From its early development to the 2025 meeting, the Global Education Deans Forum reflects shifting responses to global educational change. Leaders gathered in the United States in 2025 to discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming teaching, teacher education, and institutional decision-making. Conversations emphasized collaboration, ethical reflection, and scalable innovation. ECNU’s involvement highlighted its continued commitment to international exchange, research-informed practice, and shaping future-oriented education leadership worldwide across diverse systems and cultural contexts

A study published in ECNU Review of Education explores how cultural contexts shape pre-service teachers’ noticing of students’ mathematical thinking. Using a cartoon-based vignette on fraction errors, researchers compared responses from Spanish and German teacher trainees. While both groups identified key aspects of student understanding, German participants emphasized classroom management, whereas Spanish participants focused on conceptual reasoning, reflecting differences in teacher education traditions.

Effective teacher noticing supports teacher learning by enabling reflection of what was noticed, or missed, during teaching. A new study examined two primary school mathematics teachers from China to understand their professional noticing in everyday classroom contexts. The researchers investigated what teachers noticed about students' mathematics learning and how this noticing translated into instructional decisions.