Free Resource: Slide Decks For Faculty Meetings & PLCs

by Jenna Laib

So you want to share slow reveal graphs with colleagues!

I am thrilled! While I’m the person that popularized the routine, I did not create it on my own, and I hope that it has a life beyond me and my collaborators. After I give a session — whether it’s at a conference or a private PD — there are typically a few requests for slides. I’m hesitant to give away my entire slide deck, but I also want to set all of you up for success.

I created Faculty Meeting & PLC slide decks for you! These are freely available, and openly licensed (CC-By 4.0). They aren’t intended to recreate the experience of a full PD, or to provide a framework for data literacy, as I do in my actual professional learning events. They’re a small snapshot — an invitation into the work.

These slide decks each:

• WHAT is a slow reveal graph?
  (By including a slow reveal graph that participants experience first-hand)
• WHY use a slow reveal graph?
  (A few key points about how slow reveal graphs build students’ data literacy and critical thinking skills, with an opportunity for participants to generate some of their own ideas about why)
• HOW do we facilitate a slow reveal graph?
  (A slide with key elements of facilitation, and a link to slowrevealgraphs.com)

Please do make these your own. You can copy, share, and change the work, but must give credit to the original creator (Jenna Laib/slowrevealgraphs.com) and provide a link.

When you’re facilitating, you might want to consider norms for how people participate, especially if they aren’t accustomed to doing math together as a faculty or learning community.

Please let me know if you have any feedback or questions! You can e-mail me at jenna at slowrevealgraphs.com