Creating Balance Conference Updates

Conference SWAG, Friday Night Networking Event and Community Engagement Opportunities

Sign Up for Friday Community Engagements
The critical re-envisioning of STEM education through the lens of culture and place requires a relationship with the community. We selected the following community engagements in order to provide the opportunity to interact with the past, present, and future of this place. These experiences highlight our relationships with people and place that are on-going and reciprocal.  

Space is still available for Friday Community Engagements, you can review the descriptions here. Register for community engagements here

Networking Evening
Join the CBUW conference committee and local community members for our Conference Welcome and Networking Event! Meet fellow conference participants, build new personal and professional connections while learning about and experiencing the power of Hawaiian music as a tool for advocacy and activism on this historical day making the 127th anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Conference SWAG
In an effort to be more sustainable, this year’s conference logo will be screen printed onsite.  You can choose to buy a navy blue unisex t-shirt or green reusable bag from the conference organizers or you can be more sustainable by bringing your own T-shirt or item. Your item needs to be fabric and have 10×10 inches of open space to fit the logo. Screen Printing will be open during the Friday Welcome Event and Saturday Morning Registration. Pre-Order here and ensure your size preference is available. 

  • Blue T-Shirt $12
  • Green Cotton Reusable Bag $10
  • Screen printing your own item $5



In collaboration with CBUW, Aupuni Palapala Presents Song and Stories of Survivance on the Anniversary of the Overthrow. 
17 January 2020
4:30- 5:30 – ʻOnipaʻa i ke Aloha ʻĀina
6:00- 8:00  Mele Aloha ʻĀina – ʻOhana Osorio & networking activities
@ Waiwai Collective 1100 University Ave #100, Honolulu, HI 96826

Please RSVP here  for a general headcount.

 

Keynote Speaker Dr. Rosie ʻAnolani Alegado

Dr. Rosie ʻAnolani Alegado was born and raised in Kaʻiwiʻula Oʻahu and lives with her family in Kahaluʻu. She is an Associate Professor of Oceanography and Sea Grant where she is Director for the Center of Excellence in Integrated Knowledge Systems. Rosie is also director of the SOEST Maile Mentoring Bridge Program and member of the Center for Microbial Oceanography. A student of Papakū Makawalu and kaulana mahina, Rosie incorporates these practices in reconstructing historical climate phenomena from nūpepa Hawaiʻi. In partnership with Paepae o Heʻeia, her group has tracked the influence of restoration, storms and multi-annual climate patterns on the health of Heʻeia Fishpond over the last decade. Together with the non-profit Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo and Hawai’i Sea Grant, she is involved in developing kūlana noiʻi, a process wherein researchers build and sustain equitable partnerships with community. Since 2018 she has served on the City & County of Honolulu Climate Change Commission.

Current list of conference workshops for 2020

Thank you to all of the folks who sent it workshop proposals.  We received more than 70 proposals and unfortunately we could not accept all of workshops this year (although we would love to one day do that).  After reviewing the workshop proposals using the workshop rubric, we have selected the workshops for the conference.  Facilitators have been contacted by email.  Look here for the current list of workshops that will be at the conference!  https://creatingbalanceconference.org/?page_id=2159

Request for Proposals

Request for Proposals
We are pleased to announce that the 2020 Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on Math Education and Social Justice will be held in at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education in Honolulu, HI January 17th-19th, 2020. Mark your calendars, book your travel, and we will see you at the conference!

Request for Workshop Proposals:
Proposal SUMMARY due June 21, 2019
Proposal APPLICATION due July 12, 2019

Please submit your SUMMARY and APPLICATION.

Sample Proposal | RFP Rubric

2020 Conference Site and Theme

2020 Conference in Honolulu, HI

We are pleased to announce that the 2020 Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on Math Education and Social Justice will be held in at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education in Honolulu, HI January 17th-19th, 2020. Mark your calendars, book your travel, and we will see you at the conference!

 

Conference Theme:

Akeakamai: Critical Re-envisioning of STEM Education Through the Lens of Culture and Place
STEM has a rich history in education with multiple iterations and the addition or subtraction of letters from the acronym. Each letter represents a particular way of empowering or disempowering systems of knowledge, peoples, and places.  At the United States federal level, STEM education is driven primarily by industry and military needs, and content is framed in an exclusively western lens. However, as states and local communities seek ever increasing needs to address issues of climate change, poverty, housing and other issues of equity and access, the question of “whose knowledge matters” has been brought to question and spun the inclusion of “A” in STEM where the “A” represents “art”, “‘āina”, “ancestral” or perhaps “agriculture” (STEAM). An extra “M” has been added for “making” (STEAMM). An S2 has been added for “Social Sciences and Sense of Place” (STEMS2). The mathematics of STEM has been replaced with ethnomathematics. All of these variations challenge the normative STEM narrative and provide grounds for the exploration of the roles place, culture, and indigeneity play in real world problem solving.

Keynote Speaker 2014: Jane Margolis

We are excited to announce our keynote speaker for this year’s 6th annual Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on Mathematics Education and Social Justice.  Dr. Jane Margolis is a Senior Researcher at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.  Her research focuses on equity in education and how fields become segregated. She is the lead author of two award-winning books about how these issues are manifested in computer science education:  Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (MIT Press, 2002) and Stuck in the Shallow End:  Education Race, and Computing (MIT Press, 2008).

 This year’s conference theme focuses on equity in technology access as it relates to mathematics education.  The past five conferences have addressed mathematics education and social justice, and we broaden our lens this year to explore the interaction of social justice and mathematics education, computer science education, and access to innovative technological tools.  As current education initiatives turn to technology (e.g. online courses, individual tablet/iPad use in the classroom, and internet tutors) the danger of further increasing existing inequities looms large.  Dr. Margolis’s collaborative work with researchers, teachers, and students is timely and critical to our current education landscape.