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RJEM Promising Math

Promising Math 2022

Promising Math 2022

Reimagining Early Math Education

Join us virtually on May 17 and 18, 2022 for two days of engaging speakers and facilitated events! Together, we will address the commitments in the RJEM Call to Action by:

● Framing the ways that racial oppression and white supremacy affect early mathematics education;
● Examining our individual and collective responsibilities to address racial oppression and injustice in early math; and
● Contributing to new thinking around early math education that is worthy of children and families who have been historically underserved.

Promising Math 2022

We welcome scholars, community leaders, teachers, activists, policymakers, and parents from all walks of life – everyone who cares about early math education can contribute something essential to this event.

We will dive deeply into problems of systemic racism and the ways they injure our youngest math learners. We will think collectively about how these systems manifest in the environments in which we live and work. And we will work together to develop new approaches to ensuring that historically marginalized children have every opportunity to make mathematics their own.

As part of the event, we will hear from educators, parents, scholars, and community members who have developed creative and inspiring ways of providing mathematics education opportunities that circumvent or disrupt the systemic racial injustices embedded in our educational systems. There will be several opportunities to connect with others who care about this work, building new relationships with like-minded colleagues.

Register for Promising Math 2022

2022 Plenary Speakers

Amy ParksAmy Parks is a Professor at the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Her current projects include investigations of the role of play in mathematical learning, the resources parents draw on when supporting their children in mathematics, connections between emotional relationships and content learning in primary classrooms, and the mathematical engagements that are possible in informal spaces. She is author of Exploring Mathematics through Play In the Early Childhood Classroom (2014).

Tambra JacksonTambra Jackson is Dean of the School of Education at Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis. She considers herself to be a scholar-activist and is committed to social justice issues pertaining to the historical and contemporary oppression, miseducation, and liberation of children of Color in U.S. schools. She is author of Black Mother Educators: Advancing Praxis for Access, Equity and Achievement (2021).

Event Information

● Dates and Times: May 17 and 18, 2022, 10:00am-4:00pm CT
● Fee: $75 (see scholarship info)
● Location: Virtual via Zoom

Scholarships

Conference scholarships provided by our co-sponsor, the University of Illinois at Chicago. To inquire about scholarships contact us at RJEM@Erikson.edu.

Submit a Proposal

All conference registrants will be invited to submit a proposal to present an “RJEMTalk” (“jem-talk”), a short video presentation to be shared with other conference attendees, followed by a live, interactive session for those interested in your work on May 18th as part of the conference. Look for a “submit a proposal” link in your registration confirmation email.

What is a RJEMTALK (“JEM-TALK”)?

  1. A 10-12 minute presentation recorded on zoom and shared with conference attendees
  2. An hour on May 18 during the conference to host a zoom room to discuss your presentation with other attendees who are interested in your topic. During this time, presenters will:
    – Answer questions attendees may have.
    – Discuss any resources to share.
    – Explore key learnings participants took from the presentation.

What are the key due dates?

March 21, 2022 | RJEMTalk Proposal due
April 25, 2022 | Video of RJEMTalk must be uploaded to the Promising Math 2022: platform

What should my RJEMTalk be about?

All RJEMTalks should report on work that furthers the three primary goals of the Promising Math 2022 Conference. Specifically, your RJEMTalk should do at least one of the following things:

  • • Make clear how racial justice interacts with early math learning; and/or
  • • Provide ideas for how to bring reflection on racial justice to the work of early math education; and/or
  • • Describe efforts to reimagine early math education in ways that promote racial justice.

We recognize that people have multiple identities that they bring to this work and are at different stages of examining how these identities relate to racial justice. We are striving for diversity of thoughts and perspectives, especially those that speak directly to antiblackness, antibrownness and white supremacy in all their manifestations.

Contributions are welcome from community groups, schools, human service organizations, institutions of higher education, among others. We also welcome contributions from a wide variety of academic perspectives, such as sociology, language, educational psychology, family studies, history, as long as the RJEMTalk explicitly makes a connection between the work to be reported on and racial justice in early mathematics. We welcome reimagining work that represents a spectrum of experience and thought, ranging from more traditional approaches, such as homeschooling or religious education, to recent developments in fields such as Afrofuturism, abolitionist practices, Black liberatory fantasy, radical imagination, or math liberation.

Due to the nature of our work, we are not neutral in our stance against racial injustice. We are unequivocal and unapologetic about racial justice and want RJEMTalks to represent that stance.

What should my RJEMTalk proposal address?

To submit your proposal you will be asked to answer the following questions. Each response has a character limit, including spaces, of 650 characters.

  1. Provide a summary of your RJEMTalk for the conference program, if accepted.
  2. What is the context of the work your RJEMTalk will describe?
  3. Who will present the work and what is their relationship to the topic?
  4. Please describe the positionality of yourself/your presenters. For example, what’s your worldview? How do you identify? How will your multiple identities be at work during this conference and your presentation?
  5. What are some of the key ideas relevant to understanding Racial Justice in Early Mathematics that your RJEMTalk will address?
  6. What key takeaways on Racial Justice in Early Mathematics will your RJEMTalk offer attendees?
  7. What are the implications of the work for helping us reimagine early math education to foster greater racial justice?
  8. What resources does your work provide to attendees, specifically hyperlinks? We will make these available to attendees in advance along with the RJEMTalk summary.

How will my proposal be evaluated?

  • • Proposals will be reviewed by a multi-member advisory group for:
  • • Relevance to the topic and fit with the overall conference goals and themes
  • • Degree to which either multiple/diverse or commonly underrepresented views will be shared
  • • Emphasis on opportunities for reflection/learning
  • • Ideas for thinking about early math education differently
  • • Coherence and clarity

If you need help with your proposal, please contact us at rjem@erikson.edu. We are happy to support and provide guidance.

When is my proposal for an RJEMTalk due?

March 21, 2022

When will I hear back if my RJEMTalk has been accepted?

April 1, 2022

When will my recorded RJEMTalk have to be uploaded to the Promising Math 2022 Platform?

April 25, 2022

When will my recorded RJEMTalk be shared with conference attendees?

May 9, 2022

Your proposal will be saved, as long as you use the same device. You can choose to return to it until you are ready to submit.

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2022 Advisory Committee

Tonya Bibbs, Erikson Institute

 

Kimberly Brenneman, Heising-Simons Foundation

 

Nathaniel Bryan, Miami University

 

Sarai Coba-Rodriguez, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Maile Hadley, Zeno Math

Gigliana Melzi, New York University

 

Maria L. Ortega, BPNC

 

Amy Parks, Michigan State University

 

Aisha Ray, Erikson Institute

 

Penny Smith, Erikson Institute

Sponsors

This conference is organized by the Racial Justice in Early Mathematics project at Erikson Institute – a collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago – and generously funded by the Heising Simons foundation.



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