In this paper, we propose a teaching approach centered on community and care, aimed at fostering a democratic classroom environment. We highlight the communal co-creation of the Rights of the Learner (RoTL) as the foundation for establishing a shared responsibility atmosphere. Our interpretation of the RoTL challenges traditional power dynamics,…

This article explores the implementation of Olga Torres's Rights of the Learner (Torres's RotL) framework in a 100-level undergraduate mathematics course, particularly focusing on assessment practices. Torres's RotL framework offers a means to center students' voices, mathematical thinking, and humanity in the classroom. The article delves into…

Children with Disabilities (CwD) have the same rights to get a fundamental education. Thus, it is necessary the teaching aids for CwD as a mathematical thinking-imaginative product to achieve joyful learning. This research problem is: How are the designs and results of the application of the teaching aids for CwD in joyful learning as a form of…

This response to Crystal Kalinec-Craig's article on the Rights of the Learner (RotL) aims to take up and build on the author's ideas about how the RotL framework can promote equitable mathematics teaching and learning. Specifically, this response examines how "listening" is implied in the work of teachers who support young mathematicians…

This article contributes to current debates on progressive, knowledge-based approaches to the curriculum by addressing the question of what it is that students are entitled to learn in school mathematics. From the outset it recognizes progressive arguments that teaching should be reconnected with the emancipatory ambitions of education. In doing…

These instructional materials are designed to provide personnel developers and trainers with resources that can be used to improve the performance of paraeducators working in inclusive classrooms servicing school age students with disabilities. The competency-based program helps participants to learn skills they can apply immediately, to accept…