Patricia Buenrostro
Assistant Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Contact
Building & Room:
ETMSW 1224
Address:
1040 W. Harrison St.
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About
Patty Buenrostro (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at UIC. As a native Chicagoan and former secondary mathematics educator, coach and professional development provider for over 20 years, she has collaborated to create counter-cultural spaces that support Black and Latiné students’ positive academic, cultural and political identities. These experiences shape her research interests: student-teacher relationality, teachers’ orientations towards developing students’ collective consciousness, and justice-oriented pedagogies. She is a task force member of the Sustainable Community Schools’ Taskforce, a joint endeavor between the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers’ Union, supporting the development of strong, neighborhood schools in the most under-resourced communities.