What's Happening?
Our Current Work and Our Current Learning
🎉 Celebrating Marta Garcia, the NCSM 2025 Kay Gilliland Lecture Series Awardee! For more than three decades, Marta has been a bold advocate for equity in mathematics education. Her leadership centers multilingual learners and students with disabilities, empowering educators through her work as a consultant, curriculum designer, and graduate instructor at Mount Holyoke College. Through her work with schools, grants and initiatives and her mentorship of future math leaders, Marta’s career embodies what it means to lead with purpose, equity, and heart.
Congratulations, Marta—your work continues to elevate mathematics education for each and every learner. 💙
A new article in Edutopia written by Marta and her colleague and Annie: Using Student Reflections to Inform Your Small Groups
Using students’ perspectives on math classes to inform your grouping practices can positively impact how they see themselves as math learners.
A Speaker Series: Elements of Equitable Math Learning Communities
As part of a speaker series on Equitable Math Classrooms, Marta had an opportunity, along with her colleague Lynne Godfrey, to provide an overview of a Framework that includes Four Elements of Equitable Math Learning Communities: An Introduction.
You can watch the video of the session here.
NCTM Chicago 2024
Marta and her colleague Annie presented a session at NCTM titled: A Student Reflection Tool for Building and Sustaining Equitable Math Learning Communities. You can learn more by visiting this blog and this site.
Check out this article written by Polly and our colleague Jan.
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Interested in learning more about Multilingual Learners in Math Class? Check out this interview with Marta and her colleague Mike!
#ElemMath Chat
@MathConnections
NCTM Seattle
Marta served on the Program Committee for this amazing conferenece that focused on Belonging in Mathematics. Check out some of these educators that were on our Keynote Panel!
New Work!
Check out this blog entry that Marta wrote with her colleague Annie. This blog is part of an ongoing project focused on equitable mathematics classrooms.
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
We welcome the opportunity to learn with you!
Marta's Reading Pile : Reading Now!
Rebuilding Students' Learning Power
We are excited to read and discuss this book! We have begun a book group and are ready to think carefully about this term that is just so provocative: Cognitive Justice
Polly's Reading Pile : Reading Now!
Rebuilding Students' Learning Power We are excited to read and discuss this book! We have begun a book group and are ready to think carefully about this term that is just so provocative: Cognitive Justice
Books and Articles on Our Desktops!
