$1.2 million targets math, literacy

he New York State Education Department has awarded a $1.2 million grant to the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development to help further math and literacy teaching and learning initiatives. Awarded over a five-year period, the grant is designed to help connect Rochester city schools with a network of research-based models and educators.

Judith Fonzi, director of the Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform, and Joanne Larson, associate professor and chair of teaching and curriculum, are leading the project, which involves the support and expertise of several Warner faculty and doctoral students.

The literacy component of the project is directed by Larson and will focus efforts at Rochester City School Number 28. The project will expand to secondary schools with the addition of Meg Callahan, assistant professor, and Bronwen Low, assistant professor, both in teaching and curriculum.

Warner doctoral student Katie Orem, who is directing the mathematics component, works with teachers and elementary students at Schools 28, 3, 41, 50, and 58. With the addition of doctoral student Joann Bell, the project will expand to include secondary schools.

These collaborations between the Warner School and the Rochester City School District seek to implement a schoolwide systemic approach to improve practices, including long-term sustained professional development. The mathematics model will also include mathematics instruction for parents and other community members.

This project builds on and extends the work of several previous math and literacy reform initiatives by Warner School faculty and doctoral students that were funded with multiple grants by the National Science Foundation and by New York State.

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