Given the diversity of today’s classrooms, it is important for teachers to be familiar with culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) and implement it successfully. My colleagues and I (Matthews, Jones, & Parker, 2013) designed a framework and rubric for creating and assessing culturally relevant cognitively demanding (CRCD) mathematics tasks. Participants will discuss the salient features of CRP and use the CRCD Rubric to engineer tasks that will empower their students. Appropriate implementation of these tasks can help to develop positive student math identity and agency. In addition to task creation, participants will share other culturally relevant math resources.

Audience: K-16 teachers, teacher educators, and administrators

Speaker: Shelly M. Jones, PhD, Professor of Mathematics EducationCentral Connecticut State University