Author: Sofia Tancredi

Balance Board Math

Balance Board Math (BBM) aims to foster new forms of inclusive math pedagogy by incorporating learner’s experiences of balance. Learners rock on a wooden balance board to explore a range of mathematical concepts including functions, negative numbers and absolute value.

The Need for SpEED: Reimagining Accessibility Through Special Education Embodied Design

Sofia Tancredi and Rachel Chen are doctoral students in the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Dr. Christina Krause is a postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at UC Berkeley and…

Special Education Embodied Design (SpEED)

Special Education Embodied Design (SpEED) sets out to develop guiding principles for building and running embodied design for special education students’ learning of mathematics.

Sofia Tancredi

I am interested in sensory regulation, movement and learning, embodied cognition, sensory dimensions of autism and ADHD, holistic education…

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