TODOS 2026 Conference

10:45am PDT

Place-based Image Talks: Culturally Relevant Teaching through Community Connections and Opportunities for Critical Conversations

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

Regal

Are you looking for ways to incorporate students’ funds of knowledge into your teaching through culturally relevant pedagogy? Would you like to incorporate more mathematical discourse and student thinking in your elementary or middle school math lessons? Place-based Image Talks do both! In a Place-based Image Talk, teachers use a local image to pose mathematical questions, increasing entry points into the conversation and helping all students see themselves within mathematics. Place-based Image Talks can also be used to empower students by providing opportunities to use mathematics to understand and agentically connect with local community issues.

Speakers

[email protected]

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
Regal

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

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

10:45am PDT

TODOS Podcast (Invitation Only)

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

Terrace CD

TODOS Podcast Co-hosts Teddy Chao, Shari Kaku and Shakiyya Bland will be recording some exciting highlights, sound bites and reactions from the TODOS conference. (By invitation)

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 →

Shari Kaku

Shakiyya Bland

Director of Educational Partnerships, Just Equations

Thursday June 25, 2026 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
Terrace CD

Breakout Session, Catalyzing

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

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

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

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.

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