Episode 5: When Relationships Add Up | Long-Term Impact of Teacher-Student Relationships in Math

What is the long-term impact of teacher-student relationships in math?

In the final episode of What Counts, we follow one student's story and reflect on what unfolded when a math teacher chose connection, high expectations, and belief.

Through this vignette, we see how teacher-student relationships in a secondary math classroom can influence a student's confidence, participation, and sense of mathematical identity over time.

This episode brings the series full circle, moving from research and reflection to lived experience, and explores how relationship-centered math instruction shapes how students experience learning long after a single lesson ends.

What Counts is a professional learning podcast for middle and high school math teachers exploring teacher-student relationships, student voice, math identity, and classroom culture. The show is presented by Impact Florida and produced by De LeCourt.