TODOS 2026 Conference

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9:30am PDT

Co-Learning with Data Stories: Rooting Data Practices in Humanity

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

This session explores how co–learning data practices can ground mathematics and statistics in humanity. Drawing from a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) initiative, where youth and adults used CODAP to explore data stories, we invite participants to engage with video excerpts illustrating relational and culturally sustaining approaches to data literacy. Using the Notice, Wonder, Feel, Act, Reimagine (Kahn et al., 2022) framework, participants will reflect on what it means to learn alongside youth and reimagine data exploration as an intergenerational co-learning practice.

Speakers

Sabrina Zarza

Maria Cruciani

Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

Michigan State University

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
Royal CDEF

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience Elementary School (K-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), College, General Interest

9:30am PDT

Drawing on teacher ingenuity and collective wisdom to bring Ethnic Studies Pedagogy into Elementary Mathematics Classrooms

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

Royal A

This session, presented by a learning community of early career teachers, offers classroom examples of how principles of Ethnic Studies pedagogy can be infused into PK-5 math teaching. We will examine and discuss student work and classroom artifacts that show how teachers have created learning math experiences for children that are culturally relevant, community responsive, and humanizing. We will also discuss how our co-designed teacher learning community has helped us stay nourished and inspired as math educators while we navigate constraining systems of schooling and fraught sociopolitical contexts.

Speakers

Mallika Scott

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
Royal A

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience Elementary School (K-5), Preschool/Early Childhood

9:30am PDT

Leading With and Through Cultural Competence: Transformative Mathematics Education Leadership

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

Terrace CD

Cultural competence is the foundation of transformative mathematics leadership and a critical element of cultivating systems that uplift students and teachers. In this interactive session, participants will explore Leadership Action 2 from the NCSM Framework for Culturally Relevant Leadership: building cultural competence and creating a culture of continuous reflection and improvement. Participants will reflect on their own cultural perspectives, discuss strategies to foster cultural awareness, and identify steps to transform their systems together. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to promote cultural competence, activate teacher agency, and build systems that center belonging and humanity in mathematics education.

Speakers

Katey Arrington

Director of Systemic Transformation, Dana Center, President, NCSM

Dr. Katey Arrington is the President of NCSM: Leadership in Mathematics Education and the Director of Systemic Transformation at the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She leads national, state, and district level initiatives to improve STEM education for... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
Terrace CD

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Systems & Accountability
Audience General Interest

9:30am PDT

Linguistically Equitable Mathematics Instruction for Emergent Multilinguals

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

Terrace AB

It is a misconception that math is a “universal language.” Monolingual math assessments often obscure the mathematical abilities of multilingual students, perpetuating inequitable outcomes. This session, aligned with the Curriculum and Instruction strand, empowers educators to recognize and dismantle linguistic barriers that limit access to rigorous mathematics. Through collaborative analysis of math assessments and exploration of equitable instructional strategies, participants will learn how to design linguistically accessible tasks that honor students’ diverse identities. Attendees will leave equipped to implement practices that advance TODOS’s mission of ensuring high-quality, equitable mathematics education for all learners.

Speakers

Leonor

Educator, Newport- Mesa Unified School District

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
Terrace AB

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience Elementary School (K-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), General Interest

9:30am PDT

Mapping the Commitment to Equity: Where TEEM Research Aligns with TODOS and What Gaps Remain

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

Regal

We invite you to explore the future direction of the TEEM journal. This session presents a comprehensive content analysis of 80 TEEM articles (2009–2025), mapping publication trends and thematic areas with the five TODOS Missions. We utilized an initial AI-assisted analysis followed by a robust human reanalysis to identify areas of saturation. We will present data showing the alignment of all articles, with a specific focus on the 17 articles centered on students. We will conclude by collaboratively generating suggestions for future TEEM special issues to address these identified gaps.

Speakers

Jiyeong Yi

Associate Professor, Iowa State University

Associate professor in Math Education at Iowa State University, specializing in mathematics education. My research focuses on supporting teachers in effectively teaching mathematics to Emergent Bilingual students.

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
Regal

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Systems & Accountability
Audience General Interest

9:30am PDT

Mathematizing Our Lives

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

Imperial

Relationship-building with our students is a vital aspect of creating community in our classes. Come learn how to embed yourself into your content through captivating stories. Such sharing about yourself can strengthen your relationships with your students because they will get to know you while your curriculum comes to life. By modeling how we can mathematize our lives, students will recognize mathematizing as a valuable human activity and a useful tool for problem-solving in their own lives.

Speakers

Mr Kit Math

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
Imperial

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience General Interest, Elementary School (K-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), College

9:30am PDT

Unpacking Eurocentrism in the Secondary Math Classroom Through Ethnomathematics

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

Royal B

Have you heard of Pythagoras? Fibonacci? We are aware of the Eurocentric view of Mathematics, but not where these concepts truly originated from. In this session, you will gain practical ideas on how to decolonize your math curriculum by showcasing the non-European roots of these mathematical concepts. Whether you want to create your own elective course or incorporate standalone lessons woven into your math curriculum, you will leave this session with low-lift curriculum resources to bring back to your school contexts to decenter white contributions to the math we learn about in our traditional math classes.

Speakers

Lekha Tantry

Friday June 26, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
Royal B

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience High School (9-12), Middle School (6-8), General Interest

10:45am PDT

Building Infinite Thinking Circles: Humanizing Mathematics through the Trans Math Languaging Framework

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

Terrace CD

This session engages participants in Trans Math Languaging (TML) –a framework integrating translanguaging, hybridity, co-knowledge creation, and emotional reflexivity to rehumanize mathematics. Through the interactive lesson Building Thinking Circles: Falling forever and Infinite Mathematical Possibilities, participants experience how multilingual and identity-affirming pedagogy cultivates belonging and creativity. Grounded in the Todos/NCSM (2016) Social Justice Position Statement, research on whiteness emotionality (Matias, 2016), and rehumanizing mathematics (Gutiérrez, 2018), this session bridges theory and practice to demonstrate how emotional, linguistic, and cultural repertoires can transform mathematics into a space of humanity and collective agency.

Speakers

Jenny Chabriel-Amara

Joseph Amara

Deb Stetson

Director, Math Project at Sacramento State

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
Terrace CD

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience High School (9-12)

10:45am PDT

Digital Storytelling as a Rehumanizing Tool in Mathematics Teacher Education: Voices of Rural, First-Generation, and Low-Income Communities

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

Royal B

This interactive session explores how digital storytelling can serve as a rehumanizing tool in mathematics teacher education. Drawing from the experiences of rural, first-generation, and low-income pre-service teachers, participants will examine how storytelling helps pre-service teachers reflect on their mathematical identities, challenge deficit narratives, and connect mathematics to community and culture. Attendees will view authentic teacher-created stories, engage in guided reflection, and design their own short math narratives. Together, we will consider how digital storytelling can transform beliefs, promote belonging, and inspire equitable practices in mathematics classrooms and teacher preparation programs.

Speakers

Theodore Chao

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

Theodore Chao (he/him/his) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Professor Chao uses video, photovoice, and technology to engage children, teachers, and community members in telling and sharing their mathematics stories... Read More →

Ruth Oliwe

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
Royal B

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

Strand Beliefs & Structures
Audience College

10:45am PDT

Mathematical Conventions: A Framework to Unpack, Break, and Explore

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

Royal CDEF

Mathematics as a school subject is a cultural product developed by generations of mathematicians. The conventions we teach—the symbols we privilege, the names we memorialize, and the algorithms we call “standard”—are culturally constructed and historically exclusive. By uncritically reproducing these conventions, we risk reinforcing an epistemology that denies students’ cultural and intellectual identities. This session introduces a framework that organizes mathematical conventions into seven categories and invites participants to acknowledge their origins, examine their rationales, and explore non-Western alternatives through interactive tasks that involve unpacking, breaking, and reimagining familiar conventions in mathematics teaching and learning.

Speakers

Ingrid Ristroph

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
Royal CDEF

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience General Interest

10:45am PDT

Designing Community-Centered Data Talks: Tools for Equitable Elementary Data Science

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

Regal

Today’s world is data-driven, and data literacy is foundational for student success, agency, and civic participation. This interactive session immerses participants in community-rooted data investigations that position multilingual learners and historically marginalized students as mathematical sense-makers. Using the cycle Wonder → Collect/Curate → Represent → Interpret → Act, we model data talks, accessible representations (tally tables, dot plots, bar graphs), and bilingual language supports that connect mathematics to family and neighborhood contexts. Attendees leave with a planning template, prompts, scaffolds, and a quick rubric to launch within two weeks. This session aims to have teachers place students’ own worlds at the center of rigorous math learning.

Speakers

Gianna Shields

Project Staff, SJSU

I am a doctoral student at San Josè State University and the Executive Director of the Noyce Grant at SJSU. I spent 7 years in K-5 education and have been a CSU lecturer for 6 years in the department of Elementary Education.

Sandra Zuniga Ruiz

Project Staff, San Jose State University

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
Regal

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience Elementary School (K-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)

10:45am PDT

Reimagining Geometry Through Design to Promote Empathy: Creating a Lantern With Math Modeling

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

Imperial

This session invites teachers to learn about integrating community-oriented learning in math classrooms through a sample geometry design-based lesson. Through a short presentation, participants will learn integrating human-centered design in math classrooms to support creative ways of learning, empathic awareness, and collaboration among students. Participants will experience design in a hands-on workshop to create a lantern with math modeling. Throughout this session, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their designing experience, hear stories from the lesson implementation, and discuss ideas for future ways of integrating math, design, and the community.

Speakers

Mayahuel Malik

Gloriana Gonzalez

Friday June 26, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
Imperial

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience High School (9-12), General Interest

11:15am PDT

Asset-Oriented Math Instruction: Shifting Teacher Mindsets for Emergent Bilingual Success

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT

Terrace AB

This session explores how high school math teachers shifted from deficit to asset-based positioning of emergent bilinguals (EBs) through a year-long collaborative professional development focused on mathematical modeling. Using positioning theory as an analytical lens, we examine how classroom discourse shapes student agency and access to mathematics. Participants will engage in interactive activities, including sorting excerpts and reflective discussions, to analyze how language and context influence perceptions of EBs’ capabilities. We share findings from seven teachers working with linguistically diverse students and offer actionable strategies for fostering equity and transforming institutional structures in mathematics education.

Speakers

Jiyeong Yi

Associate Professor, Iowa State University

Shristi Shrestha

Graduate Student, Iowa State University

PhD student in the Human Computer Interaction program at Iowa State University. I have been doing research about AI in math education.

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Terrace AB

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

Strand Beliefs & Structures
Audience High School (9-12), General Interest

11:15am PDT

Humanizing the First Years of Teaching: Creating Community to Support Equitable Teaching

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT

Royal A

Being a new teacher is exciting and challenging. How can new teachers, especially those committed to teaching in equitable and humanizing ways, be supported to thrive (instead of just survive)? Join us as we share how one group of new teachers and their former math education professor supported each other through critical friendship in a monthly community of practice. What are early-career teachers grappling with as they strive to teach in equitable ways? How can you support early career teachers? Come find out and connect with us!

Speakers

Katie Rupe

Amelia Ard

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Royal A

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

Strand Beliefs & Structures
Audience General Interest

11:15am PDT

Make it Meaningful: Adapting Curriculum for Social Justice

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT

Terrace CD

Do you want to practice creating or adapting social justice oriented math tasks and curriculum? Do you want students to see how math can be connected to topics outside their textbooks?
In this session, we will be discussing how to adapt or enhance a provided curriculum and adjust or add onto provided problems withing a curriculum through a lens of meaningfulness and social justice. Whether you’re beginning your journey or have experience and are looking for new perspectives, you’ll leave with implementable strategies and steps for the upcoming school year.

Speakers

Daniel Zarasua

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Terrace CD

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience High School (9-12)

11:15am PDT

Mathematics in Our Lived Experiences: Sharing Stories to Broaden Perceptions and Transform Learning

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT

Royal CDEF

Many people feel unwelcome in mathematics – a regrettable, but not inevitable, circumstance. In this session, I will share the goals and videos from a project documenting adults’ lived experiences of mathematics. In these videos, participants share how they engage in mathematics in their lives and how these experiences relate – or do not easily relate – to their memories of school “mathematics”. Many participants are members of historically marginalized groups. Session attendees will be invited to reflect on their own experiences and to consider how these stories could help to catalyze collaborative and sustained work to center humanity in school mathematics.

Speakers

Kim Yoak

Mathematics specialist, Summit Mathematics Education Enterprises

I have recently founded the Coalition for Mathematics for Human Flourishing! We will share people's lived experiences of mathematics (in all its forms) and work with individuals, schools, and systems to transform school mathematics experiences for young people. @CMathsHuman on... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Royal CDEF

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

Strand Beliefs & Structures
Audience General Interest, Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), College

11:15am PDT

Supporting Elementary Teacher Candidates to Embrace Torres’ Rights of the Learner in Light of Hyper-Scripted Curriculum Mandates

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT

Royal B

In an era of increasing legislative interference and political attacks on teachers’ autonomy, this session examines the notion of trust, love, and defiance through the lens of Torres’ Rights of the Learner (RotL) framework and Gutiérrez’s Rehumanizing Framework. We will explore how teacher candidates can utilize these frameworks to retain autonomy as professionals who center student experiences and identities and foster autonomous learners, even under the demands of a hyper-scripted, mandated curricula.

Speakers

Crystal Kalinec-Craig

Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Royal B

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience General Interest, College

1:00pm PDT

Being Muslim in Math Education Spaces

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT

Royal A

What can we learn from historically marginalized math practitioners from an intersectional perspective? How do we translate these findings to the daily math classroom? A 2022 Institute for Social Policy and Understanding poll reported that Muslims experience higher levels of religious discrimination than any other religious groups and that 68% have experienced Islamophobia with higher rates for American-born young adults and women (~80%). In this dynamic, collaborative workshop, participants will apply statistics on Islamophobia through a humanizing and qualitative orientation by engaging in conversation and activities together from a culturally responsive lens. The presenters, both experienced classroom and Muslim teachers, will help participants make connections on how to best support and include Muslim students in humanizing and inclusive pedagogical praxis.

Speakers

Sara Rezvi

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Royal A

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Systems & Accountability
Audience General Interest, Elementary School (K-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)

1:00pm PDT

Modeling Justice: Using Mathematics to Explore and Challenge Real-World Inequities

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT

Imperial

How can students use mathematical modeling to reveal systems of power and privilege? This session invites participants to explore justice-centered modeling tasks on issues such as gerrymandering, housing, and climate change. Using authentic district maps and data, participants will analyze how mathematics can expose and challenge unfair voting boundaries. Grounded in critical mathematics education, the session highlights how modeling can cultivate students’ civic reasoning, agency, and ethical awareness. Participants will gain practical frameworks for designing learning experiences that position mathematics as a tool for understanding and transforming social realities.

Speakers

Manjula Peter Joseph

Jeremiah Ruesch

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Imperial

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Curriculum & Instruction
Audience General Interest

1:00pm PDT

Rooting Mathematics in Care: Latine Teachers Rehumanizing High School Classrooms

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT

Terrace AB

This session is led by three Latine high school mathematics teachers who reimagine care as central to rooting mathematics in humanity. Co-authored with a mathematics education researcher who formerly taught high school mathematics, the session bridges classroom practice and research to highlight teachers’ lived expertise. Guided by Keeling’s (2014) framing of an ethic of care and Gutiérrez’s (2018) call to rehumanize mathematics, we share how care manifests through language, relational trust, and student brilliance. Using pláticas (Fierros & Delgado Bernal, 2016), participants will collectively reflect on how care disrupts deficit framings and cultivates belonging and shared humanity in mathematics spaces.

Speakers

Fabian Gutierrez Vidal

Nicolette Capriles

Tania Pelayo

Sabrina Zarza

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Terrace AB

Breakout Session, Cultivating

Strand Beliefs & Structures
Audience Preschool/Early Childhood, Middle School (6-8), Elementary School (K-5), High School (9-12), College, General Interest

1:00pm PDT

Rewriting stories: Identity work as pathways to belonging and empowerment for students-and ourselves

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT

Royal B

What stories do we and our PK-12 students tell about who belongs in mathematics? Let’s break the mold for our students and for ourselves! In this interactive workshop, we will uncover our own math identities so we can help our students uncover theirs, and explore how unproductive beliefs and implicit biases shape pedagogy and assessment. Together, we’ll reimagine teaching practices that center belonging, disrupt inequities, and empower all learners to thrive in mathematics in PK-12 classrooms.

Speakers

Sean Nank

California State University San Marcos

Sean Nank, PhD, received the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). Sean is a Distinguished Teacher in Residence and adjunct professor at California State University San Marcos, a full professor at American College of Education, and works... Read More →

Monique Pollitt

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Royal B

Breakout Session, Collaborating

Strand Beliefs & Structures
Audience General Interest

1:00pm PDT

TODOS Antiracist Mathematics Book Club: Expanding our Circle to Parents, Caregivers, & Communities

Friday June 26, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT

Regal

The TODOS Antiracist Mathematics Education Book Club will host its final session at the TODOS Conference, centering on Section 2: Parents & Caregivers and Section 5: Community Members from Antiracist Mathematics Education: Stories of Acknowledgment, Action, and Accountability. Participants (both in-person and virtually) will reflect on how partnerships with families and communities shape equitable mathematics learning opportunities, share insights from their own contexts, and consider actions that extend beyond classrooms. This session invites collaborative dialogue focused on sustaining antiracist practices through meaningful engagement with families and communities while learning from each other.

Speakers