Save the date! October 23-24, 2025 at the Dayton Convention Center 2025 Proposal Information Coming Soon! OCTM's mission is to engage, inspire, and empower with mathematics. THE SKY'S THE LIMIT: Soaring to New Heights for 75 Years. The 2025 conference will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of OCTM empowering minds and hearts in mathematics. We look forward to seeing your vision of how to incorporate impactful mathematics and emotional growth in your session and how participants can share the joy and wonders of mathematics with diversified student populations. |
Featured Speakers
Vanessa Vakharia Known as the Lady Gaga of math education, Vanessa Vakharia is the founder and director of The Math Guru, a super cool boutique math & science tutoring studio in Toronto that's changing stereotypes about what math education looks like. She is also the host of the Math Therapy podcast, author of the Math Hacks Scholastic book series, author of the NEW bestselling book Math Therapy, and lead singer/keytarist for rock band Goodnight Sunrise. She has her Bachelor of Commerce, Teaching Degree, and Masters of Math Education. She appears regularly on national television and news outlets as an expert in math education and math positivity, and her #goals are to be Oprah-level-famous and to totally change math culture so that STEM is finally as cool as every single Taylor Swift song ever written. She failed Grade 11 math twice, which was the best thing that ever happened to her. |
Zarek Drozda Zarek Drozda is the Executive Director of Data Science 4 Everyone, a national initiative and coalition based at the University of Chicago. Zarek helped launch DS4E in 2019 with Freakonomics’ Steven Levitt, co-organizing a coalition of 3000+ education leaders to advance data science and data literacy education in K-12 schools across more than 25 states. Zarek also contributes to AI education policy with the Federation of American Scientists, and previously served for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), where he led research on emerging technology and advised the national COVID response, on assignment to a joint taskforce between the White House, Department of Education, and Center for Disease Control (CDC). |
Dr. Courtney Koestler Dr. Courtney Koestler is the director of the OHIO Center for Equity in Mathematics and Science and an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education in the Patton College of Education at Ohio University. Courtney is a proud, former public school teacher and served as a classroom teacher (grades 2, 4, 5, 7, 8) and a K-5 instructional coach in culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse communities. Courtney has been recognized for teaching, research, and outreach work that center on diversity, equity, and justice and has a number of publications including books for teachers and teacher educators and a series of children’s books that focus on connecting mathematics to critical issues in the real world. |
2025 OCTM Conference Leaders
Annual Conference Facilitator: Melissa Scoville (melissa.scoville@ohioctm.org)
Annual Conference Coordinator: Rachael Gorsuch (rachael.gorsuch@ohioctm.org)
General Co-Chairs: Margie Coleman and Corrinne Fischer (octmconference@ohioctm.org)
Program Committee Chair: Lindsay Gold (octmprogramcomm@ohioctm.org)