Join our Numeracy Webinar on Wednesday January 9th at 10am EST/ 3pm GMT! If a child isn’t in school, she is unlikely to learn to add or subtract, critical skills for life and employment. Liberia has a lot of kids who are missing out on learning math—and missing opportunities to learn and grow. Approximately 45% of Liberia’s population is school aged children. Over 100, 000 of these children are not in school. This means these children will never learn the basics of mathematics. The Global Partnership for Education’s 2012-13 Numeracy Webinar Series resumes TOMORROW with an exciting topic featuring Dr. David Chard, dean of the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University in the United States. Dr. Chard has done extensive work in Liberia working with teachers on early grade mathematics to ensure that children learn primary school mathematics and continue to stay in school. Dr. Chard will be presenting on his latest work “Developing Early Mathematics Instructional Programs and Training for Liberian School Teachers.” Liberia is a country in West Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire with a population of 3.7 million people. Liberia went through a 14-year civil conflict, which ended in 2003. Due to the civil conflict, close to 270,000 lives were lost. The civil conflict also disrupted the country’s education system and impacted thousands of children who missed out on starting school at the appropriate age. The country has had to slowly rebuild after the civil conflict Access the webinar through Adobe Connect: http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/numeracywebinar/ (Click on the “Enter as Guest” option, enter your full name in the text field and then click the “Enter Room” button.) Dr. Chard started his career as a classroom teacher in California, Michigan, and in the U. S. Peace Corps in Lesotho in southern Africa. Dr. Chard has been the principal investigator on several United States federal research projects including response to intervention (RTI), reading, reading comprehension instruction, and early childhood mathematics. The webinar series is part of a Community of Practice on Numeracy facilitated by the Global Partnership for Education. The community of practice is open to teachers, educators, practitioners, researchers, academics and others interested in numeracy. Join the community of practice on ‘Numeracy for Development’ here. All webinars are at 10am EST (3pm GMT) and typically fall on the first Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted. Here is the schedule for upcoming webinars: • February 6th, 2012 -Yasmin Sitabkhan, University of Berkeley – Bridging informal and formal knowledge in numeracy education to support high quality instruction • March 6th, 2013 – Emma Näslund-Hadley, Inter-American Development Bank – Inside the Math Classroom in Latin America and the Caribbean • April 3rd, 2013 – Abigail Bucuvalas, Sesame Workshop – Sesame Workshop’s numeracy work • May 1st, 2013 -Nadia Nosworthy, University of Western Ontario – The relationship between arithmetic achievement and symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing in primary school • June 5th, 2013 – Linda M. Platas, University of California Berkeley – ECD and numeracy • July 10th, 2013 – Steve Leinwand, American Institutes for Research – What we know about high quality instruction and need to see in all math classes If you are interested in giving a webinar, contact Deepa Srikantaiah at dsrikantaiah@globalpartnership.org We hope you’ll join us and get involved in helping children learn to add, subtract, learn and grow. By Deepa Srikantaiah