Culturally responsive education for me is the understanding that children are people and without building relationships and without understanding children we can't teach them.

I was always late, I was always sleeping it was tired I was depressed and not once did he ask me why my parents stopped going to parent-teacher meetings in middle school.

It is first questioning what you think is normal in education and where did this come from, when was the last time a student learned about Haiti, when was the last time a student learned about Colombia, when was the last time a student learned about Mexico?

I want everyone to be able to know along with myself about my heritage I want people to be able to say where they are coming from and what they are proud of.

I try to make sure that students feel that they have a sense of agency in the class I ask them to think critically about the math that's in front of them.