PhD student Patricia Fuentes Acevedo leads a Family Math Leadership Team (FMLT) including caregivers and teachers at two elementary schools serving a large majority of Latinx students in the Buena Park School District. The FMLT meets monthly to co-design mathematical supports for children’s learning and elevate families’ voices in improvement efforts. The team is supported by project coordinator Isabelle Acosta, and undergraduate research assistant Ashley Hernandez as well as PhD candidate Christina Kimmerling and Professor Rossella Santagata.
These efforts are part of a larger project, Reducing Inequalities in Students’ Opportunities to Learn Mathematics through Adaptive Teacher Professional Development, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation. The project examines how schools can design teacher professional development to incorporate asset-based, culturally relevant approaches to math instruction for Latinx students. Through a Research-Practice Partnership, the project supports two schools in the adaptation of a Cognitively Guided Instruction to their local context, including families’ and teachers’ perspectives, and builds capacity towards continuous improvement. Read more here.
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