Professional Development Opportunities in QL

Membership in Professional Organizations:

• National Numeracy Network
• The Special Interest Group of the MAA in QL – SIGMAA-QL
• International Study Group on Ethnomathematics

Opportunities to Create Curriculum:

• Mathematics Across the Community College Curriculum
• Winter Institute – January 12-15, 2007 & January 11-15, 2008
• Summer Institute – August 6-10, 2007
• Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum
• Minicourse at Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans, LA “A Tool to Implement QL:  Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum”– January 5 & 7, 2007

Opportunities to Attend Presentations:

• National Meeting of the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges in Cincinnati, OH – November 2-5, 2006
• Themed Session: “Inspirations from the MAC3 Project” - November 3

•    Joint Mathematics Meeting – New Orleans, LA - January 5-8, 2007
• Panel Discussion:  “Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy:  An Interdisciplinary Perspective.”
• Panel Discussion:  “Calculus, Liberal Arts and Quantitative Literacy.”

• Joint Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association with the National Numeracy Network & SIGMAA QL – Chicago, IL - April 4-7, 2007.
• Pre-conference workshop – “Models  & Strategies for Quantitative Literacy Across the Sociology Curriculum”
• Keynote speakers on “QL & Democracy” followed by networking reception
• Invited sessions on QL assessment, visual representations of data, teaching statistics for the social sciences
• Contributed paper session connecting quantitative literacy and sociology.

Opportunities to Publish Articles and Curriculum:

• The National Numeracy Network will be launching a peer-reviewed e-journal for work in QL in January, 2008.  Look for submission requests in 2007.

• The Center for Mathematics and Quantitative Education at Dartmouth (MQED) supports the open publishing of implemented QL curriculum.  Contact Director - Kim Rheinlander for details – Kim.Rheinlander@Dartmouth.edu.