Angela Chan Turrou, Ph.D. is a senior researcher and teacher educator in the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies. Her work lives at the intersection of children’s mathematical thinking, classroom practice, and teacher learning across preschool and elementary spaces. Angela leverages purposeful instructional activities driven by children’s mathematical thinking to support teacher learning, collaboration, and generative growth. She is continually inspired by teachers who, on a daily basis, create space for children to drive the mathematical work and challenge the broader discourse of who does and does not get to be "good at math." 

Angela partners with such networks as the California Mathematics Project (CMP) and Development and Research in Early Math Education (DREME) to support the learning of teachers and teacher educators across California. She is co-author of The Young Child and Mathematics 3rd Ed. (NAEYC) and Young Children’s Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction in Early Childhood Education (Heinemann) and co-editor of Choral Counting and Counting Collections: Transforming the PreK-5 Math Classroom (Stenhouse).