About
Dumela (or hi). My name is Tess Raser, and I'm a Chicago Public Schools Teacher. I'm currently a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching recipient and is doing research in Botswana. My research focuses on the ways in which math and science is taught from an Afrocentric perspective. My project's greater goal is to gather resources and make connections across the Diaspora, not just in Botswana, of Afrocentric practices and pedagogy, in the hopes of decolonizing school subjects.
Those of you reading this who aren't my mom (but maybe it's just her) might have seen my "viral" Wakanda Curriculum in early 2018. I'm really invested in finding ways of making Black children feel seen, as intellectuals and thinkers and in understanding that intellect/scientific thinking/nothing really originated in Europe, and ultimately, that we do not need nor have ever needed our colonizers.
Fun fact: Elephants have always been my favorite animal. I cried when I first saw one in the wild in Tanzania. Botswana has world's largest population of African elephants. Destiny.
Those of you reading this who aren't my mom (but maybe it's just her) might have seen my "viral" Wakanda Curriculum in early 2018. I'm really invested in finding ways of making Black children feel seen, as intellectuals and thinkers and in understanding that intellect/scientific thinking/nothing really originated in Europe, and ultimately, that we do not need nor have ever needed our colonizers.
Fun fact: Elephants have always been my favorite animal. I cried when I first saw one in the wild in Tanzania. Botswana has world's largest population of African elephants. Destiny.