The Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA) are pleased to host the fourth annual Florence Nightingale Day. This event will be held online for middle and high school students (grades 8-12) hosted by Ohio State University. This event is open to all students in the US and internationally.
What
A celebration of women in statistics and data science! Join us for the Florence Nightingale Day to discover the opportunities for careers in statistics and data science, to do fun data activities, and to develop connections. This event is free to students.
Who
All middle and high school students ( at least 13 years old and before college/university) are welcome! This event is open to all students in the US and internationally. Women and underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to participate.
When
Saturday, October 23, 2021 from 10am-3:00pm EST (New York Time)
There will also be a new issue of Statistics Teacher available at www.statisticsteacher.org in the next month and an announcement about the free new book, Statistics and Data Science for Teachers.
We hope you will download the new Pre-K-12 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education II (GAISE II) Report: A Framework for Statistics and Data Science Education at www.amstat.org/education/gaise. The report is free to download or a hard copy is available via Amazon.
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In case you haven’t heard, the annual face to face NCTM event in Atlanta was recently canceled due to the rising cases of COVID. ACTM recently moved their face to face session from face to face in Oxford, AL to virtual. I hope you are each staying safe.
July 9 and July 16 Productive Struggle Virtual Workshops Supporting students’ productive struggle in a post-COVID learning environment is an essential teaching practice in addressing unfinished learning as described in the American Rescue Plan. By engaging in productive struggle, students learn to persevere through challenging problems to reach successful outcomes. Learn more and register.
July 13–15 and July 20–22 Virtual Statistics Workshops Participants will discuss and apply the data analysis, data science, and statistical concepts embodied in the NCTM Catalyzing Change books and the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) Pre-K–12 Curriculum Framework. Learn more and register.
Hello ACTM past speakers, conference attendees, and current members!The ACTM Executive Board of Directors has set our fall forum dates of Nov 3-4, 2021. The conference will take place Wed-Thur at the Oxford Civic Center, Oxford, AL.This email is seeking speaker proposals to begin creating our fall forum program. We are operating slightly behind our normal schedule, so we asking for speaker proposals in the next two months, September 1st at the latest to guarantee consideration for the program.Use the link Speaker Submission Button to submit a session proposal. THANK YOU! See you in the fall!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer break. If you didn’t know, the NCTM National Annual conference is in Atlanta this year. This is extremely close to the EACTM service area. I hope you will make plans to attend to increase your own knowledge. It is our hope that this translates to our practice which in turn increases learning in our classroom. Please consider this professional development experience: https://www.nctm.org/annual/.
We would like to enlist your assistance with a new project that mathematics education and mathematics faculty at Auburn University are designing to address the continuing shortage of mathematics teachers in our region. The Developing, Recruiting, and Empowering Alabama Mathematics (DREAM-Math) Teacher Project will encourage, recruit, and prepare motivated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates and professionals in our region to become secondary (grades 6-12) mathematics teachers.
DREAM-Math scholars would pursue a master’s degree in secondary mathematics education leading to certification as a mathematics teacher. The program will include at least 36 credit hours and can be completed in 4 semesters (14 months). The DREAM-Math teacher project is intended for STEM majors with at least 15 hours of mathematics courses completed, including Calculus I, II, and III. We anticipate the program beginning Summer 2022. We are also pursuing funding to provide support for candidates in the program. We are currently trying to gauge the interest in a program of this kind. If you are aware of any potential candidates for the DREAM-Math program, or are willing to help recruit candidates or to provide other support for its development, please complete this survey — https://aub.ie/dream-math . Also, please forward the link to others who may be interested. Thanks for your help!
The DREAM-Math Team
W. Gary Martin, Marilyn Strutchens, Huajun Huang, Hans-Werner van Wyk, and Kathryn Early
The NCTM Nominations and Elections Committee is pleased to announce the candidates for the 2021 Board of Directors election.
Candidates for President-Elect (one will be elected)
Frederick L. Dillon, Lesley University, Strongsville, Ohio
Kevin Dykema, Mattawan Middle School, Mattawan, Michigan
Candidates for Director, High School or Middle School Level (one will be elected)Maci Nelson, Robert Eagle Staff Middle School, Seattle, Washington
Dianna M. Sopala, Northern Valley Regional High School, Demarest, New Jersey
Candidates for Director, At-Large (three will be elected)
Kyndall Brown, California Mathematics Project, Los Angeles, California
Zandra de Araujo, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Ruth Heaton, Teachers Development Group, West Linn, Oregon
Michael D. Steele, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Paola Sztajn, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Cathery Yeh, Chapman University, Orange, California
We hope that you and your members will vote in the election, which will be conducted online from February 15 through April 1.
To ensure strong candidates in the future, we encourage you and your members to nominate eligible candidates for the 2022 election. Nominations will be accepted online from July 15 to September 1, 2021, for the following positions:
Board of Director: Four (4) positions are available. An individual must have been a member of the Council continuously during the preceding three (3) years and must have served on a major committee of the Council, in another leadership role in the Council, or in an Affiliate leadership role.
To ensure balanced representation as required by the NCTM Bylaws, the need to fill specific Board positions for the 2022 election will be determined after the 2021 election. You can also help the Council by nominating promising members for leadership roles on committees, task forces, editorial panels, and conference support.
We are planning a Zoom group discussion on Thursday, March 4 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Our special guests are Hollylynne Lee (Director), Gemma Mojica (Co-director), Emily Thrasher and Greg Ray who are part of the Hub for Innovation and Research in Statistics Education group of Statistics Education (HI-RiSE) which is a group of statistics teacher educators, curriculum developers, and researchers from NC State University that conduct multiple projects to help support the teaching and learning of statistics and data science. They will be presenting on Investigating Real, Multivariate Data with CODAP.
Get ready to learn about what you can do in your classrooms to help excite and motivate your students to learn with and from data. They will engage us in data and statistics tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving using real multivariate datasets with a free online data visualization and analysis tool, CODAP. Free, online resources will be shared. Joining from a laptop or tablet will be best for this session.
We are going to use the Zoom registration for the RSVP for this meet-up. Please click on the link below to register and Zoom will automatically send you the access info.
East Alabama Council for Teachers of Mathematics 