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A graphic on a green background with the text “I LOVE MY DAD” above a red heart and “Happy Father’s Day!” below it. Below the text, there’s an illustration of a large hand with a smaller hand shape nested inside the palm, symbolizing connection and care between parent and child.

Valentines Candy Hearts
Dream big
You shine
Hugs

Don’t give up hope
Keep hope alive
Star, moon, butterfly elements

Students and Teachers working around vertical non permanent surfaces.

Flier announcing 50 protest, 50 states, One day event on Feb 5

Picture of people siting around tables, and a speaker.
Meeting

Colorful background
Quote by Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.’

Modernizing Mathematics Summit at the Riverside County Office of Education. Keynote Dr Chris Emdin.
March 13-14,2025
https://events.rcoe.us/MMSummit

A light pink tea candle and the word Joy

Graphic depicting the Equity Transformation Cycle from Street Data by Safir and Dugan. At the center is ‘Street Data,’ surrounded by four quadrants: ‘Listen’ (Mindset of Radical Inclusion), ‘Uncover’ (Mindset of Curiosity), ‘Reimagine’ (Mindset of Creativity), and ‘Move’ (Mindset of Courage). The cycle emphasizes iterative reflection and action, connecting these mindsets as a framework for equity-focused transformation.

The word Peace and a lit purple tea candle

Cover of the book Como Agua para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Two women preparing food

Purple tea light candle
Word - Hope

Space for Silence

With so many things demanding our attention all day, we can become used to having our minds filled at all times. Even when we’re unwinding at home at the end of the day, we continue the pattern by consuming more distraction through music, videos, games. While these things are not inherently bad, their presences mean it’s rare for our minds to have nothing to do.

By putting all distraction aside, we can see what happens when we gift ourselves silence. And such silences are useful, not only for recharging, but also for creativity.

Try spending 10 minutes sitting quietly without distraction

Mindfulness Everywhere 2018

Cover of the book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

Colorful hummingbird image from Facebook

Spanish • English
Fotografia del dia
Photography of the day

Teaching mathematics is about facilitating mathematical development. You provide a rich environment, turn your classroom into a mathematical community, and support the development of each child -Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Envision: What would it look like/feel like to have an entire county culture built around the ideas you have read about?
What would that look like in your role and context?

You are awakening to the same country you fell asleep to.
The very same country.
Pull yourself together.
And,
when you see me, do not ask me
"What do we do now?
How do we get through the next four years?"
Some of my Ancestors dealt with at least 400 years of this under worse conditions.
Continue to do the good work.
Continue to build bridges not walls.
Continue to lead with compassion.
Continue the demanding work of liberation for all.
Continue to dismantle broken systems, large and small.
Continue to set the best example for the children.
Continue to be a vessel of nourishing joy.
Continue right where you are.
Right where you live into your days.
Do so in the name of The Creator who expects nothing less from each of us.
And if you are not "continuing"
ALL of the above, in community, partnership, collaboration?
What is it you have been doing?
What is it you are waiting for?

Repeat - student restates the idea if not everyone has heard.
Rephrase - A student restates a classmate's idea in their own words, often adding onto the initial idea in order to deepen their and the classes understanding of the idea.
Reword - A student restates the ideas at hand using mathematical language to increase both precision of the idea and the language with which it is being conveyed.
Record - The teacher publicly records the idea and/or specific language for students to reference.

Do you trust your team? What would it take for you to trust them?

I’ll give you part of the answer to that question: To trust your team as a whole, and to trust individual teammates, you have to trust yourself.

Do you trust yourself?

What would it take for you to trust yourself?

I’ll give you part of the answer to that question: To trust yourself you’ve got to have a level of competence and confidence, in this case, perhaps as a team leader. ”
Elena Aguilar

Sculpture by de la Torre Brothers.
bronze heart with cactus growing from it

Cinco de Mayo" known in Mexico as el Dia de la Batalla de Puebla, remembers the military victory of the poorly equipped mestizos over the French forces of Napoleon III in 1862.
The victory is a symbol of Mexican resistance to foreign domination.
The state of Puebla celebrates with parades, reenactments, and other festivities.
Cinco de Mayo

Pictures of participants of MaTHink

Transformational leaders have an understanding of complexities and layers of power
They reflect on and are intentional about how they use their power and facilitate the distribution of power
They act with courage when they need to interrupt power.

"In Order To Instigate Revolutionary Change, We Must Transform Human Consciousness."
Ian Malcolm
Jurassic World Dominion

Total Solar eclipse

TODOS: Mathematics for All

Save the Date for TODOS Virtual Leadership Institute 2024

Explore Avenues of Action for Anti-Racist Mathematics
Education!
This is a virtual event to be held Tuesday, June 4, 2024 and
Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT, 12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
Registration opening to 50 participants in February 2024.

Participants will
• Develop skills as justice-oriented leaders.
• Interrogate different roles we inhabit when engaging with
stakeholders.
• Connect with the writing, ideas, and calls to action in
TODOS’s newest publication, “Antiracist Mathematics
Education: Stories of Acknowledgment, Action, and
Accountability.”

Book AntiRacist Mathematics Education:Stories of Acknowledgment Action and Accountability

Traffic: Three lanes with cars
Image from Bloomberg.com

Background: Sunset behind cloudy sky over mountains. Snow covered ground, two side by side snow dusted evergreen trees with two swings hanging still between the trees.
Image via Facebook Natural beauty of the earth

It’s here new TODOS book Antiracist Mathematics Education: Stories of Acknowledgment, Action, and Accountability. With book cover

Cover of TODOS book
“Antiracist Mathematics Education: Stories of Acknowledgment, Action, and Accountability”
Images of student art work

Cuetlaxochitl arrangement with holly and candy cane
The word cuetlaxochitl

Joy
Background has a pink tea light candle and pink unfocused light dots

Tea light candle
Word:Peace
Purple filter

Because we have to be comfortable with our ratchetDemic self to allow space where our students may show their brilliance cover of the book rat Demic by Chris Emdin
Because we need to listen with a radical, mindset, uncover, curiosity, reimagined, creativity, and move with courage cover of the book street data by Dugan and Safir
Because we can control how we show up how we feel how we witness and heal together, cover of the book, coaching for equity by Elena Aguilar

Hope
Background image
Tea light candle
Purple ish glow
Light dots (sorry don’t know what to call them)

TODOS Live
Image: People on devices

Queer High School Students and the Teaching of Mathematics for Social Justice
Speaker: Weverton Ataide Pinheiro
Nov 30, 2023
4pm
#MathEquity
#TODOSlive

Monarch butterflies fluttering around trees

Thanksgiving Affirmations
4 different types of pumpkins each with an affirmation below it.

I am connected to everyone and everything
I invite gratitude into my life
I have the power to create change
I am in charge of how I show up

Honeycomb and bees

Día de los muertos. Vases with marigolds. Mariachi Skelton playing trumpet
Celebrate the memories

Día de los Muertos
Alter with ofrendas, marigolds, picture frames of ancestors

Día de los Muertos
Image of La Catrina

Wreath of flowers and sugar skulls
Words Día de los Muertos inside the wreath

$Fractal Responsibility The kind of change I can make in the world is directly related to the change I’m willing to make within myself. “ -adrienne maree brown Image of concentric circles in a fractal pattern$

Speech bubble with text:We’re looking for a Managing Director

More information: todos-math.org
Ask questions: president@todos-math-

$Hot air balloon with fractal patterns$

Annular solar eclipse

Hidden Hats.
Middle, Rear, and Front are standing in line. An eccentric millionaire challenges them to a game. Choosing randomly from three white hats, and two black hats, the millionaire will place a hat on each of the men. If a man guesses his hat color correctly, he receives one million dollars. If a man is wrong, he owes one million dollars. Rear, who can see two other hats, declines to give and answer. Middle who can see one other hat also declines to give and answer. Finally, Front, who cannot see any hats, states the color of his own hat? How?
Image three men wearing hats. Speech bubble says the color of my hat is?

An annular solar eclipse, captured by the solar optical telescope Hinode as the moon passed between it and the sun.

JAXA / NASA