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Nepantla Teachers Blog

Welcome to our blog! The goal of the Nepantla Teachers Community blog is to provide an honest and encouraging space to navigate sociopolitical situations that occur in mathematics education for the purpose of working towards justice in traditionally marginalized communities. By using the word political, we mean any situation that involves power dynamics.

Nepantla Teachers

Jul 14, 2020
3 min

Introducing Nepantla Cohorts

But every person and institution bears responsibility for dismantling the racist beliefs and actions that we see are prevalent today. Math e

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Nepantla Teachers

Feb 5, 2020
7 min

Universal Language Part II

At the same time, we knew we had to seek official permission and make our concerns known more publicly. It wasn’t just the kids in my classr

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Nepantla Teachers

Feb 1, 2020
5 min

Universal Language Part I

In the summer before my third-year teaching, our district made a decision that I thought would be a game-changer: mandating dual language ed

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Nepantla Teachers

Dec 7, 2019
5 min

Strings Attached Part I

I remember that following year’s Open House like it was yesterday: We [teachers] were all asked to stand along the wall. Our principal intro

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Nepantla Teachers

Nov 6, 2019
6 min

The Storm Part II

The CPS school system has few alternative methods and resources of dealing with students who disrupt class.

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Nepantla Teachers

Oct 9, 2019
5 min

Math Apathy Part II

I opened my mouth, unsure of what was going to come out of it, and said, “What’s one word you would use to describe math class?”

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Nepantla Teachers

Oct 5, 2019
3 min

Math Apathy Part I

I can’t say for sure when I first started to hate my 3rd period class, but by May, I walked into my room ready to throw in the towel.

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Nepantla Teachers

Sep 11, 2019
6 min

"The Dream of Education" Part II

This is a continuation of a previous post. Click here to read Part 1 Part II Norms for Reading Our Blog In Part II of the blog post, each...

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Nepantla Teachers

Aug 2, 2019
4 min

“Pretend That I’m A Cop” - Part I

When I chose to become a math teacher, I thought I was going to transform the world. By my second year teaching, I recognized that this was

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Nepantla Teachers

Jul 30, 2019
2 min

Introduction to Our Blog Posts

Part I Norms for Reading Our Blog The goal of the Nepantla Teachers Community blog is to provide an honest and encouraging space to navigate

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