Toi Smith

Toi Smith joined the UChicago STEM Education team in 2020 after thirteen years of teaching at the UChicago Charter School- North Kenwood Oakland Campus where she taught fourth and fifth grades. Prior to joining UChicago STEM Education, Toi participated in the Principal and Teacher Leadership Institute to support North Kenwood Oakland in the development of school goals and plans around high-quality mathematics teaching and learning. While working as math coach, she also led the Cross-Campuses Math Collaborative and supported PK through 5th grade teachers within the UChicago network in developing and facilitating tasks that promote productive struggle in mathematics.

Toi provides long-term coaching support and professional development for elementary math teachers and school administrators to help them develop goals, implement plans and recognize effective classroom practices that promote and support high-quality teaching and learning. She is also a member of the Everyday Mathematics team and recently authored several Grade 4 Independent-Non Routine problems that support rich tasks and mathematical reasoning.

Toi holds a BA in Science from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, an MS in Elementary Education from Concordia University-Riverforest and has completed coursework as an Elementary Math Specialist at the University of Chicago.