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Friday, June 24, 2016
9:00-11:00
Impact Sessions
Teaching K-8 Mathematics for Social Jusctice:
Starting Places for Action
Erin Turner &
Julía María Aguirre
Grande
Ballroom E
K-8
This interactive session will introduce participants to key principles and strategies for
Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice (TMSJ) in the elementary and middle
grades. TMSJ is an advocacy approach for teaching children to learn rich, rigorous
and relevant mathematics that authentically connects to students’ lived experiences;
cultivates a positive mathematics identity, and reduces status and power issues in
the classroom. Video clips, group activities, mathematics tasks, and student work
will be used to illustrate key principles and connections to the Common Core
Standards, and to provide examples of TMSJ in action. The session will end with
opportunities for participants to explore resources, and to brainstorm ways to get
started with Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice in their own classrooms,
courses or workshops!
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Erin Turner
Promoting Mathematical Discourse with English
Learners: Professional Development through a
University-District Collaboration
Rodrigo J. Gutiérrez &
Halla Jmourko
Grande
Ballroom F
K-5
This session will focus on the design and implementation of teacher professional
development for improving mathematics instruction for English Learners. Workshop
participants will review and discuss teacher training materials, as well as languagebased instructional tools for classroom implementation. Both teachers and teacher
educators (e.g., coaches, university faculty) will develop an understanding of
approaches to align the CCSS Mathematical Practices and the WIDA Language
Development Standards. More specifically, the presenters will provide an overview
of their unique partnership to offer a yearlong professional development (“Focus
Group”) aimed at supporting elementary mainstream and ESOL teachers to engage
English Learners in mathematical discourse. The Focus Group emphasized the
development of the teachers’ knowledge and practices related to problem solving
based mathematics, the language of mathematics, linguistic supports, and discourse
moves.
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11:00-11:15
Julía María Aguirre
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Rodrigo J. Gutiérrez
Halla Jmourko
Break
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