Dan Meyer taught high school math to students who didn’t like high school math. He has advocated for better math instruction on CNN, Good Morning America, Everyday With Rachel Ray, and TED.com. He earned his doctorate from Stanford University in math education and is currently the dean of research at Desmos, where he explores the future of math, technology, and learning. Meyer has worked with teachers internationally and in all 50 United States and was named one of Tech & Learning’s 30 Leaders of the Future. To hear more from Meyer, check out his blog. 

Oscar Perales is passionate about utilizing technology in the classroom to empower the teaching and learning experience, while providing opportunities for discourse in a visually creative way. His expertise in educational technology, curriculum design, and instructional strategies focuses on helping students from diverse backgrounds and abilities find voice and agency of their thinking. Perales has over 10 years of experience in education as a teacher, instructional coach, and researcher.

Fawn Nguyen is a math teaching and learning specialist at Amplify Desmos Math. She was a math coach for a K-8 school district for three years. Before that, Nguyen was a middle school teacher for 30 years. Nguyen was the 2014 Ventura County Teacher of the Year. In 2009, she was awarded the Math Teacher Hero from Raytheon. In 2005, she was awarded the Sarah D. Barder Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

Nguyen blogs about her lessons and classroom teaching at fawnnguyen.com. She also authors three other websites for teachers: visualpatterns.org, between2numbers.com, and chewablemath.com.

Nguyen has been a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at math conferences throughout the country and recently in New Zealand. She has been a part of the UC-Santa Barbara Mathematics Project Leadership team since 2005.

In 2012, she co-founded the Math Teachers' Circle in Thousand Oaks, California. Nguyen served a three-year term as a committee member of NCTM's Professional Development Services Committee (PDSC) during 2015-2018.