Kari Kokka's guest appearances

Kari Kokka

Leading Equity

TODOS Podcast

Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill Ayers

John Brown

Eve Ewing

Glenn Jones

Matthew Taylor

Sarah Thomas

David Adams

Kristen Davidson

Tonya Ward

Rashid Khalidi

Ryan Heath

Randall Sampson

Bill Ayers

Robert Berry

Elena Aguilar

Bill Fletcher

OwlTail

The idea of a “seminar” provides us a vast metaphor, offering infinite roads to travel and pathways to pursue: Poems and Free-writes, Language Arts and Current Events, History and Geography, and much much more. Today, we’ll get to something we’ve been missing up until now: the wide and wonderful world of Mathematics. Of course, everything we humans produce is created in context, and the stuttering cliche that math is just the objective truth neither explains nor justifies the manipulation, deception, damage, and fraud as well as the beauty and power that flies at us from every direction in the name of facts and figures—the mantle of math. Numbers don’t express the gospel—they can easily hide injustices and conceal reality. We’re joined in conversation today with Kari Kakko, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the most thoughtful people working today to rescue math from the many myths and misunderstandings that seem to cling to it like a tangle of ugly barnacles.

The idea of a “seminar” provides us a vast metaphor, offering infinite roads to travel and pathways to pursue: Poems and Free-writes, Language Arts and Current Events, History and Geography, and much much more. Today, we’ll get to something we’ve been missing up until now: the wide and wonderful world of Mathematics. Of course, everything we humans produce is created in context, and the stuttering cliche that math is just the objective truth neither explains nor justifies the manipulation, deception, damage, and fraud as well as the beauty and power that flies at us from every direction in the name of facts and figures—the mantle of math. Numbers don’t express the gospel—they can easily hide injustices and conceal reality. We’re joined in conversation today with Kari Kakko, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the most thoughtful people working today to rescue math from the many myths and misunderstandings that seem to cling to it like a tangle of ugly barnacles.

A Word on Statistics ft. Kari Kokka

We end our first podcast season with a topic that is on all of our minds: relationships! How do we search for and cultivate meaningful professional relationships as mentors or mentees? What does it mean to decolonize the mentor/mentee relationship? Briana Rodriguez of Los Angeles, CA was a mathematics high school teacher prior to her move, and is currently a doctoral students and advisee of Dr. Kari Kokka at the University of Pittsburg, PA. They reflect on their advisee/advisor relationship with each other, and what is means to build meaningful relationships with students in high school classrooms.  Links to learn more about the research and activism of Dr. Kokka: www.karikokka.com  https://www.education.pitt.edu/people/KarenKokka

We end our first podcast season with a topic that is on all of our minds: relationships! How do we search for and cultivate meaningful professional relationships as mentors or mentees? What does it mean to decolonize the mentor/mentee relationship? Briana Rodriguez of Los Angeles, CA was a mathematics high school teacher prior to her move, and is currently a doctoral students and advisee of Dr. Kari Kokka at the University of Pittsburg, PA. They reflect on their advisee/advisor relationship with each other, and what is means to build meaningful relationships with students in high school classrooms. Links to learn more about the research and activism of Dr. Kokka: <a href="http://www.karikokka.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.karikokka.com</a> <a href="https://www.education.pitt.edu/people/KarenKokka" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.education.pitt.edu/people/KarenKokka</a>

S1e12: Mentoring Relationships with Kari Kokka and Briana Rodriguez

Get my 5 Tips To Address Implicit Bias Within Ourselves and Others About Kari Kokka, Ph.D. Kari Kokka is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Instruction and Learning of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies student and teacher perspectives of Social Justice Mathematics, STEAM teacher activism, and preservice teacher critical consciousness development. She is also interested in radical healing and trauma informed care frameworks to support students’ and teachers’ well-being. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a math teacher and math coach for 10 years at Vanguard High School, a Title I public high school in New York City, where she used Performance Assessment and Complex Instruction to work toward equitable mathematics teaching and learning. She started her career in education as a math teacher and diving coach at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California. She has also worked at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to support schools and districts with Performance Assessment and Project Based Learning. She completed her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, her M.A. with the Stanford Teacher Education Program, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is also co-founder of the Creating Balance Conference on STEM Education and Social Justice, a founding member of the Radical STEMM Educators of the Bay Area, and co-chair of the Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. She was recently selected as the faculty recipient of the Iris Marion Young Award for Social Justice by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh. She can be reached at kokka@pitt.edu. Show Highlights  Social Justice Mathematics Developing better citizenship in students How Kari became involved in Social Justice Mathematics Initiating Trauma Informed Practices in Mathematics How to get started with Social Justice Mathematics Some of the key findings in Kari’s research Resources for Social Justice Pedagogy  Connect with Kari Twitter: @karikokka kokka@pitt.edu Connect with me on Twitter @sheldoneakins www.sheldoneakins.com

<a href="http://sheldoneakins.com/5tips/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Get my 5 Tips To Address Implicit Bias Within Ourselves and Others</a> About Kari Kokka, Ph.D. Kari Kokka is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Instruction and Learning of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies student and teacher perspectives of Social Justice Mathematics, STEAM teacher activism, and preservice teacher critical consciousness development. She is also interested in radical healing and trauma informed care frameworks to support students’ and teachers’ well-being. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a math teacher and math coach for 10 years at Vanguard High School, a Title I public high school in New York City, where she used Performance Assessment and Complex Instruction to work toward equitable mathematics teaching and learning. She started her career in education as a math teacher and diving coach at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California. She has also worked at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to support schools and districts with Performance Assessment and Project Based Learning. She completed her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, her M.A. with the Stanford Teacher Education Program, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is also co-founder of the <a href="http://www.cbuw.org/%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Creating Balance Conference on STEM Education and Social Justice</a>, a founding member of the Radical STEMM Educators of the Bay Area, and co-chair of the Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. She was recently selected as the faculty recipient of the Iris Marion Young Award for Social Justice by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:kokka@pitt.edu" rel="noopener">kokka@pitt.edu</a>. Show Highlights <ul> <li>Social Justice Mathematics</li> <li>Developing better citizenship in students</li> <li>How Kari became involved in Social Justice Mathematics</li> <li>Initiating Trauma Informed Practices in Mathematics</li> <li>How to get started with Social Justice Mathematics</li> <li>Some of the key findings in Kari’s research</li> <li>Resources for Social Justice Pedagogy</li> </ul> Connect with Kari Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/karikokka" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@karikokka</a> <a href="mailto:kokka@pitt.edu">kokka@pitt.edu</a> Connect with me on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/sheldoneakins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@sheldoneakins</a> <a href="http://www.sheldoneakins.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sheldoneakins.com</a>

LE 63: Creating Student Activists Through Social Justice Mathematics with Dr. Kari Kokka