2018 TELOS Grantee Celebration

Bryan Brown
Wakanda & Beyond: How to Use Technology for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

The talk explores how to use contemporary technology resources to engage in culturally relevant science teaching. Our current access to technological resources provides teachers with a wealth of resources upon which to build excellent curriculum. The challenges of time and the need to learn new technology often limits our capacity to master and use these technological advancements. This workshop outlines how teachers can use technology as a space to get students connected to STEM in ways that were far more difficult in years past.

Jo Boaler
Achieving Elusive Teaching Change through Challenging Myths about Learning: A Blended Approach

The idea that mathematics success is only available to those born with a “mathematics brain” has been challenged in recent years by neuroscience showing that mathematics pathways develop in the brain through learning and practice. This presentation will report upon a study of a blended professional learning model of online and in-person meetings involving 40 teachers in 8 school districts in a high needs area. After taking our online course (How to Learn Math) the teachers changed their teaching, and their relationship with mathematics which prompted significantly higher achievement for students, particularly for girls, ELL students, and disadvantaged students.