Addressing the Problem of Always Starting Over: Identifying, Valuing, and Sharing Professional Knowledge for Teaching

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Jinfa Cai University of Delaware

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Footnotes

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1941494. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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