Submitted by: Pat Higgiston

After playing around with a few neat maps that I came across on the Internet, we used the short meeting (my last of the year with parental leave in T3) to start thinking ahead to goal-setting for the 21-22 school year.

We discussed the initial frame for the current year, set out by the DEI Coordinators and by the chair (and determined somewhat by COVID times as well). Given that COVID impacts and our community’s commitment to DEI work will continue into next school year, I laid out a framework for goal-setting for the department. Each member will have two personal practice goals: one focused on access and achievement (the “dominant” math ed paradigm) and one focused on identity and power (the “critical” math ed paradigm). They can articulate these now and prep over the summer for their implementation in the new school year. (When the department first meets next year, we’ll be able to reflect on progress so far, rather than starting this process then!)

We will also collectively choose a departmental goal, using the list of questions that the DEI coordinators and Mark offered to us in the beginning of this school year, on the assumption that those questions will still be relevant.

We will set both personal and departmental goals across the last two meetings of the year. For T3, Karima will take over the chair responsibilities of facilitating and recording while I’m on leave.