Counted Out Film Screening
On March 21, 2026, Teaching for Change’s D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice, along with the Coalition for DC Public Schools and Communities (C4DC) and Ward 6 Public School Parent Organization (W6PSPO) held a screening of the film Counted Out by Vicki Abeles.
Counted Out, dedicated to SNCC veteran and Algebra Project founder Bob Moses, shatters misconceptions about the role math plays in our lives, who can learn it, and how it should be taught. In 2025, students from Carlos Rosario PCS screened the film and visited with Abeles as part of Filmfest DC.
Held at the Northeast Library, parents, young people, and educators came together for 90-minute screening followed by a panel discussion moderated by McKinley Tech High School math and personal finance teacher David Tansey. Featured panelists were:
Dr. Tamkya Morant, assistant principal of Bruce-Monroe @ Parkview, Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney Fellow, and member D.C. Area Educators for Social Justic
Alfons I. Prince, middle school math teacher and newly announced assistant principal of Capital City Public Charter schools
Dr. Kourtney Miller, assistant principal of HD Woodson STEM High school and director of Secondary Math for DCPS
The panel discussed the current state of math experiences in D.C. classrooms, sharing examples of how they are elevating math literacy in their schools. As Dr. Morant states, she believes her school community and all of us have the power to be “capable mathematicians.”
The discussion and rich question & answer period was so fruitful that event organizers had to cut off the growing number of raised hands in order to meet the commitment of the library space reservation, which showed that we can all be math people with the right attention and intention.
