This CRT approach to education involves a commitment to develop schools that acknowledge the multiple strengths of Communities of Color in order to serve a larger purpose of struggle toward social and racial justice.

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s possessed by socially marginalized groups that often go unrecognized and unacknowledged. Various forms of capital nurtured through cultural wealth include aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial and resistant capital.

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"Did you ever realize that math was more than black marks on paper?" This stands out to me because this is how I want my classroom to be. I want students to realize that math isn't just some squiggly lines on paper but it describes the reality we live in. There is a reason for everything and we didn't just make up formulas out of nowhere. When students realize this it opens up a whole new way of thinking.

This reminds me of how anything is learned. There is a front and a back. Tony Hawk landing the 900 in 1999 during the X Games skateboard competition was amazing but people didn't see the 'back' of this where he had been trying the trick for 13 years. They only saw the neat landing he had that was broadcast on T.V. This could lead somebody to believe skateboarding was easy, and difficult never before done tricks could be learned in an afternoon. This isn't the reality.

This quote is memorable because it shows as we said before that how your first experiences with a subject are, shape the way you see that subject throughout your life.

What is math? Is a great question to ask students to be able to see what their personal definition of math is to them.

This makes me both happy and sad that once somebody changes their perception of how they learn, they can be very successful and happy with the subject they thought they hated. What is sad about it is that there are so many people with this false perception of themselves being bad at something that don't get to change their view.

This is important because it shows how family life can affect the way somebody learns even later in life. For me, my father was always very calm when teaching me something, for my brothers though when they show me something I have one brother who will try to make it easy for me to understand by helping me the way I learn best, and my other brother will just do what this woman's grandfather did and just brute force style teach me how to do it. Just repetition and getting it done. Not realizing the importance behind explaining why we are doing it the way we are.

When she says "procedures she was supposed to memorize even though she didn't know where they came from" This stuck out to me because one of the most important things for me about learning is understanding why something is. If I understand why we are doing something, it makes it easier to make connections later on.

This quote is important because it shows that sometimes students or anyone really will have an idea of what they believe math to be and this will taint their ability to be confident enough to make mistakes and learn anything new.

This is similar to an idea mentioned earlier in this reading about a quote we discussed in class. "Power is implicated in culture as well. That is, members of the dominant cultural values as 'normal', while they view the values of subordinated groups as deviant or perhaps even wrong".(p.137). The difference in this part of the text is that by being culturally compatible with just the most numerous group of students, you are artificially making a dominant group within the school. Either way, you have to be culturally compatible with all cultures.

When I read the first few sentences, I instantly was reminded of the video we had to watch "The Urgency of Intersectionality". In this text it explains how there are so many different people and personalities that one thing doesn't / can't define someone. In the video, the TED talk goes on to explain how people look at others with a singular mindset. The TED talk explained how a judge threw out a discrimination case an African American woman had against a company that didn't hire her. The judges reasoning was that the company had both African American men and also women working for the company. This overlooked the fact the woman bringing forth the suit wasn't just black, she wasn't just a woman, she was an African American woman. This is who was being discriminated against. This part of the text is important in that we need to remember that everyone is unique in multiple ways and can't be defined by just one characteristic.

This sentence stands out to me because it reminds me of something my mother told me she experienced growing up. Spanish is her first language and she explained to me and my brothers that in her English class when she was required to read aloud, when her classmates would snicker or laugh, she would just think how they must have viewed her. She would remind herself that this is her second language shes learning and this is many of their firsts. This gave her more confidence to continue learning and highlighted to me the difference in perspectives of how people who don't have Enligsh as their first language.