Join Us at at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) 2026 Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver, CO

Join Haiwen Chu and Monique Evans at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for the 2025 Annual Meeting & Exposition, October 28–31, 2026, in Denver, Colorado.  

This year’s NCTM conference theme is “Mathematics for a Changing World.”  

Thursday, October 29  

Burst Session: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Quality Interactions: Structured Sorting Tasks 

Time: 4:30–5 p.m.    

Location: Colorado Convention Center / 601 

Presenter: Monique Evans (WestEd) 

Multilingual Learners deserve and require opportunities to engage with rigorous math. Sorting tasks, with a variety of goals (including labeling, ordering, and matching), offer structure and purposeful grouping that engage Multilingual Learners in rich discourse. In this session, participants will experience a sorting task and analyze how intentional design focused on structure, grouping, and language can support access to rigorous mathematics. 

Friday, October 30  

Research Session: Broadening Participation 

Presentation: Activity Design to Broaden Participation for Multilingual Learners: Applying Basic Research 

Time: 8–9 a.m.    

Location: Colorado Convention Center / Bluebird Ball 3D 

Presenters: Haiwen Chu (WestEd) and Monique Evans (WestEd) 

Learn how the structure of activities increases Multilingual Learner participation in discourse. Apply ideas about distributing information to amplify the language and learning opportunities of tasks. Hear students talk about their ideas in real time with one another as they develop language.