Learn to practice the skills of identifying injustice, reflecting on the social, political, and cultural influences that have shaped our own perspective, and responding with empathy. Responding and disrupting injustice isn't always as simple as right or wrong, and one-stop-shop solutions are hardly adequate to respond to the complex challenges ......
Prepare Your Students to Become Global Citizens Modernizing mathematics refers to the idea that teachers should rethink how mathematics has traditionally been taught in schools by making rich tasks and collaboration the focus of instruction and promoting opportunities for active learning. Modern Math Tasks to Provoke Transformational Thinking ......
When Liliana has her first day at a new school, she's nervous about making new friends, and a math problem in her class doesn't help. After she shares her abuela's strategy for solving the problem, some of her classmates don't understand or think her way is wrong. Liliana's teacher, Ms. Edwards, asks her friend Marcia Ascher, a professor and ......
Federico Ardila and What We Do When Fairness Fails Us
How can we use math to understand-and solve-challenges in our world? In What We Do When Fairness Fails Us, Moises, Marissa, and Astrud realize that a specialized high school uses a lottery for admission that prevents many qualified students from attending. As they research how lotteries work, they come across videos by Federico Ardila, a ......
How can we find answers to what we want to learn? Who can help us think about what to do or where to turn? Dr. Talithia Williams, that's who! Before Dr. Williams became a powerful mathematician, she was a young girl with many interests, including math. Dazzling Us with Data shares parts of her early years-such as exploring the outdoors, working at ......
Elevate your Math Coaching and Leadership Skills with the power of the Proactive Coaching Framework - where context meets content for intentional professional growth! Reflecting on their own work as mathematics leaders, Baker and Knapp believe that shifts in instructional practice should center on both the context of one's position and the ......
The stories in this book represent the efforts along the continuum of change including work that is just starting, to initiatives in progress, to examples of advanced implementation. Each story shares an approach addressing one or more of the four key recommendations from Catalyzing Change: Broaden the purposes of learning mathematics Create ......
The stories in this book represent the efforts along the continuum of change including work that is just starting, to initiatives in progress, to examples of advanced implementation. Each story shares an approach addressing one or more of the four key recommendations from Catalyzing Change: Broaden the purposes of learning mathematics Create ......
This book contains a carefully selected and adapted set of lessons from NCTM's Navigations series, with particular emphasis given to incorporating the Mathematics Teaching Practices in NCTM's Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. Teachers of students in grades 9-12 can use these lessons to help their students build on the ......
