Stop Producing Actors and Start Supporting the Authenticity of Scholars

• In Event: Cultivating Responsive Practices to Foster Equity for All Learners

Abstract

The theme, Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth is needed as educators are faced with facilitating meaningful lessons during the pandemic; the new normal. This theme grants leaders, educators, and learning advocates to question and critique concepts of leadership supporting validations of all students (Ladson-Billings, 2021). Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching (CRMT) increases individual student connectedness to curricula disrupting the systemic gatekeeping tracks that emerge within schools (Celedón-Pattichis et al., 2018). Leadership celebrating students’ cultures within math lessons de-emulates the dominant society’s learning patterns and promotes the development of positive student identities (Abdulrahim & Orosco, 2020; Edmin, 2020). This paper informs the thinking of leaders and teacher leaders as leadership should support and implement CRMT in K-12 learning spaces.

Authors

• Simone Brown, Eastern Michigan University
  Presenting Author

• Rema E. Reynolds Vassar, Wayne State University
  Presenting Author

• Clyde Barnett, Discover Without Barriers LLC
  Non-Presenting Author

• Donya Odom, Eastern Michigan University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Mia Rollack, Eastern Michigan University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Dikea Ahisha Taylor-Santiago, Eastern Michigan University
  Non-Presenting Author