News and Events
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Grants, Awards, and Accolades
Grants
In FY 2009, the National Science Foundation awarded the ILS, in collaboration with Lehman’s Mathematics Department and Department of Middle & High School Education, a five-year grant for Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institutes (MTTI). The goal of this project is to improve student outcomes in mathematics (grade 6-12) by developing teacher leaders in Bronx middle and high schools. More information about MTTI may be found here.
In addition to its annual funding from the New York City Adult Literacy Initiative and the New York State Education Department, the Adult Learning Center received three grants for programs currently underway: NYSED EL Civics Workforce Investment Act (2008-2010) for work combining civics education with English language instruction, New York City Council Black Male Initiative (2007-2010) for structured tutoring, mentoring and counseling to help GED students prepare for the GED exam and transition to college, and CUNY Office of Academic Affairs (2008-2010) to support classes and counseling for college preparation and transition to college.
Awards and Accolades
In December 2009, Tech and Learning named Paul Allison, New York City Writing Project technology liaison and English teacher at East-West School of International Studies in Flushing NY, a 2009 Leader of the Year for his work on Youth Voices, a school-based social network for students, and Teachers Teaching Teachers, a weekly podcast on teaching and learning in 21st century classrooms. Read the article here.
Thanks to the guidance of Writing Project teacher-consultant Debra Freeman, the High School for Graphic Communication Arts literary magazine, Open Minds, was awarded a ranking of Excellent for the second consecutive year from NCTE’s Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines. Ms. Freeman serves as the faculty advisor to Open Minds.
Suzanne Libfeld, Director of the New York City Mathematics Project, is currently the President-elect of the New York State Association of Mathematics Supervisors (NYSAMS). She will assume the role of President at the annual Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York /NYSAMS Leadership Breakfast in November 2010.
Dr. Helene Silverman, long-time affiliated faculty of the NYC Mathematics Project and Professor of Early Childhood & Childhood Education, was inducted into the New York State Outstanding Mathematics Educators Hall of Fame on October 19, 2009 at the New York State Association of Mathematics Supervisors Hall of Fame Dinner. Dr. Silverman was recognized for her outstanding service to students, teachers and supervisors as a teacher, college professor, and service to many local, state and national professional organizations. We congratulate Dr. Silverman on her many outstanding achievements and on this special award.
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New Collaborations and Partnerships
Writing and Technology: The New York City Writing Project is in the first year of a two-year partnership with the NYC Department of Education’s Queens Office of Instructional Technology and Districts 27 and 29. This work, part of a Federal Title IID technology grant, focuses on building children’s literacy through the creation of nonfiction graphic novels.
Mathematics Education: The New York City Mathematics Project is a partner with District 30 in the New York State Education Department’s Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant Program, Title IIB. The purpose of the grant is to develop a community of life-long mathematics learners, and to build capacity within that community for continuous and sustainable growth in learning and teaching mathematics. The NYCMP is offering seminars three times a year focusing on NYS content and process strands, mathematics connections to cultural institutions, and the development of a website by each participant. A new NYSED MSP proposal for the next three years, which includes the work of the NYCMP, has been submitted.
School Partnerships: In 2009-2010 the NYC Mathematics Project is working with 25 New York City schools. The NYC Writing Project is working with 19 New York City schools. Most of these are multi-year collaborations.
State Writing Project Network: NYCWP is participating in the development of the Empire State Writing Project Network (ESWPN) an association of nine National Writing Project sites from across New York State. The most recent meeting was held in February 2010 at Canisius College in Buffalo. Teacher-consultants Debra Freeman and Joe Bellacero represented NYCWP.
Lehman Community Garden: Students and teachers at the Adult Learning Center are hatching plans to continue their participation in Lehman’s community vegetable garden this year. Working in collaboration with Lehman’s Health Sciences Department and staff from a variety of college departments and programs, the ALC played a lead role in initiating and maintaining the garden during the 2009 growing season. Last summer, a group of ALC students were immersed in food-related activities, tending and harvesting the garden while taking a nutrition and healthy cooking class provided by Cornell Cooperative Extension using the Health Science’s Department kitchen facilities.
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Recent publications by ILS staff and affiliated faculty (2008-2010)
Evaluation reports on ILS projects:
Carhill, Avary & Anne Campos. “Summer 2008 Institutes: Integrating Measurement, Geometry, Science and Technology.” Evaluation Report for NY State Department of Education. NY: Institute for Literacy Studies/New York City Mathematics Project, 2008.
Carhill, Avary & Anne Campos with Nancy Mintz & Marcie Wolfe. Creating Writing-Intensive School Environments. Berkeley, CA: National Writing Project, 2009.
Gningue, Serigne & Jay Gottlieb, Roger Peach & Anne Campos. Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institutes: Highlights from Year One Research and Evaluation. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 2010.
Monographs and resources:
Gallagher, Jan, and Felicia George eds., with Barbara Batton, Laura Schwartzberg & Kendra Sibley. Finding the Cracks: Making Time for Inquiry: Writings by Members of the Elementary Leadership Project of the New York City Writing Project. NY: Institute for Literacy Studies, 2009.
George, Felicia and Tyler Schmidt. Growing up with Good Books: Selecting and Using Literature in After-School Programs. NY: Institute for Literacy Studies, 2008.
Osterman, Edward. Supporting On-Site Teacher-Consultants: New York City Writing Project’s Community of Learners. National Writing Project at Work Monograph Series. Berkeley, CA: National Writing Project, 2008.
Articles and book chapters:
Gulla, Amanda, Limor Pinhasi-Vittorio, & Andrea Zakin. “Exploring Relationships Between Aesthetic Education and Writing Across the Curriculum Using Poetry.” Across the Disciplines, 6, April 2009.
Libfeld, Suzanne. “Technology in Mathematics.” Using Technology in 21st Century Schools. Eds, William Merriman, Ph.D. and Augustine Nicoletti, FSC. Washington, DC.: National Catholic Educational Association , 2009.
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Conference Presentations
ILS staff, consultants, and affiliated faculty are presenting at the following conferences in 2009-2010.
American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO. May 2010.
Serigne Gningue and Roger Peach, “Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching of Teachers on the Onset of the Second Stage of Their Teaching.”
National Reading Initiative Conference, What’s Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning, New Orleans, LA. March 2010.
Felisa Brunschwig, “Teaching, Learning, Blogging: Reflections from the Third Space On-line Study Group”
Diane Giorgi, “Identity Matters: Examining Issues of Identity”
Diane Giorgi, “Paths into Texts: Supporting Struggling Readers in Social Studies”
Nancy Mintz, table leader, discussion with keynote speaker Elizabeth Moje
Nancy Mintz, “Reading the Research: Re-conceptualizing the Literature Classroom as a Site for Learning Discipline-Specific Reading Strategies”
Association for Supervisors and Curriculum Developers, NYC Affiliate, February 2010.
Debra Freeman and Grace Raffaele, “Writing in the 21st Century Classroom: Voice Threads”
National Writing Project Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. November 2009.
Paul Allison, “Professional Learning in Social Media Spaces”
Elaine Avidon and Cecilia Espinosa, “A Close Look at Writing with Young Children”
Debra Freeman, Lona Jack-Vilmar, Alison Koffler-Wise, “Building Reflective Practice: Stories of Coaching and Facilitation in Large Urban Centers”
Felicia George, facilitator, “Writing in the Digital Age: Learning Environments and Student Writing“
Diane Giorgi and Thomas Murray, “Use of Writing in Content Areas”
Lona Jack-Vilmar and Linda Vereline, “Keeping the Focus on Writing in the Upper Elementary and Middle School Grades”
Sondra Perl, “Reading, Writing and Teaching the Holocaust”
Digital Is…: a National Writing Project Conference supported by the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Initiative, Philadelphia, PA. November 2009.
Paul Allison and Felicia George, “Looking at Digital Student Work”
Paul Allison and Chris Sloan, “Youth Voices: Student-to-Student Conversations and Collaborations”
With Different Eyes: What's Language Got to Do With It? University of California Los Angeles, November 2009.
Grace Raffaele, “Text Annotation in Content Areas: Developing Confident Readers and Writers”
New York State English Council, Albany, NY. October 2009.
Amanda Gulla, “Art and Imagination in the ELA Classroom”
Alison Koffler-Wise and Julie Miele , “The Cut- Up Poem,” and “Writing of Nature/The Nature of Writing”
Gina Moss, "No, No, No--What's Really Happening Is..."
Grace Raffaele, “Comics, Comic Books and Graphic Novels: The FUNdamentals of Narrative”
Hudson Valley Writing Project Annual Conference, State University of New York at New Paltz, October 2009.
Diane Giorgi, Inspiring a Passion for Learning: Meaningful Literacy in Social Studies (keynote), and Picture This: Using Photos to Help Students Read and Write about the Past (workshop)
National Reading Initiative Third-Space Project Launch, Denver, CO. September 2009.
Ed Osterman and Marcie Wolfe, co-facilitators.
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Events
Upcoming Conferences
The Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institutes (MTTI), a program funded by the National Science Foundation and Lehman College, CUNY, will host its Second Annual Teacher Leadership Conference at Lehman College on Saturday March 20, 2010. The program will include workshops highlighting exemplary classroom practice and a panel discussion moderated by Sonia Menendez, District 10 Superintendent, focusing on teacher leaders and leadership roles in the schools. The program begins at 8 AM with breakfast and registration and concludes at 1 PM after lunch.
For information or to register, contact Carl Curiale at mttidirector@aol.com or Rosalyn Krakowsky at rosalyn.krakowsky@lehman.cuny.edu.
The New York City Writing Project’s 12th Annual Teacher-to-Teacher Conference will take place at Lehman College on Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 8:30 am until 1:15 pm. Teachers from across the city are invited to participate in two workshops and hear keynote speaker Jacqueline Woodson, a noted author of books for children and young adults. Workshop selections include presentations by NYCWP teachers from all subject areas who will be sharing classroom practices. To register for the conference, download a brochure at http://nycwp.net. For more information contact Maria Rocchi at maria.rocchi@lehman.cuny.edu
The New York City Mathematics Project’s Nineteenth Annual Conference, “Summing Up The Differences,” will be held on May 1, 2010, 8:00 a.m. – 1:45 at Lehman College, Bronx, New York. Join your Pre-K-to-16 colleagues for a day of innovative professional development. For more information and to access a registration form, go to www.nycmp.org or contact Suzanne Libfeld at suzanne.libfeld@lehman.cuny.edu.
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Professional Development Institutes
NYC Writing Project Satellite Invitational Institute
The NYC Writing Project’s 2010 Satellite Invitational Institute in the teaching of writing for middle and high school teachers is meeting for seven sessions at the New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, from January 29th through June 12th. Contact: Joe Bellacero, jbellacero@aol.com
NYC Writing Project Summer Invitational Institute
The 2010 Summer Invitational Institute, a writing seminar for New York City teachers from all grade levels and subject areas, will meet at Lehman College from July 6th through July 29th, 9:00 am until 3:30 pm. Participants are selected through an application and interview process. An application is posted on http://nycwp.net. Contact: Maria Rocchi, maria.rocchi@lehman.cuny.edu.
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Tech Opportunities
Tech Thursday Meetings
A group of NYCWP teachers meets every other Thursday at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education in Astoria, NY to build curriculum using the Youth Voices social-networking platform as a place for their students to share writing and multi-media creations. Participation is open to any interested NYC Writing Project teacher. Contact: Paul Allison, allisonpr@gmail.com.
Teachers Teaching Teachers Webcast
Every Wednesday at 9:00 pm Eastern time, teachers from across the country sign-on to http://edtechtalk.com/live for Teachers Teaching Teachers, a live webcast about education and technology hosted by the NYCWP. Conversations focus on effective classroom practices and on improving teachers’ knowledge and use of new media. These conversations are preserved as podcasts and posted at http://teachersteachingteachers.org/. Contact: Paul Allison, allisonpr@gmail.com.
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