The Trainers
In February of 1997 seven teacher-trainers, under the leadership of Margaret Hampstead, then director of the Central New York Staff Development Consortium, met to begin the development of numeracy workshops designed to help adult educators throughout the state implement the New York State Standards as well as the skills and competencies identified in the SCANS (Dept. of Labor’s Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills). These workshops were also designed to assist adult educators in understanding the implications, for mathematics instruction, of the research done by the Adult Numeracy Practitioners Network (ANPN) as was reported in their publication, A Framework for Adult Numeracy Standards: The Mathematical Skills and Abilities Adults Need to be Equipped for the Future. The trainers represented five of the ten New York State Adult Education Staff Development Consortia, Chip Moulton from Central NY, JoAnn Belcoure from the North Country, Judy Reagan and Marcia Stekloff from Western NY, Claire Ryan from the Capital Region, Nora Chomicz and Eileen Simons from Long Island. All are enthusiastic numeracy practitioners.
Currently working on this Web Page project are:
Nora Chomicz, Consultant Adult Education. Retired after thirty-three years teaching in and coordinating ABE/GED/ESOL programs for the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) of Nassau County.
Chip Moulton, teacher of college preparatory biology and algebra as well as GED mathematics for the Syracuse Educational Opportunity Program.
Eileen Simons, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics Instruction at Hofstra University. Eight years of experience as teacher of ABE/GED.
Marcia Stekloff, Teacher of GED and ABE for Monroe #1 BOCES for the past 11 years. Area of expertise- mathematics.