McHale-Small, M., Allsopp, D. & van Ingen Lauer, S. (2024). We need to keep (but revise) the specific learning disability construct in IDEA. LDAnalyses.
  • van Ingen Lauer, S., & Ariew, S. (2024).  Addressing the Dunning-Kruger effect through research logs. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 24(3), 633-652. doi.org/10.1353/pla.2024.a931774
  • Allsopp, D.H., van Ingen Lauer, S., & Eskelson, S. (2024). Collaborative Planning: The Critical Foundation for Successful Math Interventions. Teaching Exceptional Children. Doi: 10.1177/00400599241242326
  • van Ingen Lauer, S., Allsopp, D., McHale-Small, M., Tridas, E., Cardenas-Hagan, E., Scott, K., & Kane, C. (2023). The Learning Disability Association of America’s Specific Learning Disability Evaluation Principles and Standards. Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 28(2). doi.org/10.18666/ldmj-2023-v28-i2-12226
  • Ward, J., Vomvoridi-Ivanovic, E., & van Ingen Lauer, S. (2023). Unearthing the knowledge of mathematics teacher educator mothers: Journeying from dehumanization to power through self-study. Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal, 40,
  • McHale-Small, M.,Tridas, E.,S., Cárdenas-Hagan, E.,Allsopp, D.H., van Ingen Lauer, S.,Scott,K., & Elbeheri, G. (2023). Specific Learning Disabilities Principles and Standards.  Learning Disabilities Association of America. ldaamerica.org
  • Van Ingen Lauer, S. Ward, J. & Vomvoridi-Ivanovic, E. (2023, October 25). Humanizing mathematics teacher educators’ expertise: A self-study of parenting as informal learning. Proceedings of the 2023 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Conference. [online:
  • van Ingen Lauer, S. & Ariew, S. (2022). How the questions of novice teachers evolve when linking research to practice. Teaching and Teacher Education, 109, 1-10. Doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2021.103539
  • Vomvoridi-Ivanovic, E., Ward, J., & van Ingen Lauer, S. (2021). Exploring academic motherhood in mathematics education. In D. Kollosche (Ed.), Exploring new ways to connect: Proceedings of the 11th Mathematics Education and Society International Conference. (Vol 1, pp. 239-242). Tredition.
  • Allsopp, D., Lovin, L., & van Ingen, S. (2018). Teaching mathematics meaningfully: Solutions for reaching struggling learners (2nd ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Brookes Publishing.