ANN Under 10 at COABE: Let’s Build Community (and Practice) Together - March 26, 2018 - 5:30-6:30 (MST)

Dear Heroes of Adult Numeracy and HSE Math Teaching!

You are all invited you to the second annual evening of ANN Under 10, a new event sponsored by the Adult Numeracy Network. This year's ANN Under 10 talks will be held on Monday, March 26th from 5:30-6:30 (MST) at the 2018 COABE Conference in Phoenix. Are you coming to COABE this year? If you are, come join us! Even if you are not, you can follow along from home on Twitter using the hashtag #ANNunder10 - we'll be live-tweeting the event. 

What is ANN Under 10?

The idea is simple. Adult numeracy teachers give a brief talk, each under 10 minutes. Each speaker tells a story and asks a question that is driving their teaching practice. Some may pose a question they have been working on for years, some may share something they’ve been working on for only a few months. But the questions they share with us are invitations to collaborate.

The goal of ANN under 10 is for teachers to continue to work on the ideas inspired by the talks. The talks themselves are wonderful, but the real work is what happens in the classrooms and practice of the teachers who watch them. In addition to raising questions, each talk ends with a specific call-to-action. For the talks that resonate with you, answer the call-to-action and report back on what happens. The talks are recorded and posted online here to allow even more adult educators to participate. We set up a simple platform to allow teachers to watch the videos and to communicate with each other. Each of those talks is a first step in a discussion about improving the math education of our amazing students.

To get a sense of how it works, here are the talks from the 2017 ANN Under 10. Watch them and join the conversation!

  • Lindsey Cermak (@CermakLindsey), is from the Minnesota Literacy Council and the Open-Door Learning Center-Northside. In a talk called Taking the Pressure off to Take the Pressure Off, Lindsey shares a personal revelation. She sees pressure crippling her students and realized in trying to be a perfect teacher, she was adding to that pressure. Drawing a distinction between perfection and excellence, Lindsey asks us to join her and consider our own practice. She invites us to model authentic success and failure in our classrooms, and asks us to be courageous and more vulnerable with our students. Click on her picture below to watch her talk:

  • Cynthia Bell, of the NY Literacy Assistance Center, gave a talk titled Formative Assessment and What’s Next, where she talked about her own developing work on both how to draw out and how to use student understanding in her teaching. Cynthia suggests that we are students of our students’ thinking and asks that we collect information and use that information to adjust our instruction. Let’s talk about how to get student feedback as we teach, how to act on what we learn and how to make sure the adjustments we make are producing the outcomes we’re looking for. Click on her picture below to watch her talk:

  • In What Counts? The Tyranny of HSE Testing, Charlie Brover and Solange Farina (@StregaSol), and their collective 60+ years of adult numeracy instruction, spoke about the effect the Common-Core aligned assessments have had on our students and our field. They make the case for not ceding our classrooms to the publishers and test-makers and help our students develop the math they need to be empowered members of our society. Click on the picture below to watch their talk:

  • In Crowdsourcing Curriculum, Eric Appleton (@eappleton) of the CUNY Adult Literacy and HSE Program in NYC shared his strategy for getting off the island of isolation where so many of us find ourselves teaching. Eric shares his own developing (and inspiring!) practice of few simple steps for collaborating with other teachers to build and improve our lessons. Click on the picture below to watch his talk:

yours in productive struggle, 

Mark

Mark Trushkowsky (@mtrushkowsky)

Math Professional Development Coordinator

CUNY Adult Literacy and HSE Program 

16 Court Street

Brooklyn, NY 11241

literacy.cuny.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

    will there be a way for people to participate from afar?     I'm excited and encouraged by these talks.  

   

Thank you for this question!

There are a few ways to participate from afar. 

  • To participate LIVE on Monday, March 26th from 5:30-6:30 (MST):
    • You can follow by going to my Twitter page - @mtrushkowsky. I am going to try to use Periscope, through my Twitter page - to broadcast the talks as they happen. This is something new we are trying out this year. 
    • You can also follow and join the discussion by using the hashtag #ANNunder10. We'll have some folks in the audience tweeting things that inspire them, 
  • To participate after the event:
    • Visit the Adult Numeracy Network's website to view the videos. Last years ANN Under 10 talks are up right now, and open to everyone. This year's talks will be added as soon as possible. Watch the talks again (and again). You can also make comments, ask questions, and share ideas in the comment section for each talk. And please, share the videos with your colleagues.

yours in productive struggle, 

Mark

 

Mark Trushkowsky Mathematics Professional Development Coordinator CUNY Adult Literacy & High School Equivalency Program www.literacy.cuny.edu  www.collectEdNY.org www.nyccami.org