Data drives decisions across economics, health, and sports—yet marginalized communities are often excluded. This session shows how our math classrooms can change that. Experience a community-rooted, data-rich approach for Integrated Math 1–3 and Ethnic Stats. We share sample tasks (investment modeling, UCSF Health Atlas scatterplots, and analyzing school funding) and vetted resources, then help you design statistics activities using locally relevant datasets. Leave with plan-ready materials and strategies that help students see themselves—and their communities—in mathematics and in the data-driven decisions shaping their world.
This session presents how Nigerian middle school girls utilize narratives and comics storytelling to reflect on their lived experiences, reimagine their mathematics identity, and envision future possibilities. Through story circles, enactment of a co created comics narrative, and dialogue, participants will explore intersections of identity and agency development. The session concludes with collective brainstorming of actionable strategies to foster identity and agency development in their mathematics learning spaces advancing equity and affirming the brilliance of students, particularly Black girls globally.
How can we root mathematics in humanity so that every learner finds meaning and belonging? Can a math lesson spark curiosity, agency, and social change all at once? Join this interactive session to explore strategies for making math meaningful, relevant, and socially conscious. Participants will learn how to integrate technology, real-life contexts, and social justice into mathematics instruction while using the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining STEAM Curriculum Scorecard to reflect on their own practices. Through engaging collaboration and analysis of Illustrative Mathematics lessons, attendees will leave equipped with concrete tools, such as math lesson examples incorporating social justice topics, and the following steps to center student identity, community, and justice in math learning, which fulfills TODOS’ mission of mathematics for all through purposeful, equity-driven teaching.
Professor of Secondary Education, Coordinator, Bilingual Authorization Program, California State University Fullerton
Dr. Ferran/Fernando Rodríguez-Valls is professor of secondary education at California State University, Fullerton. Prior to this appointment, he was the state administrator for the Migrant Education Program in California. In the past seven years, Dr. Rodríguez-Valls has created... Read More →
Thursday June 25, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT Royal CDEF
All are welcome and encouraged to join teachers and parents in celebrating their students at this Gates Foundation-sponsored awards ceremony and dinner.
Dinner is included for all, regardless of your registration type (e.g., Equitable, Self-Funded, and Intitution-funded), sponsored by the Gates Foundation.
Thursday June 25, 2026 5:00pm - 6:45pm PDT Royal CDEF
