News & Events

Conference Presentations 2006-07

Several Adult Learning Center staff members and teachers presented workshops at the Sharing Best Practices conferences organized by the City University of New York Office of Academic Affairs in March 2006, held at the CUNY Graduate Center. ALC presenters included Staff Developer Karen Griswold (“Exploring Food Labels with Students”), Director Paul Wasserman and GED Coordinator Azi Ellowitch (“Integrating GED Test Preparation with Thematic Interdisciplinary Curricula”), and Teacher Mike Dooley (“Using Biblical Stories as Primary Sources”).

NYCMP Director Suzanne Libfeld conducted Mathematics Leadership Institutes in Spring 2006 for assistant principals and staff developers from Region 2 in the Bronx, held at Lehman College and various school sites.

NYCWP Director Nancy Mintz presented “Collaborative Conversations: The Language of Equity,” at the National Writing Project Urban Sites Network Conference, San Diego, April 2006. NYCWP Director Nancy Mintz presented as part of a roundtable entitled, "Closing the Achievement Gap" at the National Writing Project Spring Conference, Washington, DC, April 2006.

Adult Learning Center Director Paul Wasserman and ALC Staff Developer Karen Griswold presented “Working Together on Health Literacy “ at the Bronx Health Literacy Collaborative Conference, Health Literacy Comes to the Bronx, May 2006.

NYCWP teacher-consultant Ed Osterman presented a three-day workshop, “Writing to Think and Learn Across the Curriculum,” at the Institute for Student Achievement Annual Conference, Rye, NY, June 2006.

Gina Moss and Alison Koffler-Wise, NYCWP teacher-consultants, presented a Gallery Walk on the Vietnam War at the New York State English Council Conference, Words-Purveyors of Hope, in Albany, NY, October 2006.

Joe Bellacero, NYCWP Associate Director presented the work of the NYCWP New Teacher Initiative in a workshop entitled, “Just Being Heard” at CCNY’s conference, The New Educator: Building and Sustaining Learning Communities in Challenging Times, New York City, October 2006.

NYCMP Director Suzanne Libfeld presented “Proportional Reasoning” at the Annual Conference of the Association of Math Teachers of New York State, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 2006.

NYCWP Director Nancy Mintz and members of the National Writing Project Urban Sites Leadership Team presented “Inquiry into Promising Practices to Address the Achievement Gap” at the NWP Annual Conference in Nashville, TN, November 2006. In addition, she and NYCWP Associate Director, Felicia George, along with members of the Prairie Lands Writing Project facilitated a discussion on “Developing Inservice Work in an Increasingly Digital Age” at the same conference.

Amanda Gulla, NYCWP teacher-consultant and English Education professor, will present findings from her Writing Project research, “Teacher Growth from the Grassroots: An Urban High School's Approach to Meeting the Literacy Needs of their Students,” at the Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, February 2007. Her co-presenters, all from Alfred E. Smith Career & Technical Education HS, will be Jennifer Ochoa, Alison Perrenod, and Stella Caragiorgis.

NYCMP Director Suzanne Libfeld and Project Director John Cafarella will present their work in teacher leadership at the annual conferences of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Atlanta, March 2007.

ILS Director of Research & Evaluation Roger Peach and ILS Associate Director Anne Campos will present “Challenges in Assessing the Impact of an Urban Professional Development Program” at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2007.

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