By acknowledging and actively working to eliminate the systemic barriers that Indigenous, Black, racialized and marginalized students face, educators create the conditions for authentic experiences that empower student voices and enhance their sense of belonging, so that each student can develop a healthy identity as a mathematics learner and can succeed in mathematics and in all other subjects.
Adapted from Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum - Mathematics: Grade 9
Assessment from a CRRP stance, by its nature, encompasses a wide variety of assessment approaches. It is designed to reflect, affirm, and enhance the multiple ways of knowing and being that students bring to the classroom while maintaining appropriate and high academic expectations for all students. The primary purpose of assessment is to improve student learning.
Adapted from Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum - Mathematics: Grade 9
Learning needs to be accessible to all students. All students need to have opportunities to meet high expectations.
The following are some recommendations for how to adjust practices that may limit opportunities for some students. We need to carefully seletc, and intentional about, the practices we use in our classrooms to ensure that they do not perpetuate a system of oppression but instead give access to high level mathematics for all.