About Your Instructor – Rachel Mane

Uniquely Qualified Instructor

RACHEL MANE is a highly experienced secondary math educator and a frequent presenter at local, state and national seminars, often speaking on best ways to use technology to increase student engagement in the math classroom. Rachel is passionate about equipping fellow secondary math teachers with innovative, practical tools and ideas they can immediately use in their classrooms. Rachel is also passionate about helping educators discover the joy of learning mathematics that can happen when students use Desmos for exploration and creation. Rachel is often publishing blogs and videos on technology and high yield classroom strategies. She is also the author of Making Best Use of DESMOS to Strengthen Your MATH Instruction, the extensive digital resource handbook each participant will receive at the seminar. Join Rachel for an outstanding day full of specific ways you can get the most out of Desmos to strengthen your grades 6-12 math instruction.

What Your Colleagues Say About Your Presenter

"This is the type of seminar that is worth every penny - and all the time in the world to attend. So much fantastic information and such a great presenter. I rarely give ALL perfect scores on surveys, but this was totally amazing. Very organized and Rachel was very helpful and patient."
- Melanie Carter, Mathematics Teacher

"Rachel was energetic and passionate teaching us about DESMOS. We could sense she loves this platform. The session was very informative and it was a fascinating tour to the world of DESMOS. I'm excited to use these tools introduced today in my future classes."
- Akifumi Iwahashi, Faculty of Mathematics/Director of Academic Logistics

"I found this really valuable! I'm excited to bring the things I learned back to my department."
- Robin Bowman, Math Teacher

"I had previously used DESMOS activities, but now I can see how to put the features into creating my own activities."
- Meghan Mattison, Math Teacher