HCD in K-12 Education

González, G., Garg, S., & Shehab, S. (2025). Geometry teachers’ reflections-in-action for noticing students’ design thinking during lesson study. In R. M. Zbiek, X. Yao, A. McCloskey, & F. Arbaugh (Eds.), Proceedings of the forty-seventh annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 356-360). Pennsylvania State University. https://doi.org/ 10.51272/pmena.47.2025

Shehab, S., Pak, J., Attarian, R., & Heredia, M. (2025). Designing Scaffolding Cards for Design Challenges in K-12 Settings. In the Proceedings of the LearnxDesign 2025 Conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Guerrero, B. & Shehab, S. (2025). The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Human-Centered Design Professional Learning Community in a High School Setting. International Society of Learning Sciences (ISLS) [Conference Session]. Helsinki, Finland

Shehab, S., & Bergandine, D. (2024). Chemistry by Design: A 4-week in-person and virtual activity to teach chemistry through Human-Centered Design. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 25(1), 61-68

González, G., Shehab, S. & Powers, E. (2024, April). Teaching geometry to advance design justice. In T. Lowrie, A. Gutiérrez, & F. Emprin (Eds.). The 26th International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) Study: Advances in Geometry Education, Conference Pre-Proceedings. INSPE, University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, France. 

Tucker, T., & Shehab, S. (2024). People Designing for People: A one-week human-centered design engineering summer camp for pre-college students. The Science Teacher, 91(2), 54-60  

González, G., & Shehab, S. (2022, August). Teaching geometry with a Human-Centered Design approach. In Robichaud, X. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2022 Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS) Conference (pp. 102-112). Université de Moncton, Campus de Shippagan, Canada

Shehab, S. (2021). Designing a three levels poster to visualize chemical reactions. Science Activities, 58(2), 65-69.

Malik, M. G., & González, G. (2026, June). Reimagining geometry through design to promote empathy: Creating a lantern with math modeling. Accepted to be presented at the TODOS conference, Orange County, CA. 

Shehab, S., & González, G. (2026, May). Designing for teacher learning in online lesson study: Artefacts, boundary objects, and distributed human-centered design practices. Presented at the International Society for Design and Development in Education Conference, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Shehab, S., González, G., & Powers, E. (2026, April). Examining geometry teachers’ changes to design-based lessons for engaging students in math modelling. Poster presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Garg, S., González, G., & Heredia, M. (2026, April). Materiality, math, and design: Middle school students prototyping water conservation solutions. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

González, G., Park. J., Garg, S., & Kong, A. (February, 2026). Geo Design Lab. Creative Connections: At the Intersection of Art and STEMM, 2026 C-U STEAMM Fair with Illinois Center for Family and Community Engaged STEAMM (FACES), University of Illinois.

González, G., Shehab, S., & Powers, E. (2025, November). Supporting teacher learning to create and teach design-based mathematics lessons through lesson study. Paper presented at the World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS), Hiroshima, Japan.

Shehab, S., & González, G. (2025, November). Using human-centered design to facilitate lesson study activities to implement a virtual professional development on design-based lessons. Presented at the World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS), Hiroshima, Japan.

Garg, S., González, G., & Pak, J. (2025, October). Designing a water conservation solution. Presentation at the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

González, G., Powers, E., & Heredia, M. (2025, October). Using geometry to design a cultural values poster. Presentation at the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

Powers, E., González, G., & Heredia, M. (2025, October). Using geometry to design a zero-waste belt bag. Presentation at the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

González, G., Garg, S., Powers, E., & Shehab, S. (2025, August). Designing a math modeling lesson about zero-waste fashion designs for middle school math students. Paper presented at the Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS) Conference (online), Université de Moncton, Campus de Shippagan, Canada.

González, G., & Shehab, S. (2025, June). Engaging teachers in integrating human-centered design for Geometry problem-based instruction. Poster presented at the National Science Foundation’s Discovery Research K-12, Principal Investigators’ Meeting, Washington, D.C.

González, G. (2025, March). Exploring the intersections of mathematical modeling and design through Geometry. Presentation at the 2025 Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference(LatMath), Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California, Los Angeles.

González, G., & Heredia, M. (2024, August). Möbius Zipscarf. Presented at the Bridges Conference Math+Fashion Show, Richmond, VA.

Ortega Betancourt, J., Garg, G., & González, G. (2024, August). The Math Party T-Shirt. Presented at the Bridges Conference Math+Fashion Show, Richmond, VA.

Shehab, S., & González, G. (2025, April 23-27).  [Roundtable session]. Merging lesson study and Human-Centered Design for Innovative Professional Development. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denverl, CO, United States. 

González, G., & Shehab, S. (2025, April 23-27).  [Roundtable session]. Teacher noticing during an open lesson and video club bricolage. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denverl, CO, United States. 

Shell, J.K., Tapiawala, V., Parks, T., & Shehab, S. (June 23–26, 2024). Ongoing evaluation of pre-college students’ learning outcomes during a human-centered engineering design summer camp [Poster session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, United States.

Tucker, T., & Shehab, S. (2023, June 25-28). Evaluating the impact of a one-week Human-Centered Design engineering summer camp on pre-college students’ learning outcomes (RTP) [Paper presentation]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD, United States.  

González, G., & Shehab, S. (2022, August). Teaching geometry with a Human-Centered Design approach [Paper session]. The Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS) Conference (virtual), Université de Moncton, Campus de Shippagan, Canada.

Shehab, S., & Bergandine, D. (2022, July 31-August 4). Teaching chemistry through Human-Centered Design [Conference Session]. The Biennial Conference on Chemistry Education (BCCE), Purdue University, IN, United States.