This project involves designing, facilitating, and studying professional development (PD) to support equitable mathematics education. The PD will involve grades 4-8 mathematics teachers across three sites to support the design of a two-week institute focused on enhancing access and agency in relationship to important math practices, followed by ongoing interactions for the math teachers to engage in systematic inquiry of their practice over time to facilitate equitable mathematics teaching and learning in their classrooms.
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Assistant Professor
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I am an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on broadening notions of teaching mathematics for understanding to consider the cultural and socio-political contexts in which children live and learn. The goals of my research are first to critically examine (a) teaching for understanding, (b) the relationship between students’ out-of-school mathematical knowledge and the mathematics they learn in school, and (c) the mathematical knowledge students need to question inequities in their world. Second to work with in- service and pre-service teachers to identify how these themes can be addressed in the preK-5 mathematics classroom.
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