This summer, transformation meetings will focus on the on-going lesson study (Boyce et. al., 2023), where an evolving lesson involving Adinkra symbols from Ghana (Eglash, 2021; Willis, 1998) are used to reinforce several SLOs including SLO 10 (Transformations), SLO 5 (Definitions), and SLO 2 (Critique Reasoning). One possible future direction regarding the lesson study is to focus on student thinking, both about the SLOs and about culturally responsive teaching (Abdulrahim & Orosco, 2020; Matthews et al., 2022). We are interested in having new members join to have a “fresh set of eyes” on our lesson study as well as potentially introducing new lesson studies. These meetings over the summer will be facilitated by Steve Boyce and will take place every other Wednesday at 11am (EDT).

References:

Abdulrahim, N. A., & Orosco, M. J. (2020). Culturally responsive mathematics teaching: A research synthesis. The Urban Review, 52, 1-25. 

Boyce, S., An, T., Pyzdrowski, Oppong-Wadie, K., Ion, M., & St. Goar, J. (February, 2023). Learning from Lesson Study in the College Geometry Classroom. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Education. Omaha, NE. (To Appear)

Eglash, R., Bennet, A., Krishnamoorthy, M., Sawyer, S., & Adali, S. (n.d.) Adinkra Background. Culturally Situated Design Tools. https://csdt.org/culture/adinkra/index.html 

Matthews, L. E., Jones, S. M., & Parker, Y. A. (2022). Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks: Fostering Hope in the Elementary Classroom. Corwin Press. Willis, W. B. (1998). The Adinkra dictionary: A visual primer on the language of Adinkra. Pyramid Complex.