Matthew Campbell, PhD

Dr. Matthew Campbell is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and an Associate Director in the School of Education at WVU. At WVU, Dr. Campbell teaches courses as part of preservice teacher preparation programs as well as graduate programs. As Associate Director, he serves as Coordinator of Teacher Education, supporting educator preparation across programs and units at WVU. In that role, Dr. Campbell leads, facilitates, and supervises efforts related to school placements, certification, school partnerships and stakeholder engagement, interactions with state agencies, and program approvals.

Dr. Campbell is the Principal Investigator of the project, Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers (M3T), which is currently funded by a six-year grant from NSF's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (2020-2026, NSF Grant No. 1950217) and additional support from the West Virginia Department of Education. The project currently supports a statewide networked improvement community of 40 middle and high school mathematics teacher leader Fellows, representing 30 county school districts across West Virginia, plus more than 100 additional mathematics teachers participating on local improvement teams—all collectively working to improve mathematics teaching and learning across the state.

Dr. Campbell's research is focused on the preparation and professional education of teachers, with particular attention to secondary mathematics teachers. This includes investigation of innovative and transformative ways to support the recruitment, preparation, retention, and continued support of teachers and teacher leaders, particularly in rural contexts. He also has a long-running line of scholarly work focused on the use of practice-based teacher education pedagogies, with a particular focus on supporting teachers’ development of skill with facilitating mathematics discussions. His research has been published in Journal of Teacher Education, Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Education Policy Analysis Archives, among other journals.

Dr. Campbell is a first-generation college student and a product of public K-12 education and of research-intensive, public land-grant institutions of higher education. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. from Oregon State University. He taught high school mathematics in New York and North Carolina prior to pursuing graduate studies.