PACE Event

Middle Grades Math

Why Algebra Matters and How Technology Can Help

In this conference, come learn about how promising digital tools and resources are now available to help you strengthen teaching and learning in middle grades mathematics, and the policy changes that California must make to take advantage of these new opportunities. In this conference, policy leaders and experts in education technology will share and discuss what’s becoming possible with the proliferation of digital technologies in California schools.

Policy leaders and experts in education technology will share and discuss what's becoming possible with the proliferation of digital technologies in California schools. This conference is hosted by PACE, Silicon Valley Education Foundation, and NewSchools Venture Fund.

PACE thanks our sponsor S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation for making this conference possible.

Participants include:

Muhammed Chaudhry, President and CEO, Silicon Valley Education Foundation
Ted Mitchell, President and CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund
Charles Weis, Superintendent, Santa Clara County Office of Education
Phil Daro, Senior Fellow, Mathematics of America's Choice and Co-Director of Tools for Change, University of California at Berkeley
Neal Finkelstein, Senior Research Scientist, WestEd
Dan Meyer, Math Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator
Tony Monreal, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, Porterville Unified School District
Manny Barbara, Special Advisor to CEO, Silicon Valley Education Foundation
Courtney Cadwell, Teacher, Los Altos School District
John Danner, CEO, Rocketship Education
Matt Rosin, Senior Research Associate, EdSource
Tarkan Maner, President and CEO, Wyse Technology
Mike Cassidy, Columnist, San Jose Mercury News
Jeremy Roschelle, Director of the Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International
Caprice Young, President and CEO, EnCorps
Michael W. Kirst, President, California State Board of Education
Rick Miller, Superintendent, Riverside Unified School District
Pat Sabo, Teacher and California Teachers Association State Council Member