Today we speak with Thomasenia Lott Adams from the University of Florida --- Go Gators! Thomasenia is a mathematics teacher educator/researcher with numerous accolations for teaching and the work she does with pre-service teachers. 

We speak with Tomasenia today about how we can use students’ cultural capital to empower learning, why promoting student voice is so important in math class, and why increasing the number of meaningful “touch points” in math class helps amplify student voice.

You’ll Learn: 

• How we can use students' cultural capital to empower learning in the math classroom;
• Why promoting student voice in the math classroom is so important;
• How you can strengthen mathematics literacy in your classroom. 
• Why increasing the number of meaningful “touch points” in math class helps amplify student voice?

Resources: 

NCTM → https://www.nctm.org/

NCSM → https://www.mathedleadership.org/ 

Solution Tree Book Series 

DNAMath → http://www.dnamath.com/

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