Nicole McNeil
nicolemmcneil.bsky.social
Nicole McNeil
@nicolemmcneil.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, Carnegie Mellon alum. Mathematical cognition, symbolic reasoning, and reading research. Advocate for high impact tutoring and #opensci. On, Wisconsin! 🏟 Go Irish! ☘️
There's a teacher shortage in US classrooms. Andrew Kwok will be at Notre Dame to share how to strengthen the educator pipeline. He'll discuss how early teaching exposure can attract diverse, high-achieving prospective educators.

Join us, September 12, 1pm, Remick Commons. Open to the public.
September 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Finally, also in Session 3: our resident superhero Michelle Luna (Managing Director of Tutor-ND @michelleluna.bsky.social) will present work examining how preschoolers’ spontaneous use of different types of math language during a picture description task relates to their early numeracy skills.
July 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
On to Session 3: Amy Miyahara worked w/ lead author Anna Bartel and an amazing team of collaborators from WestEd. They’ll be talking about how to incorporate feedback into an existing evidence-based supplementary math program (ICUE.nd.edu) + move it online (via ASSISTments) to make it even better!
July 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Another in Session 1 will be presented by Jane Otuonye. She worked w/ Amy Miyahara and language expert Kathy Eberhard to examine if certain features of counting books can increase a parent’s natural use of modifier-after-noun language (e.g., “Look, penguins! There are three!”) during book reading.
July 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Rose Beacham will present work w/ Sarah Ochocki and Amy Miyahara. They analyzed the use of inferential language in popular literacy passages. Turns out it’s rarer than we hoped, which raises questions about how well tutoring texts are designed to support comprehension and higher-order thinking.
July 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Stop by the #AERA2025 paper session at 3:35 pm this afternoon in Bluebird 3B to support the CLAD Lab’s Amy Miyahara in her very first conference presentation! She’ll be sharing exciting research on how different types of feedback can support children solving math equivalence problems. Don’t miss it!
April 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM