Save the Date for MEAD 2025! More information coming soon!
The Mathematics Educator Appreciation Day Conference (MEAD) is Arizona's largest mathematics education event!
Please join us for the 21st annual MEAD Conference!
MEAD 2025 will take place on Saturday, January 25th, with over 150 sessions featuring Keynote Speaker, Elham Kazemi, a leader in promoting ambitious mathematics instruction and school-wide professional learning.
Thanks to a partnership with the Arizona Department of Education, registration is FREE for all Arizona teachers and administrators, and $125 for non-Arizona educators.
REGISTRATION COMING NOVEMBER 2024
Call for Proposals
The CRR is now accepting proposals for MEAD 2025. Please consider presenting or co-presenting with colleagues. All presenters attend for free, even if not from Arizona.
Please review the Call for Proposals and submit your proposal by the deadline of MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2024.
The conference consists of 3 session blocks running 8 AM - 12 PM, followed by the Keynote Luncheon. A professional development certificate will be provided for the sessions attended.
- MEAD is a HYBRID event with in-person and virtual options for registration
- In-person participants can enjoy breakfast while exploring the Exhibition Hall at Tucson High Magnet School.
- The Keynote Address will be live-streamed on the MEAD keynote webpage for those not able to attend the Keynote Luncheon at the UArizona Grand Ballroom.
Teachers
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.
Hybrid
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.
History
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.
2025 MEAD Keynote Speaker
Elham Kazemi
Elham Kazemi is a professor of mathematics education at the University of Washington. She studies children’s mathematical thinking and learning experiences in classrooms, the teacher’s role in facilitating discussions, and how teacher educators design and lead environments so that teachers learn from and with their students. One important theme throughout all this work is nurturing strong professional communities among teachers. Her research and partnership work has been informed by research on equity and justice in mathematics education, organizational learning, school reform, children’s mathematical thinking and classroom practice.
Recent books include Intentional Talk, coauthored with Allison Hintz, which focuses on leading productive discussions in mathematics; Choral Counting and Counting Collections, edited with Megan Franke and Angela Turrou, which describes two generative routines for student learning; and a new title Learning Together, co-authored with Jessica Calabrese, Teresa Lind, Becca Lewis, Alison Resnick and Lynsey Gibbons, which explains the work that teachers, coaches, and principals can do together to make schools powerful places for student and teacher learning.
Thank you to our MEAD Sponsors and Exhibitors!
For more information about our Sponsors, click on their icon to be redirected to their webpage!
If you'd like to become a MEAD Sponsor or attend MEAD as an exhibitor,
please email mkperkin@arizona.edu