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uLead2023 - The Summit of Educational Leadership has ended
Welcome to uLead 2023.  We are thrilled you will be joining us at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel for our annual school leadership conference hosted by the Council for School Leadership of The Alberta Teachers’ Association.

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Monday, April 17 • 10:45am - 11:45am
Is Failing to Learn a Failure to Belong: Changing the Equation on Who Gets to Know, Learn and Do Math

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Mathematics has been described as a privileged knowledge that only some students have access to (Anderson, 1990, Ladson-Billings 1995; Moses and Cobb, Walkerdine, 1998). Despite well-intentioned efforts of teachers, districts, and math education leaders, mathematics remains a gatekeeper that continues to filter out the vast majority of students in North America. More troubling is the fact that this filter cuts across social, racial, cultural, class, and gender lines. Over time this reinscribes divisive social, cultural and economic stratification by perpetuating a false narrative of “who gets to know”. This presentation looks to current neuroscience to provide multiple pathways that encourage belonging for all students inside the math classroom, making math learning more accessible to all students and challenging the narrative that mathematics is an elite endeavor.
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avatar for Gina Nicole Cherkowski

Gina Nicole Cherkowski

Calgary Separate School Local No 55
Dr. Gina Cherkowski is a Social Justice educator, researcher, advocate and thought leader. Gina holds a double-cognate PhD in Mathematics and Culture Studies in Education, thus bringing together two worlds which do not often align. Gina is known globally for her work on the advancement... Read More →

Monday April 17, 2023 10:45am - 11:45am MDT
Oak Room (Main Building)
  Instructional Leadership