Darryl Yong

Darryl Yong, PhD, McGregor-Girand Chair in STEM Equity Innovation and Research and Professor of Mathematics, focuses his research on secondary and tertiary mathematics education. He is primarily interested in how secondary-school mathematics teachers deepen their content knowledge for teaching, gain leadership skills and learn about equitable and ambitious teaching strategies, particularly through peer communities. He serves on the steering committee for Math for America Los Angeles, an organization that he helped to start in 2007, and has worked closely with the Teacher Leadership Program of the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute since 2003. Yong is currently a member of a research team, Project TAU (Teaching Amidst Uncertainty), with Ilana Horn, Grette Garner and Ben Rydal Shapiro.