Saturday, April 29th, 2023 | 7:30am - 5:30pm
Transforming our Notions of Math Excellence
The Knowledge Shop LA is proud to host its inaugural Family and Community Teaching Summit: Black Educators Transforming Our Notions of Math Excellence (FACTS: BET ON ME). Students, Teachers, Parents, and Families will learn together and collaboratively develop action plans to promote math excellence for Black and Brown students.
Registration only $49.99 (including fees!)
One free child registration per adult registration
FREE Child Care on site (ages 5-12)
Included in your registration: Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and a Gift Bag with books and other products valued at $100!
“The Summit that will bring together Parents, Educators, & Students to look at strategies that have helped Black children become brilliant Mathematicians”.
Our Keynote Speakers
Dr. Shakiyya Bland
Math Educator in Residence, Just Equations
Dr. Shakiyya Bland is a longtime math educator and curriculum specialist with deep experience in culturally responsive education. She was an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow in 2020-22, serving in the U.S. Congress and U.S. Department of the Interior. A consulting educator, she has over 27 years of experience in math instruction, in roles including PreK-12 mathematics educator, district mathematics curriculum instructional learning coach, and certified Courageous Conversations About Race practitioner. Her curriculum unit, which applies geometric modeling to address food apartheid and promote food security, was published in High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice. She also has written culturally responsive lessons, strategies, and research in partnership with BetterLesson, Inc. Master Teacher Project and Balance the Equation: A Grand Challenge for Algebra 1. Her research focuses on the histories of STEM using Africana, Indigenous, and other culturally responsive ways of contributing to and applying scientific and mathematical literacies. She holds a B.S. in Education, M.A. in Education–Curriculum Instruction and Mathematics, and an Ed.D. in Education Leadership. Shakiyya joined Just Equations as Math Educator in Residence in 2022.
Dr. Kyndall Brown
Executive Director, California Mathematics Project Statewide Office, UCLA
Kyndall Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from UC Irvine, masters degrees in computer-based education and mathematics education from CSU Dominguez Hills, and a Ph.D. from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He also has a single subject credential to teach mathematics in the state of California.
Kyndall has over 35 years of experience in the field of mathematics education. Thirteen of those years were spent teaching mathematics in secondary urban classrooms in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). He has taught at both the Middle and High School levels. He has taught everything from pre-algebra to pre-calculus. Most of his students came from low-income communities with large numbers of English language learners.
He provided professional development as a mathematics teacher consultant and director for the UCLA Mathematics Project (UCLAMP) housed in Center X, a unit of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies for 14 years. In that capacity, he has done workshops at schools on strategies to teach mathematics to English language learners, coached mathematics teachers in Center X partnership schools and districts, and directed leadership institutes for teachers of mathematics. As a mathematics resource teacher in LAUSD, he has helped to implement standards-based mathematics programs in secondary schools.
The Agenda
