Math teachers just now looking for social justice lessons - you cannot just show up to class one day with a lesson on systemic racism and police brutality! A thread 1/
These topics require an incredible amount of care when planning. How might your students react? How will you react to your students? How will you center and discuss these heavy and layered issues while still teaching your students the math they need to make sense of them? 2/
Math lessons rooted in issues of social justice are much more to your students than simply swapping a context of Joey going to a carnival with incarceration rates 3/
Even if your classroom (virtual or otherwise) is built on a culture of care and discussion and exploration, these topics can be triggering in ways you may not expect or be able to imagine 4/
Reach out to colleagues who have taught math for social justice and ask them what norms they set, what has been difficult for them, what they have found successful. Utilize #MTBoS #iteachmath for these conversations 5/
White teachers - avoid reaching out to your Black colleagues for support unless they have explicitly offered to help. They are busy right now. The conversations they have with their students are going to look different than the ones you’ll have with you’re students anyways.
Don’t get me wrong, these lessons can be purposeful and powerful but they are also complex and HARD for you and your students. You have to do the work. 6/6
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