Tonya Bartell

Tonya Gau Bartell is an associate professor of mathematics education in the College of Education at Michigan State University, where she also serves as associate director of elementary programs. She earned a BS in mathematics from St. Cloud State University, an MA in curriculum and instruction from the University of Minnesota, and a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on issues of culture, race, and power in mathematics teaching and learning, with particular attention to teachers’ development of mathematics pedagogy for social justice and to approaches that integrate children’s multiple mathematical knowledge bases, community, and cultural knowledge.

Bartell is a coauthor of Early Elementary Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (Corwin Mathematics Series) and an editor of Toward Equity and Social Justice in Mathematics Education (Springer). She has served as a coeditor of the Journal of Teacher Education and has been involved with editorial work for other mathematics teacher education outlets. Before her university career, she taught high school mathematics, including work as a founding teacher in an alternative high school designed to support students labeled as not succeeding in traditional settings.