Protocol 1 – CoLearn

Identify Inequitable Patterns of Student Participation

Protocol 1

This introductory protocol guides teachers to collaboratively identify inequitable patterns of student participation in their classroom.

Click on the images below to see the 2024 draft of this protocol.

This protocol will be finalized in fall 2025.

Notice, huddle, & make decisions together during instructions.

Step 1

Observe & take notes.

Step 2

Huddle during the lesson & share what we’ve noticed.

Step 3

Decide what to do next, based on what we noticed.

Prepare to co-learn about equity-oriented instruction.

STEP 1: Consider the following: How can we authentically center and leverage mathematical contributions from culturally and linguistically diverse students to disrupt inequitable participation patterns? What does this question make us think about when we reflect on our class and today’s lesson?

Choose a focal question to support your co-learning:

1. Who is expressing their ideas? What are they talking about? Whose ideas are not being heard? Why?
2. What assumptions are we making about why students are participating in the ways they are?
3. What partial understandings do students offer? How are their ideas mathematically rich & relevant?
4. What mathematical strategies & practices are we privileging? Why?
5. How are students interacting with one another? Who is included? Excluded?

STEP 2: Plan how we will notice issues of equity during the lesson and make instructional decisions together:

Debrief after the lesson & make new plans.

Discuss our huddles & the decisions we made as a result.
How did our decisions shape opportunities for equitable student participation and learning?
What new ideas or questions do we have about equity-oriented instruction?
What do we want to try next? What other learning/resources do we need to support our work?

Please email kulow@pdx.edu for more information about our project.

Please explore our site to learn about our protocols and think about how you might use them in your own work as a teacher candidate, mentor teacher, or teacher educator!