Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los
Angeles
M.A.T., Occidental College
A.B., Occidental College
Dr. Terry is an
Assistant Professor of Education. He completed his doctoral studies in
Education with an emphasis in Urban Schooling at UCLA’s Graduate School
of Education & Information Studies. As a former classroom teacher, Dr.
Terry’s research focuses on the creation of ‘counter-space’ as an
alternative environment for the mathematics education of high
school-aged Black males. Within these spaces, he explores the impact of
critical literacies on the formation of Black males’ racial and
mathematics identities, as well as their social agency within a context
of participatory action research (PAR). As an African American male who
has successfully navigated K-16 mathematics curricula, Dr. Terry brings
to his research a passion for the teaching/learning of mathematics, as
well as a deep experiential understanding of the day-to-day struggle of
someone who is not expected to achieve in academically-rigorous
settings. His experience teaching in urban space provides the foundation
from which he currently works with pre-service and in-service educators
who are engaging students across greater Los Angeles and in Southern
California with socially- and racially-just pedagogies.
