“Teach students to ask their own questions. When you start explaining things, it teaches kids how to ask questions...then they can extrapolate those skills for anything.” -@TheJLV#NCTMSD2019
Questions we can ask ourselves when we perceive a students' behaviour to be violating what *we* expect:
Is this behaviour hampering the student's learning?
Is this behaviour hampering other students' learning?
Is this behaviour only bothering me?
@deborah_ball#NCTMSD2019#MTBoS
It is not enough to promote justice through classroom discussions if we’re not also explicitly working to prevent injustice. Choosing great tasks, but implementing them in ways that further marginalize students is still destructive.
@deborah_ball#NCTMSD2019#T3Learns#MTBoS
When Black boys are continually asked to go sit out until they are ready to participate, the damage isn't just done to the individual student but also to the class who are being taught that Black boys are bad. @deborah_ball#NCTMSD2019#T3Learns#MTBoS#ITeachMath
Why do discretionary spaces matter? Because students of color are more likely to be disciplined for subjective infractions. How we interpret and act in discretionary moments MATTERS.
@deborah_ball#NCTMSD2019#T3Learns#MTBoS#ITeachMath
"The word assess comes from the Latin assidere, which means to sit beside. Literally then, to assess means to sit beside the learner." 🤔@gfletchy#NCTMSD2019#CPSMathandme
Equity audit from @gjladson’s experience: all students reading on grade level by grade 3. All groups 90%+ attendance. And all students in Alg 1 by 9th grade and geometry by 10th. And the only one that got no traction in the district was the math one! #NCTMSD2019
“The kinds of innovations that will be talked about at this conference rarely make their way into the classrooms of marginalized students.”
@GjLadson speaking truth to power at #NCTMSD2019 this evening.
Equity must be considered in everything that we do.
Achievement in mathematics does not lie solely on students. Inequitable distribution of qualified teachers is a major contributor to the achievement gap. #NCTMSD2019
Low-income Ss is color not only receive less qualified math teachers, but that they they are less like likely to receive effective Ts. @gjladson#NCTMSD2019
There is nothing inherently difficult about school mathematics. The way we teach it keeps students from having access. - Gloria Ladson-Billings #NCTMSD2019