Mary Candace Raygoza

Publications

Raygoza, M.C., Cosby, M., Orr, S., King, B., Burris, J. & Soni, S. (2026.) Cultivating Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Hearts, Critical Consciousness, and Professional Praxis through Book Study. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 16(2), 120-137. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.VXOO5450. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol16/iss2/7

Raygoza, M.C. and Cawley, A. (2025). Uplifting Students’ Stories: Meaningful Implementation of Math Autobiographies in College Mathematics Courses. Submitted to Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies. doi: 10.1080/10511970.2025.2571610

Young, J., Raygoza, M. C., Madkins, T, Lawler, B., Roberts, T. (2023). Revisiting Urban Mathematics Education: Towards Robust Theoretical, Conceptual, and Analytical Models. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.21423/jume-v15i2a511

Raygoza, M.C., Cerezo, J., Chua, J., Dexheimer, B., Duncan, B., Granata, J., Harris, D., Herrera, C., Martinelli, L., McCray-Goldsmith, A., Mraovich, M., Obregon, J., Shin, J., Torres, S., & Yoshida, A. (2022). A classroom united will never be defeated: A letter to the next cohort of teacher candidates. California Council on Teacher Education Research Monograph, Fall 2022, 126-136.

Conway, B., Id-Deen, L., Raygoza, M.C., Ruiz, A., Staley, J., & Thanheiser, E. (2022). Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice. Corwin Press.

Raygoza, M.C., Thanheiser, E., Koestler, C., Craig, J., & Guzman, L. (2022). “Mathematics to Explore People Represented in our World and Community” Curriculum adapted for three books in the Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice series. Corwin Press.

Raygoza, M. C. (2022). Humanizing, Empowering, Justice-Centered Back to School Reads. Blog post. August 7, 2022. https://maryraygoza.com/f/humanizing-empowering-justice-centered-back-to-school-reads. 

Raygoza, M.C., Norris, A., & León, R. (2021). Unhidden: The voices of teacher education scholars on disrupting, transforming, and healing toward an antiracist world. Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education, Special Issue 2021, pp. 76-103. doi: https://ailacte.org/images/downloads/Journals/ailacte_specialapr2.pdf#page=81

Raygoza, M.C., Norris, A., & León, R., (2021). Leading with Humanity in Your Online Classroom: Tips Beyond Tech. The Times Higher Education. Retrievable from https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/leading-humanity-your-online-classroom-tips-beyond-tech

Raygoza, M.C., Viola, M, Klein, E. & León, R. (2020). From Private Struggle to Parentscholar Solidarity: Collective Organizing During a Pandemic to Humanize the Academy. Transcontinental Human Trajectories, No. 8. doi: 10.25965/trahs.3122

Raygoza, M.C. (2020). “Transformative Resistance in Mathematics” Book chapter in High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice. Corwin Press.

Raygoza, M.C. and Gorrin, L. (2020). “Learning Statistics for Social Context: “BBQ Becky,” Policing, and Racial Justice in Oakland” Book chapter in High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice. Corwin Press.

Raygoza, M.C., León, R., Lee, C., Junsay, C., Norris, A., & Niermann, G. (2020). Social justice in teacher education: It’s not just a course. In CCTE SPAN 2020 Research Monograph (pp. 86-99). San Francisco, CA: California Council on Teacher Education.

Raygoza, M.C., León, R., & Norris, A. (2020). Humanizing online teaching. http://works.bepress.com/mary-candace-raygoza/28/. Most downloaded paper in the digital repository of Saint Mary’s College of California. 

Raygoza, M.C., León, R., Lee, C., Norris, A., & Junsay, C. (2020). Humanizing online meetings. https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/school-education-faculty-works/1824.

Raygoza, M.C. (2020). Coping with School Closures as Student Teachers: Self-Compassion, Surrender, and Action. https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/school-education-faculty-works/1807

Raygoza, M.C. (2020). COVID-19, Exponential Growth, and the Power of Showing Up in Social Solidarity: The Math Behind the Virus.https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2805&context=school-education-faculty-works

Raygoza, M. C. (2019). Quantitative Civic Literacy. Occasional Paper Series, 2019 (41). https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1275&context=occasional-paper-series 

Johnson, N., Turrou, A., McMillan, B., Raygoza, M.C., & Franke, M. (2019). “Can You Help Me Count these Pennies?”: Surfacing Preschoolers’ Understandings of Counting. Mathematical Thinking and Learning.

Raygoza, M. C. (2017). Teaching About Economic Inequality in United States Secondary Mathematics Classrooms. UCLA. ProQuest ID: Raygoza_ucla_0031D_15759. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m5dr7psx.

Raygoza, M. C. (2016). Striving Toward Transformational Resistance: Youth Participatory Action Research in the Mathematics Classroom. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 9(2).

Raygoza, M.C. (2016). Counting the experiences and beliefs of secondary teachers striving to teach mathematics for social justice in urban schools. Urban Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0042085916672289