Fawn Nguyen teaches math at Mesa Union Junior High in southern California. She started out as a science teacher for 14 years and has been teaching math for the last 12 years. In 2014 Fawn was awarded Ventura County Mathematics Teacher of the Year. She is part of the UC-Santa Barbara Mathematics Project leadership team that presents at workshops and retreats for math teachers, coaches, and administrators in the Tri-County area. She is a co-founder of the Thousand Oaks Math Teachers’ Circle. In an effort to share and learn from other math teachers, Fawn blogs at Finding Ways. She also started VisualPatterns.org to help students develop algebraic thinking. Her newest site, between2numbers.com, is geared toward learning fun facts through ratios and proportional reasoning. When she can pull herself away from her passion and love of all things mathy, Fawn likes to read and work in her garden.
Ed is a Program Trainer for Brown University Computer Science departments' Bootstrap: Algebra curriculum. He also is the Bootstrap Social Media Outreach Coordinator. He has 13 years of experience as a high school math & computer science teacher and is a huge advocate for classroom redesign, especially rethinking the learning space in the math classroom. He’s a Level 2 Google Educator, a CUE Innovative Educator, as well as a LEC Online/Blended Instructor. He's presented at numerous CVCUE, Fall CUE, National CUE, Google Summits, and CUE Rockstar Teacher Camps. He currently serves on the board of directors for Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO.org) and CVCUE(the Central Valley CUE affiliate). Ed's mission is to change fixed mindsets about math, computer science, and technology and to empower students and teachers with a growth mindset in these areas.
Carnegie Learning Specialist
Math Instructional Coach