Joining us for this episode is Nicole Andrée Vernon, who shares with us how she explored the ways in which Equity might support the success of our Mathematics classrooms and at the institutionalized level.

Teaching Equity and Mathematics (T.E.A.M.) Leadership is a mathematical leadership initiative that she developed in 2022 to monitor instruction, guide student learning, and build on school mathematical education improvement processes. T.E.A.M Leadership ensured that students were centered, reflected and affirmed within their classrooms and schools.

The primary goals of T.E.A.M. were to consider our mathematical classrooms, institutional & system issues from an Equity, Diversity and Inclusive lens, as it relates to:

1. Access
2. Achievement
3. Identity
4. Power within our mathematical classrooms.  

As a lead learner, Nicole focused on teaching practices that included opportunities for students to engage in active learning, and to probe, analyze and evaluate The Silenced Dialogue - the voices of those who have been marginalized because of race, gender, socioeconomic class, dominant language & ethnicity. Nicole continues to ensure that one’s teaching is within the context of ‘a system vision of excellence in education,’ and continues to co-construct shared reflections and encourage critical, courageous dialogue in collaboration with a network of courageous critical friends about the impacts of structures, power relations and mathematical inequalities. 

OUR GUEST

• Nicole Andrée Vernon - Durham District School Board

HOSTS

• Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
• Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council

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