Equity

Michaelrose Ravalier explores the intersection of culture and education and how this can impact English Language Learners’ experiences with school.

Using poetry, Ayanna Perry explores the world at the intersection of math and identity.

Ayanna Perry’s article Plotting your status: An equity strategy was recently published in the MTLT journal. This article invites teachers to plot their status, using a Desmos activity, to support reflection on their classroom practice.

This unit uses the phenomenon of the food industry and the driving question “How does nitrogen fertilizer for blueberry crops impact life on Earth?” As students interrogate the stakeholders and impacts of using food crop fertilizers, they will also learn about stoichiometry and the basics of chemical reactions.

The Knowles Teacher Initiative Evolution of Doing Resource helps educators reflect on how their notions of what it means to “do” math or science evolve. This tool supports teachers in considering how these evolving ideas shape the opportunities they create for students to engage meaningfully as doers of the discipline.