Professional Development
Black Mathematicians provides professional development to pre-service and current teachers, school principals, and district administration. Our work with these groups include engaging activities and tasks that include critically examining African American student learning in mathematics through multiple lenses. Some of those lenses include culture, identity, and equity.
Using a variety of tools, such as student work, assessment statistics, case studies, video-based materials, and personal reflection, we will focus on ways that support learning of mathematics for African American students. Some of the those supports include high expectations, rigorous curriculum, rich mathematical tasks, developing routines, representing students’ mathematical thinking, facilitating productive mathematical discourse, and helping African American students see themselves as mathematicians.