I'm so excited to present at Cal-TASH for the first time! Can't wait to be in the company of so many disability justice advocates. I'm especially excited for the Crip Camp watch party and closing keynote!! I would love to connect with anyone else who will be there!

That's all I've got for you tonight, #ElemMathChat! Thanks so much for engaging with me! And thank you so much @mnmmath.bsky.social for this opportunity! ❤️❤️❤️

A8: Every classroom would look different because every classroom is serving different people. The room would be truly reflective of the students in it, in all possible ways. #ElemMathChat

A7: Sometimes students with disabilities really exist on the margins of math class, pulled out and given cold, clinical worksheets to help "fill gaps" instead of being allowed to do rich meaningful tasks. Viewing math as a human right would mean understanding that students with disabilities ALSO

A6: Open ended tasks that invite multiple strategies and perspectives. Engaging students authentically in each other's ideas. Honoring and valuing a wide variety of participation. Validating and celebrating student thinking! #ElemMathChat

A5: Math belonging means all students are celebrated and highlighted for their brilliance, which first means that we as teachers take the time to ensure we are looking at all students in ways that lets their understanding show. We can't be looking for the wrong things! #ElemMathChat

A4: Systemic denial of students' human right to math might look like not allowing students to engage in math that matters or that is joyful. Rote memorization as a students' sole math engagement. Math that doesn't build or connect. And it's our responsibility to push back #ElemMathChat

A3: To me, meaningful math is math that students can see as connected and generative- math that helps them understand relationships and bigger mathematical concepts in ways that have come from THEM not US #ElemMathCHat

A2: I think doing math is one of the most human endeavors there is. And I don't mean carrying the 1! I mean the math that we engage in on a daily basis, that is magical and can be so joyful. I think being able to see that math is magical and joyful is a human right that we all deserve #ElemMathChat

A1. I value freedom and joy. I think my students would say they value choice, autonomy, and the chance to collaborate #ElemMathChat

Q0 So excited for our chat tonight! I'm joining from California and happy our weather is cooling off a bit #ElemMathChat

Hi everyone! So happy to be here today! #ElemMathChat

The questions for tomorrow's #ElemMathChat have been written, rewritten, edited and revised, polished, scrapped, and written again! Looking forward to an amazing conversation tomorrow at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central/6pm Pacific time!

Really looking forward to this! Hope you'll join us!

So excited for this! I’ve been a longtime lurker on #ElemMathChat and I’m thrilled to lead a chat of my own! A real “pinch me” moment 🥹❤️

Hi all! I'd love to be able to attend NCSM this year but the financial landscape is not supporting that. What creative funding sources might I be overlooking? Has anyone ever fundraised for conference fees/hotels/flights?

This partnership was so fun-so refreshing to work with families again! Thank you so much @themathcollective.bsky.social for your support with making it happen and keeping it running so smoothly!

This weekend was one for the books- UCLA Math Project hosted our 2025 Conference & it was such a meaningful event. Thank you to our incredible presenters for sessions that were thought-provoking and affirming & thank you to all of our participants who brought enthusiasm and dedication to this work.

We are so excited to welcome you today to our UCLA CGI 2025 Regional Conference! Lots of amazing sessions and lots of fun CGI Community activities planned! Plus Dr. Megan Franke as keynote and tacos for dinner. See you soon!

For those of you who make sure to have live captions when you are presenting - what's available out there besides the feature in Google slides? I learned yesterday that Google slides isn't very accent-friendly so looking for something that might be better. @mathematize4all.bsky.social #disability

Our UCLA CGI team had so much fun yesterday at Hancock Park Elem leading activities for parents and kids to engage in math and literacy ideas together! Excited to go back for our next 5 sessions! We've got a great series put together - let me know if you know a school that might be interested too!

If you are local to LA or feel like taking a nice early May trip, we'd love to see you at UCLA Math Project's regional #CGIConference! We have an amazing speaker lineup including Dr. Franke as our keynote, and I am taking the lead to ensure our conference is #accessible to all #IteachMath

Today, we honor the legacy of Judy Heumann, widely recognized as one of the founding leaders of the disability rights movement in the United States. She remained determined in her fight for disability justice, rights, and inclusion.

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

The #Coelho Center at #LMU put on a stellar conference today! I am so grateful to have been included. (And to be called a Disability Rights Professional- wow!)

Has anyone started doing presentations in Canva? Did you know they have a feature that will check the #accessibility of your slides? Just go File > Accessibility and you can check your graphics and layouts for accessibility. It will even remind you about writing alt text for images and videos!

I am very excited and honored to join #LMU's #Coelho Center for #Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation's conference this Friday! I'll be on a panel to talk about the intersection of Disability Justice and math education. If you're in LA on Friday come join us! #ITeachMath #inclusion

Interested in CGI (Cognitively Guided Instruction)? Come to the CGI Regional Conference in Los Angeles, May 2-3 centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/cgi-2025-reg...

So excited to “introduce” you all to some super cool & brilliant student mathematicians with disabilities in this session! Can’t wait to marvel at their thinking together! #iteachmath #disability #disabilityjustice

I’m very excited to complete my Math Triple Crown next month at CMC-Central! I’ve always wanted to present at all three regional CMCs. See you there?

Thoughts after a long week in classrooms - a big old thread. All of my teaching career I spent in inclusive settings. I have been in schools where full inclusion worked beautifully. I believe in it fully. I believe that all students deserve the same opportunity to be in community together.

Call for the expertise of special educators in this moment!

It feels like my whole city is on fire, and this is the most terrifying wind I’ve ever experienced. We are safe and sound but PLEASE, if you’re in an evacuation zone, GO NOW. Get your pets, prescriptions, papers, and photos and HIT THE ROAD

2024 list - geeking-by.net/disabled-and... Add a book or comic with disabled/Neurodivergent rep or by a disabled/ND author to the 2025 spreadsheet - docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 3/3

Spent the afternoon with friends at the Balloon Museum downtown. A lot of good opportunities for estimating! We think we saw at least 40,000 balloons total and maybe 200,000 balls in the VERY giant ball pit? Is that too many? No real way to find out makes it even more fun #ITeachMath #mtbos

Are you following @themathcollective.bsky.social yet? If not you most certainly should be!