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Fawn Nguyen is the Director of STEM Initiatives at Amplify, following a 30-year career teaching middle school math and coaching educators. An award-winning educator and international speaker, she serves on the Mathematics Project Leadership Team at UC Santa Barbara and founded resources like visualpatterns.org and the Math Teachers’ Circle in Thousand Oaks. Fawn also writes a teaching blog on Substack and is known for her leadership in math education.
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January Feature:
Figuring Out Fluency Beyond Facts and Algorithms
Hosted by John SanGiovanni
Date: January 5th, 2025
Time: 7:00-8:00 PM EST
John SanGiovanni is a well-known math educator, author, and speaker. He has worked as a classroom teacher, elementary math supervisor, and curriculum leader, helping schools improve how they teach math. John is known for making math ideas easy to understand and for offering practical tips that teachers can use right away. He has written several popular books for teachers, including the popular "Figuring Out Fluency" series and Math in Practice. John speaks at conferences across the U.S., sharing his passion for helping all students build confidence and skill in math.
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Jennifer M. Bay-Williams is a mathematics teacher educator at the University of Louisville and a nationally recognized leader in K–12 math education. She’s the author of influential books like Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally and the Figuring Out Fluency series, and has served on the boards of NCTM and TODOS.
Bay-Williams continues to work directly with teachers and students, supporting math fluency and strong mathematical identities across the country.
Sue O’Connell has spent many years working in elementary schools as a teacher, math coach, reading specialist, and school improvement leader. She is a popular speaker and consultant who explains teaching strategies in a clear and practical way. Sue focuses on helping teachers build students’ math thinking skills. She is the lead author of the Math in Practice and Math by the Book series, as well as other books about teaching math to young children. She also created learning centers for hand2mind that help students practice math in meaningful ways. Sue often speaks at math conferences across the country.
