Refreshing and attainable! Practical
Coaching / Consulting / One-On-One
Compassionate Math for Businesses
Dr. Geillan Aly
is a mathematics educator and former award winning Assistant Professor who received her PhD in Teaching and Teacher Education and a Master’s in Mathematics from the University of Arizona.
Her research focuses on the emotional side of learning mathematics and includes how computer-centered learning has affected students’ abilities to control their learning environment and how meditation may reduce mathematics anxiety.
Dr. Aly has been teaching at the university level for over ten years and, without sacrificing rigor, brings a personalized math learning experience to the classroom through active learning methods and by centering students’ emotional well-being. She is very familiar with the Common Core Standards and has experience teaching mathematics to Middle and High School students.
Underlying all of Dr. Aly’s teaching and research is a dedication to diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice in mathematics education. She enjoys traveling, seeing live music, and is an avid chef. Geillan is also a wife and mother of a beautiful boy. They live near Hartford, CT.
What people are saying
Very insightful workshop to help us think about how (in)equity can be present in the classroom
The session with Geillan facilitates a fresh start on how we should start building an inquiry learning classroom to promote equity.
Very inspirational and insightful. This session helped me understand and confront my mathematical anxiety and the factors affecting my math identity. I hope to use these strategies in my own future learning and as a maths educator. The session was very engaging and thought provoking and challenged my assumptions about math and what makes a maths person. I especially enjoyed writing the love letter to myself about my math experience and confronting math problems in the future while managing my math anxiety.
Applicable to daily teaching and realistic with helping students persevere. Geillan was approachable, easy to talk to, and more than willing to offer suggestions and advice!
Good introduction to why creating a compassionate classroom is valuable and effective as a teaching practice.
Honestly, I am a science major and this class really merged well with the Chemistry aspects of formulas. I really enjoyed the valuable information presented today. How Geillan presented the information was helping be be confident in my response rather than making me feel like I did not know how to respond. I respect that very much her way of teaching and development.
Great speaker! Very knowledgeable and passionate about her work.
Real, relevant, and useful!
One of the more enjoyable workshops I’ve attended in years.
You a doing a service to the inner children in us all who never knew they could be good enough so thank you
Geillan was very friendly and approachable. It was easy to open up about math struggles. Thank you!!
If I had to [describe] this session to a friend or colleague I would tell them that we are all capable of do good in math and even with all the barriers that we might encounter, we can always become successful.
It was great! Exactly what I needed at this point in the semester.
Inspiring. Realistic. I love that she spoke about how trauma can happen and specifically highlighted that BIOOC and LGBTQI+ persons are affected by it. It's refreshing and helpful to be seen like that at this predominantly white institution.
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