{"id":389,"date":"2018-05-16T15:53:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothermath.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2018-05-16T15:53:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:53:37","slug":"twenty-decisions-in-88-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/16\/twenty-decisions-in-88-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty decisions in 88 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-390 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/micro-image-001-300x112.png\" alt=\"tag\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/micro-image-001-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/micro-image-001-768x286.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/micro-image-001-1024x381.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/micro-image-001.png 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whoa. I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/20-judgments-a-teacher-makes-in-1-minute-and-28-seconds\/\">an article<\/a> on the Hechinger Report that got me thinking.<\/p>\n<p>In the article,\u00a0Deborah Loewenberg Ball shares a 1 minute 28 second long interaction between two African American female students, in which Ball identifies 20 micro-decisions the teacher present needed to make. Each decision had the power to increase or decrease the students&#8217; identity as mathematicians and thereby perpetuate race-based and gender-based stereotypes or not.<\/p>\n<p>20 decisions in 88 seconds!<\/p>\n<p>The interaction between the two girls is not unlike thousands upon thousands of interactions I presided over during my teaching tenure. I wonder how many of my micro-decisions supported my students rather than tear them down. I&#8217;m humbled right now.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to read the article here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/20-judgments-a-teacher-makes-in-1-minute-and-28-seconds\/\">http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/20-judgments-a-teacher-makes-in-1-minute-and-28-seconds\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa. I just read an article on the Hechinger Report that got me thinking. In the article,\u00a0Deborah Loewenberg Ball shares a 1 minute 28 second long interaction between two African American female students, in which Ball identifies 20 micro-decisions the teacher present needed to make. Each decision had the power to increase or decrease the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}