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In this article, we elaborate on the following goals that we have for developing caring and socio-politically aware beginning teachers of mathematics and the strategies that we use to reach them: 1) Understand what it means to achieve equity, access, and empowerment in a mathematics classroom; 2) Develop equitable pedagogical strategies, 3) Examine and overcome barriers related to student engagement and achievement, 4) Confront negative beliefs about students from different race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender, ability; and sociolinguistics groups and move forward in a positive manner, 5) Develop an advocacy stance.