Courses

Interpreting and Advancing Student Reasoning in Mathematics
This course centers on K-12 students’ mathematical sense-making. Research-based frameworks—including learning progressions, teacher noticing, high-leverage practices, and practices for productive classroom discourse— will be used to interpret and respond to students’ reasoning. Emphasis is placed on practices that are critical to learning content, support equity, and disrupt patterns of injustice. Participants will collect and analyze classroom artifacts, including instructional tasks, samples of student work, and videos of their own teaching. We will collaborate on problems of practice, and plan instruction that promotes meaningful, student-centered math discourse. This course will support educators to better recognize and respond to students’ learning needs, facilitate productive discussions, and design instruction that builds on and advances student reasoning.

Engaging Diverse Worldviews in Contested Times: Theory and Practice
In this course, we will critically examine theories of “worldviews” – defined as systems of beliefs that inform how we come to understand, and live in, the world. We will engage contemplative pedagogy to explore the nature of our own worldview and how it may shape what we personally value and the sources of information we find legitimate. We will also deepen our capacity to facilitate complex moments of disagreement and tension as part of re-affirming how schools in a diverse, democratic republic can be places where student worldviews of all kinds are welcomed.