Math Education Faculty
cstepter@aldergse.edu

Pronouns: she/her/hers

China started her teaching career as a Seventh- and Eighth-Grade Math and Science Teacher at Sol Aureus College Preparatory in Sacramento, California, where she taught for six years. She earned her BA in Liberal Studies from CSU Sacramento, where she also earned her multiple subject teaching credential in CSUS’ Bilingual Multicultural Education (BMED) credential program. She holds supplemental teaching credentials in English and Social Studies. China earned her PhD from Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where her doctoral programs were Curriculum & Teacher Education in Math (CTE: Math) and Race, Inequality, & Language in Education (RILE).

At Stanford, China’s research work focused on identifying and addressing aspects of math education that restrict students’ access to learning and engaging in classroom-based mathematics. At Alder, she is currently researching the impact of High Quality Instructional Material (HQIM) awareness on residents’ orientation towards teaching and learning mathematics. In addition to China’s past and current research projects, her own academic interests in mathematics are at the intersection of math, art, and imagination.