Math Education and Social Justice Conference 2016

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Please contact Carolee Coehn Hurtado at Koehn@gseis.ucla.edu

You may do same day registration on-site at the conference.
The seventh Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on Math Education and Social Justice will take place in San Francisco. Educators, parents, activists, community members and youth are invited to participate in our three-day conference exploring the connections between mathematics education and social justice. We will explore questions, challenges and opportunities to work toward social justice through math education.

More details on the sliding scale
All conference participants will have the same level of access to workshops and conference-related events regardless of how much they contribute on the sliding scale. Your contributions help offset the costs of the conference and help to sustain future conferences. If you cannot contribute a registration amount to the conference, you may register free of charge; we strive to stay accessible to anyone interested.

January 15th-17th, 2016

Schedule

• Friday: Classroom visits, Networking Event
• Saturday: Workshops, Keynote Speaker, Networking/Organizing sessions
• Sunday: Workshops, Networking, Discussions

Goals of the conference

• Bring together educators, researchers, parents, activists, and students to collectively discuss social justice and math education
• Foster new and innovative partnerships and collaborations
• Create a space to share resources, lesson plans, best practices, and other classroom materials
• Develop structures for ongoing discussion and working groups about math and social justice
• Organize a national voice in the ongoing debate over math education reform
• Plan actions, advocacy, future meetings, etc.