The October Numeracy webinar will focus on Sesame Street: Promoting Early Math for Little Learners Around the World. The speakers are Abigail Bucuvalas, Director of Curriculum and Content at Sesame Workshop in New York, and Autumn Zitani, Director of Content in Sesame Workshop’s Curriculum and Content Department.

The Sesame Workshop webinar will focus on numeracy in non-formal learning environments, with an emphasis on:

1. An overview of multimedia math content for preschoolers focusing on how the newest Sesame television content was developed, including how the country/context impact content decisions and development.
2. A discussion of how developmental considerations and milestones impact content decisions and development, including how Sesame’s formative research processes influence decisions about how different math concepts are represented.
3. A discussion of how math learning objectives are integrated into broader STEM  and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) on the US show Sesame Street.

The webinar will emphasize the development of math content for pre-primary learners, with the caveat that early primary grade children frequently watch the Sesame co-productions in developing countries. The presenters will discuss the challenge of adapting best practices for diverse contexts, including the adaptation of the US educational framework for global use.  

Abigail Bucuvalas is a Director of Curriculum & Content at Sesame Workshop in New York, NY. She works on a wide variety of television and print content for Sesame-coproductions in Nigeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, and Spanish-speaking Latin America. She has worked on developing multimedia numeracy content in Nigeria and Spanish-speaking Latin America. Abby has an EdD in Health Education and an EdM in International Educational Development from Columbia University Teachers College.

Autumn Zitani is the Director of Content in Sesame Workshop’s Curriculum and Content Department. Autumn has been with Sesame Workshop for over 10 years and is responsible for the development and implementation of Sesame Street’s whole child curriculum. In her role, she reviews, creates and integrates educational and developmentally appropriate content across Sesame Workshop’s media platforms, such as television, digital media, outreach and licensed products. She received her Master’s Degree in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Topic: Monthly Numeracy Community of Practice Webinar
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Time: 10:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
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