TODOS 2026 Conference

Join us for affinity group conversations before the TODOS Mathematics for All conference begins! These groups are designed to bring educators together to connect, share experiences, and build solidarity around shared identities, interests, and goals. Whether you're looking to reflect on your teaching practices, build community, or discuss ways to advance equity in your area of mathematics education, there's a space for you. Final groups will be determined as the event approaches based on interest and space availability.

This interactive session shares frameworks and activities from two parent–teacher–community partnership programs in Texas and Tennessee, both developed to catalyze change toward racial justice in elementary and secondary mathematics. We will share lessons learned from each program, highlighting how we shifted from parents attending events to parent-facilitated mathematics workshops, where parents determine the focus, lead decisions, and co-lead sessions with others. The discussion will focus on how relational trust was intentionally built (and what supported its development) and how workshop and school structures center families as co-learners and co-leaders, ensuring their expertise guides decision-making.

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.

Based on an activity from a youth participatory action research (YPAR) collaboration, we invite participants to engage in mixed-media arts creation that allows for reflection on relationships, community, and our roles to support “rooting mathematics in humanity”. Using a set of prompts and individually/collectively, participants will be invited to create individual art pieces (tessarae) to become part of a larger wall-sized public community mosaic. Using sticky notes and a pair-share, participants will consider how expressing needs, desires and hopes (rather than ‘norms) as individuals and as a community might spur reimagining and action toward rooting mathematics in humanity.

In this hands-on session, educators will make reflective zines as a creative way to think about their math teaching practices. With collage materials, folded paper, and prompts, we’ll reflect on the past school year and dream forward into the next. Open to early childhood through secondary educators and preservice teachers, this session invites us to challenge oppressive narratives, honor our journeys, and imagine what it means to root mathematics in humanity. As a cohort of Chicago-based mathematics public school teachers and academics, we hope to offer insights in our particular lived experiences during the 25-26 school year as one of the most targeted places in the nation by ICE and the federal government. We particularly invite trans and queer teachers, teachers of color, and disabled teachers and those who occupy the margins to consider coming to this space.

In this interactive session participants will learn about Social Justice Mathematics considering how to attend to students’ emotions and well-being. The three women of Color facilitators collaborated on a Social Justice Mathematics project and include a mathematics teacher educator, a mathematics coach and doctoral student, and a mathematics middle school teacher and doctoral student. Participants will engage with a Social Justice Mathematics task in small groups, learn about SJM frameworks and resources, and then join grade band specific groups to discuss possible SJM tasks for their specific contexts. Participants will receive a Google Drive folder of sample tasks and resources.

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.

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.

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.