Dottie “Toti” Vea
@dottievea.bsky.social
PhD student | SPED policy & decision-making (SLD, equity)
CEC DLA ’25–’26 | Breaking Barriers: Math for Diverse Learners ’25–’26
CEC DLA ’25–’26 | Breaking Barriers: Math for Diverse Learners ’25–’26
#ResearchAdvent Gift - My daughter has been our gift. And my gift to her is showing her mom did work to contribute to society ❤️🙏🏽 #PhDSky #PhDJourney
Here we go!
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#ResearchAdvent Gift - My daughter has been our gift. And my gift to her is showing her mom did work to contribute to society ❤️🙏🏽 #PhDSky #PhDJourney
#ResearchAdvent Day 18 - Inspiration. Gosh, what isn’t?! The students at my school, the amazing cohort I’m apart of, my family, the serendipities of life. Currently inspired.
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
#ResearchAdvent Day 18 - Inspiration. Gosh, what isn’t?! The students at my school, the amazing cohort I’m apart of, my family, the serendipities of life. Currently inspired.
#ResearchAdvent Day 16 - Change.
What a year! I think the biggest change has been the sudden passing of my dad in the summer just a month before starting my PhD.
What a year!
What a year! I think the biggest change has been the sudden passing of my dad in the summer just a month before starting my PhD.
What a year!
December 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#ResearchAdvent Day 16 - Change.
What a year! I think the biggest change has been the sudden passing of my dad in the summer just a month before starting my PhD.
What a year!
What a year! I think the biggest change has been the sudden passing of my dad in the summer just a month before starting my PhD.
What a year!
#ResearchAdvent Day 15 Place - I like our library where we can walk/bike while studying. Also, the gym is my place to reset, reflect and refocus.
Here we go!
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
December 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
#ResearchAdvent Day 15 Place - I like our library where we can walk/bike while studying. Also, the gym is my place to reset, reflect and refocus.
#ResearchAdvent Day 14
My scholarship focuses on SPED policy & decision-making especially how SLD eligibility is interpreted in practice and what that means for equity.
Currently in CEC Diversity Leadership Academy & Breaking Barriers: Elevating Math for Diverse Learners PD cohort (2025–2026).
My scholarship focuses on SPED policy & decision-making especially how SLD eligibility is interpreted in practice and what that means for equity.
Currently in CEC Diversity Leadership Academy & Breaking Barriers: Elevating Math for Diverse Learners PD cohort (2025–2026).
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#ResearchAdvent Day 14
My scholarship focuses on SPED policy & decision-making especially how SLD eligibility is interpreted in practice and what that means for equity.
Currently in CEC Diversity Leadership Academy & Breaking Barriers: Elevating Math for Diverse Learners PD cohort (2025–2026).
My scholarship focuses on SPED policy & decision-making especially how SLD eligibility is interpreted in practice and what that means for equity.
Currently in CEC Diversity Leadership Academy & Breaking Barriers: Elevating Math for Diverse Learners PD cohort (2025–2026).
I’m realizing my work lives in the in-between. Practice, research, policy, lived experience, all talking to each other. Gloria Anzaldúa wrote about this kind of borderland knowledge long before I had words for it.
Practice ↔ Research
Research ↔ Policy
Policy ↔ Lived experience
Practice ↔ Research
Research ↔ Policy
Policy ↔ Lived experience
December 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I’m realizing my work lives in the in-between. Practice, research, policy, lived experience, all talking to each other. Gloria Anzaldúa wrote about this kind of borderland knowledge long before I had words for it.
Practice ↔ Research
Research ↔ Policy
Policy ↔ Lived experience
Practice ↔ Research
Research ↔ Policy
Policy ↔ Lived experience
I wonder...
when structured, team-based decisions supports lead to more consistent eligibility decisions; could that reduce error or bias? Could that lead to better aligned with IDEA intent?
#IDEA #SPEDLaw #Policy #Compliance #School
when structured, team-based decisions supports lead to more consistent eligibility decisions; could that reduce error or bias? Could that lead to better aligned with IDEA intent?
#IDEA #SPEDLaw #Policy #Compliance #School
December 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I wonder...
when structured, team-based decisions supports lead to more consistent eligibility decisions; could that reduce error or bias? Could that lead to better aligned with IDEA intent?
#IDEA #SPEDLaw #Policy #Compliance #School
when structured, team-based decisions supports lead to more consistent eligibility decisions; could that reduce error or bias? Could that lead to better aligned with IDEA intent?
#IDEA #SPEDLaw #Policy #Compliance #School
Reposted by Dottie “Toti” Vea
Competitive Effects of the Expansion of Means-Tested Private School Vouchers in North Carolina www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"We find no consistent evidence that voucher expansion affected public school achievement...Analyses by student subgroups similarly yield null effects."
"We find no consistent evidence that voucher expansion affected public school achievement...Analyses by student subgroups similarly yield null effects."
Competitive Effects of the Expansion of Means-Tested Private School Vouchers in North Carolina
We examine whether North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program generated achievement effects for public school students. Using statewide administrative data and a student fixed-effects design,...
www.tandfonline.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Competitive Effects of the Expansion of Means-Tested Private School Vouchers in North Carolina www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"We find no consistent evidence that voucher expansion affected public school achievement...Analyses by student subgroups similarly yield null effects."
"We find no consistent evidence that voucher expansion affected public school achievement...Analyses by student subgroups similarly yield null effects."
#ResearchAdvent Day 13 - Friends. I'm so grateful for my PhD cohort, we're a small group of 5, but I truly am amazed by them and love their company. Jimmy, Stephen, Shawna, and Francis 'ofa lahi 'atu to each of you and your wonderful families.
December 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
#ResearchAdvent Day 13 - Friends. I'm so grateful for my PhD cohort, we're a small group of 5, but I truly am amazed by them and love their company. Jimmy, Stephen, Shawna, and Francis 'ofa lahi 'atu to each of you and your wonderful families.
1st Semester of ELP PhD almost done and this is what my interests are looking like:
Math
SLD identification
decision-making under uncertainty
experimental design
Math
SLD identification
decision-making under uncertainty
experimental design
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
1st Semester of ELP PhD almost done and this is what my interests are looking like:
Math
SLD identification
decision-making under uncertainty
experimental design
Math
SLD identification
decision-making under uncertainty
experimental design
#ResearchAdvent Day 12 - Thinkers. I immediately “think” of Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer and Dr. Epeli Hauʻofa. I’ve been blessed by their works. #Grateful
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
#ResearchAdvent Day 12 - Thinkers. I immediately “think” of Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer and Dr. Epeli Hauʻofa. I’ve been blessed by their works. #Grateful
#ResearchAdvent Day 11 - I’m excited to learn and grow with this leadership cohort this year! @cecmembership.bsky.social here we come!
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#ResearchAdvent Day 11 - I’m excited to learn and grow with this leadership cohort this year! @cecmembership.bsky.social here we come!
Day 10 #ResearchAdvent Methodology. For my research & design methods course we were tasked to only use visuals and speak on our designs. I’m a 1st year and currently interested in randomized experiments in educational policy research.
December 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Day 10 #ResearchAdvent Methodology. For my research & design methods course we were tasked to only use visuals and speak on our designs. I’m a 1st year and currently interested in randomized experiments in educational policy research.
The way this entire room of educators gasped in awe from this sleep information was the most relatable moment.
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The way this entire room of educators gasped in awe from this sleep information was the most relatable moment.
Day 4 – I hope my daughter sees my work and knows I did my best to serve the beautiful world.
Here we go!
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Day 4 – I hope my daughter sees my work and knows I did my best to serve the beautiful world.
You are my Day 3 #ResearchAdvent post. I appreciate you making me more aware of wicked theory. I saw it in my research. I didn’t know the depth of the term until now. Thank you 🙏🏽
This sounds like one of those ‘wicked’ edu problems.
Good to meet you.
Good to meet you.
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
You are my Day 3 #ResearchAdvent post. I appreciate you making me more aware of wicked theory. I saw it in my research. I didn’t know the depth of the term until now. Thank you 🙏🏽
Day 1 #ResearchAdvent 1st Year PhD student in Education, Leadership & Policy. I study how educator decision-making transforms policy into practice, with a focus on improving equity and consistency, especially in special education eligibility.
Here we go!
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Day 1 #ResearchAdvent 1st Year PhD student in Education, Leadership & Policy. I study how educator decision-making transforms policy into practice, with a focus on improving equity and consistency, especially in special education eligibility.
One of the better advent calendars I’ve seen. Thank you for this! I’m considering it.
Here we go!
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
Are you ready?
2025’s #ResearchAdvent
A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the better advent calendars I’ve seen. Thank you for this! I’m considering it.
For the past 5 years, it has been amazing to see Julie Weatherly present at our Special Education Law Conference. I have always been a fan!
July 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
For the past 5 years, it has been amazing to see Julie Weatherly present at our Special Education Law Conference. I have always been a fan!
Been diving into Numerical Analysis, Probability & Stats, and Project Management—all on the train. Math + systems thinking have been unexpectedly joyful. Big thanks to Terezija Semenski for the ML book recs. Learning for fun feels so good right now. 📚🧠🚆
July 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Been diving into Numerical Analysis, Probability & Stats, and Project Management—all on the train. Math + systems thinking have been unexpectedly joyful. Big thanks to Terezija Semenski for the ML book recs. Learning for fun feels so good right now. 📚🧠🚆
Reading from the Wiley Series on probability today, it’s technical, but kind of fascinating.
Now I’m curious about the people behind the theorems. Who were they? What were they solving?
Math history feels like this quiet backstory no one tells us.
#MathHistory #WileySeries #Probability #CuriousMind
Now I’m curious about the people behind the theorems. Who were they? What were they solving?
Math history feels like this quiet backstory no one tells us.
#MathHistory #WileySeries #Probability #CuriousMind
July 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reading from the Wiley Series on probability today, it’s technical, but kind of fascinating.
Now I’m curious about the people behind the theorems. Who were they? What were they solving?
Math history feels like this quiet backstory no one tells us.
#MathHistory #WileySeries #Probability #CuriousMind
Now I’m curious about the people behind the theorems. Who were they? What were they solving?
Math history feels like this quiet backstory no one tells us.
#MathHistory #WileySeries #Probability #CuriousMind
Reposted by Dottie “Toti” Vea
Gmail's UI has had a blurry icon for months and I am no longer ok to be quiet about this.
July 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Gmail's UI has had a blurry icon for months and I am no longer ok to be quiet about this.
“That’s the beauty of limits: they don’t depend on the actual value of the function at the limit. They describe how the function behaves when it gets close to the limit.” - From Khan Academy
#MathJourney #Calculus #NumericalAnalysis #LearningInPublic
#MathJourney #Calculus #NumericalAnalysis #LearningInPublic
July 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“That’s the beauty of limits: they don’t depend on the actual value of the function at the limit. They describe how the function behaves when it gets close to the limit.” - From Khan Academy
#MathJourney #Calculus #NumericalAnalysis #LearningInPublic
#MathJourney #Calculus #NumericalAnalysis #LearningInPublic
For the past 3 weeks my mom and siblings have been staying with my dad at the hospital. Soon school will start and both my brother and I work in education. It’s been a blessing to be stay by my dad’s side through his healing journey. Who knew he’d be glad for summers this way, I know I am.
July 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For the past 3 weeks my mom and siblings have been staying with my dad at the hospital. Soon school will start and both my brother and I work in education. It’s been a blessing to be stay by my dad’s side through his healing journey. Who knew he’d be glad for summers this way, I know I am.