Teachers are the primary speakers at MEAD, engaging colleagues in professional conversations. Effective sessions share great examples of an idea, strategy, or understanding that you are using in your classroom and have found success with. 

This year, the MEAD Conference will be HYBRID, with both in-person and online components. This means that participants can attend either in-person or online through Zoom.

For 20 years, MEAD has welcomed 1000s of teachers to Arizona's largest mathematics education event. With 100s of sessions, door prizes, and a lovely keynote luncheon, MEAD both engages and appreciates educators.

Cathery Yeh

Dr. Cathery Yeh has led Universal Design for Learning (UDL) implementation globally, working with educators in diverse settings, including urban, inclusive, self-contained special education, and dual-language classrooms. As an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, she examines how culturally responsive pedagogies and Universal Design for Learning can cultivate inclusive classrooms that embrace and leverage students’ multidimensional identities, specifically disability, class, gender, race, and language. Cathery served on the task force and as a writer for Catalyzing Change, the official policy document released by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), which helped shape the revision of Math Frameworks across the country. She is also the author of Reimagining the Mathematics Classroom and Upper Elementary Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice, along with over 80 publications in research and practitioner journals on effective mathematics teaching. Her favorite place is the mathematics classroom, where she enjoys learning alongside teachers, students, and families.