November 17, 2018
November 17, 2018
Check out my Teachin’ It! Youtube Channel where you can pick up high-leverage strategies for teaching community college students. I interview instructors from Santa Rosa Junior College and other professionals who care about equity, active learning, group learning, and empowering students. Walk away with strategies that you can try the next day in class.
October 10, 2018
October 10, 2018
The wealth of cultural assets that minority students and students with fewer socioeconomic resources bring to the classroom are frequently undervalued and overwritten. If we continue to ignore these students’ assets, we perpetuate the larger 
system of inequity. How can we make sure that we illuminate the assets of all of our students in our classrooms? This presentation illustrates the problem and offers some solutions. If you would like to watch this presentation on my research in a Yucatec Maya village, then check out the video from the SRJC Arts and Lecture Series from September 24, 2018. You could show parts of it to students in a math, anthropology, education, or equity course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362p47EdY7s&feature=youtu.be
September 23, 2018
How can we help students do better in math? Maybe we can shine the light on student assets during class instead of overwriting student autonomy and creativity by using canned curriculum. We should encourage students to experiment, explore, and express their unique approaches—especially students who have distinguished themselves by coming from a community with exceptional autonomy and improvisational expertise, like the Yucatec Maya students in this study.
Attend or Zoom in to my talk about my research, Making Cultural Assets Count: Funds of math knowledge in a Yucatec Maya village and middle school. It happens as part of the SRJC Arts and Lecture Series on Monday, September 24, 2018 in the SRJC Newman Auditorium from 12:00 to 1:00pm. It counts a PD flex at SRJC, too. To join the Zoom webinar, click: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/356294367 (Webinar ID: 356 294 367). SRJC Arts and Lecture Series https://arts-lectures.santarosa.edu/
SRJC Arts and Lecture Series presents Making Cultural Assets Count: Funds of Math Knowledge in a Yucatec Maya community and middle school by Dr. Felicia Darling.
I will present on my 6-month, ethnographic study in the Yucatán (lots of pictures). The wealth of cultural knowledge students bring to all of our classes is remarkable. This study highlights community knowledge and innovative, everyday problem-solving approaches that students bring to math class. This is on Monday, September 24, 2018 in the SRJC Neuman Auditorium from 12:00 to 1:00pm. It counts a PD flex at SRJC.
https://arts-lectures.santarosa.edu/ www.feliciadarling.com
July 6, 2018
July 2, 2018
If you are interested in seeing community college instructors talk about their amazing strategies and practices, I have just launched my Teachin’ It! Youtube Channel. By the end of this week, I should have another five videos. There is expertise all around us:) Let’s share it to help more students succeed:) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0PEwHT99FuZgJs4mvu81aw
March 20, 2018
Combat Summer Math Learning Loss
The price is $500 for the six week course. Please submit a $100 deposit by April 30th to reserve a space. Full payment is due by May, 30, 2018. Contact me at fdarling@alumni.stanford.edu or 707.483.5113 with questions, to enroll, or to try out the online format. Students will need a tablet and pen to take online courses.
To find out more… http://feliciadarling.com/math-coaching/
March 17, 2018
I love the way Berkeley GSE is so unapologetically radical:) Presented at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education18th Annual Education Research Day.
http://www.berkeleyreviewofeducation.com/2018-gse-education-research-day.html
