Same But Different: A Language-based Routine to Promote Equity

I am a mother, wife and math teacher. I currently teach at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA and my favorite class to teach is statistics! This is my 27th year of teaching and I am a Desmos fellow and Desmos certified presenter. @mathteacher24 is my twitter handle and I blog at mathteacher24.blogspot.com. I have several tech related videos for stat and TI-NSpire at www.youtube.com/mathteacher24. Feel free to ask me questions about National Board Certification (renewed in 2015). I also enjoy singing, reading and staying fit using workouts from Beachbody (P90X3/TurboFire/21DFX).

As a new teacher, Sue became aware that her fifth grade students had significant gaps in understanding mathematics. This began her journey to understand how children learn mathematics. Inspired by the work of author Jonathon Kozol (Savage Inequalities, 1991) she became particularly interested in our most vulnerable and under-represented populations and supporting the teachers that day in and day out serve these students with compassion, enthusiasm, and kindness.
This learning journey has taken Sue to amazing places: from the elementary classroom, to writing materials for preschool students, to obtaining her doctorate and teaching pre-service teachers at Boston University, to speaking at conferences from coast to coast in the United States, to writing two children’s books, and to volunteering in the Galapagos Islands! She has been fortunate for these experiences and to have met incredible educators along the way who have been willing to teach and inspire her. She is still curious, still learning, and has a deep respect for all educators.