Program at a Glance
A Message from the Organizing Committee
Conference Highlights
Conference Agenda
Pre-Conference Workshop
Keynote Speakers
Featured Speakers
Your Feedback
A Message from the Organizing Committee
The Organizing Committee is proud to bring to the school administrators, teachers, college faculty, college education mayors, community leaders, and non-profit organizations of North Carolina an exciting program with the participation of successful practitioners at the national, state and county level in ESL programs, self-esteem development, parental involvement, and linguistically/diverse populations as a positive resource.
We are excited to have Jo Gusman, M.A., who provides educators, students, parents, and policy makers with professional development language and literacy seminars throughout the world. She began her teaching career in 1974 as a bilingual instructional assistant, and later attended California State University, Sacramento where she received her Bilingual Cross-Cultural teaching credential and Masters. Jo was a Bilingual Education teacher for many years, and in 1981 her career led her to the nationally known Newcomer School, where Jo worked in a multilingual setting with refugee and immigrant K-8 students.
In addition to the conference, this year we will also be offering a Pre-Conference Workshop on Friday, October 14th.
Pre-Conference Workshop:
"Accelerating Your ESL Students' Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development And Reading Fluency"
By: Jo Gusman
Keynote Presentation:
"Every Teacher - A Teacher of English Language Learners"
By: Jo Gusman
We look forward to seeing you at both the 2011 Pre-Conference Workshops and Hispanic Achievement Conference on October 14th and 15th.
Sincerely,
Conference Organizing Committee
Conference Highlights
Target Audience and Participants
- Superintendents
- Assistant Superintendents
- Principals
- Assistant Principals
- Counselors
- Teachers
- Other Administrators
- Community Leaders
- Non-profit Organizations
- College Faculty responsible for training in the field of Education
- College Education Majors
Registration Guidelines:
Registration to the conference (includes lunch):
Early Registration deadline September 16, 2011: $75.00*
Regular Registration after September 16, 2011: $90.00*
Undergraduate Students: $50.00
Registration for the Pre-conference workshop:
Early Registration deadline September 16, 2011: $90.00*
Regular Registration after September 16, 2011: $105.00*
Undergraduate Students: $70.00*
*Workshop Fee includes Seminar Resource Handbook, "Foundation - Frameworks - Tools: Accelerating Your English Language Learners Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development and Reading Fluency"
By, Jo Gusman
* Unless registration is cancelled by Friday, September 30, 2011, registrants will be responsible for the workshop fee. Cancellations should be made via phone only. All paid fees are non-refundable.
You can submit your registration form electronically (preferred) or by regular mail.
If you are paying by check or money order, please send registration payment with a copy of your registration to:
NC Society of Hispanic Professionals
Hispanic Achievement Conference
8450 Chapel Hill Road, Suite 209
Cary, NC 27513
If you are paying online via paypal, submit your registration form as you normally would and the confirmation screen will have a Paypal option.
Cancellations:
All registrants are responsible for associated fees unless registration is cancelled by September 30, 2011. Cancellations should be made via phone only.
For more information about registration or questions, please call, send a fax or an e-mail to: mailbox@TheNCSHP.org, Phone: (919) 467-8424 Fax: (919) 469-1785Accommodations:
A block of rooms will be reserved at the Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel and Conference Center located at 1707 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27605. Rooms can be reserved at the discounted rate of $89 for a single/double. In order to take advantage of this special rate you must make your reservation no later than Thursday, September 22, 2011. After the cut-off date, no reservations will be guaranteed at the special group rate.
To make a reservation call the hotel directly at (919) 828-0811 and be sure to say you are with the NC Society of Hispanic Professionals block.
Pre-Conference Workshop
Friday, October 14, 2011
"Accelerating Your ESL Students' Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development And Reading Fluency"
By: Jo Gusman
Designed for Educators Serving Grades 3-8 Classroom Teachers, ESL Resource Teachers, Reading Specialists, Instructional Assistants, Student Teachers, Teacher Trainers, and Administrators. Jo Gusman will share with you dozens of practical research-based ideas for strengthening comprehension, increasing vocabulary development, improving fluency, and content area reading skills. You will experience specific, classroom-proven activities to help you better support the wide range of ESL students in your classroom.
You will learn how to:
- Understand Implications of the Most Current Reading Research As It Applies to ESL Students’ Literacy Instruction
- Explore Skills Development Techniques Based on Reading First Research and Legislation to Increase Comprehension, Fluency, and Vocabulary Development
- Expand Your Collection of Instructional Strategies for Processing Narrative and Expository Text
- Integrate Comprehension Instruction Into Your Directed Instruction Time
- Implement Effective Teaching Strategies that Promote Content Area Literacy for Your ESL Students
- Teach New Vocabulary and Strengthen Word Study Skills
Conference Agenda
Hispanic Achievement Conference Workshop Agenda
Friday, October 14, 2011
Workshop Session: 8:30am-10:00am
Break: 10:00am-10:15am
Workshop Session: 10:15am-11:30am
Lunch: 11:30am-12:30pm
Workshop Session: 12:30pm-2:00pm
Hispanic Achievement Conference Agenda
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Registration: 7:30am - 8:30am
Opening Ceremony/Keynote Speaker: 8:30am - 10:00am
Exhibit Visit: 10:05am - 10:20am
Session 1: 10:20am -11:10am
Session 2: 11:15am - 12:05am
Lunch: 12: 10pm -12:55p
Exhibit Visit: 1:00pm - 1:15pm
Closing Ceremony/Panel: 1:15pm -2:00pm
Conference Keynote Speaker
Jo Gusman, M.A-internationally recognized author, ESL teacher, and outstanding consultant to teachers who work with ESL students.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION "Every Teacher- A Teacher of English Language Learners"
Jo Gusman, M.A., grew up in a Spanish speaking farm-working family who experienced the challenges that non-English speakers face in the United States. Based on her childhood experiences as a “limited English speaker”, she truly understands the complexities and multiple variables that surround the English language learner. Jo began her teaching career in 1974 as a bilingual instructional assistant, and later attended California State University, Sacramento where she received her Bilingual Cross-Cultural teaching credential and Masters. Jo was a Bilingual Education teacher for many years, and in 1981 her career led her to the nationally known Newcomer School, where Jo worked in a multilingual setting with refugee and immigrant K-8 students. It is there where she developed her many brain-based ESL strategies. Because of her extensive experience and exceptional work with English language learners, she has been featured on national television, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including President Ronald Reagan’s recognition for teaching excellence. Presently, Jo provides educators, students, parents, and policy makers with professional development language and literacy seminars throughout the world.
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Featured Speakers
- Dr. Maria Teresa U. Palmer - Director of Multicultural Student Center North Carolina A&T University. "Redefining our Roles to Insure the Success of Immigrant Students: What Teachers, Counselors and Administrators must Do." - This workshop will help educators think of the different needs that immigrant students bring to the school community and of the role they can and must play in meeting these needs. The presentation is based on a doctoral and post-doctoral research conducted in North Carolina and in a thorough study of research conducted in the US and Canada in the last 20 years, with particular attention to the work of Jim Cummins, Lisa Delpit and Angela Valenzuela.
- Donna Weaver - Spanish Services Coordinator and College Resource Volunteer - College Foundation of North Carolina. “Connecting ALL students to College and Careers.” – This presentation will help participants acquire strategies, ideas and resources using CFNC’s free tools, as well as information from other non-profit organizations, to help students overcome barriers in connecting to college and careers. It is time to dispel common myths forever and explore real options for college access, achievement and success.
- Dr. Andrew Behnke - Professor - North Carolina State University. "Effectively Engaging Latino Parents in Todays Busy World". This presentation will outline 7 key steps to engage Hispanic/Latino parents in their children’s education. Participants will also learn how to put in practice “the 5 P’s of Personalismo” to assure parents feel comfortable participating in activities at school and engaging in educational enrichment at home.
- Channa Pickett - Senior Program Coordinator for Community Outreach, Engagement & Evaluation - Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, Duke University. “Visions: Affecting Hispanic Student Achievement through Teacher Action Research.” The presentation will explore how a partnership between Duke University and Durham Public Schools is supporting teacher leadership and professional development throguh collaborative action-research. Presenter will share how teachers are creating change within their classrooms and schools by harnessing the power of action-research to improve Hispanic student achievement.
- Jennifer Pearsall - ESL Director - Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. "Boosting Academic Rigor for Heritage Speakers". This presentation objective is to show that we must challenge our heritage Spanish speakers to perform at their highest levels, to use and build upon the resources they bring with them. It is the right thing to do! Speakers will define academic rigor, discuss how the Spanish for Native Speakers classes are closing the gap and helping students to succeed in challenging AP classes. This session will also provide an overview of resources and classroom vignettes.
- Justine LaMantia, 8th Grade Language Arts Teacher & Diana Franklin, Instructional Facilitator - Sherwood Githens Middle School, “Building Community Through Communication: The Process and Interventions of Teacher Research.” This presentation will focus on how two teachers used the process of collaborative action research to implement effective change their school. Diana Franklin, instructional facilitator, and Justine La Mantia, 8th Grade teacher from Sherwood Githens Middle School in Durham, NC will explain how they are currently implementing collaborative action research to foster a Latino community at their school. Those who attend will take away knowledge of conducting collaborative teacher research and strategies for building community.
- Jen Painter & Stephanie Blochowiak - Jordan High School, “What Can We Do to Help You Learn? : Responding to the Needs of Latino Students in the Classroom." In this this presentation, a research of two high school teachers will be shared; they were troubled by the lack of success of native-born and generation 1.5 youth in their school in small focus groups, they asked students from this population to identify teacher behaviors that they found helpful for their learning, as well as those that did not help them. They are in process of sharing this data with their school colleagues, with the goal that teachers increase or adopt behaviors that positively influence student learning. The students identified both instructional strategies and behaviors in the affective domain that they found contributed to their success in a class.
- Felipe Carrera Aguayo - Director of Community Affairs Department, Consulate General of Mexico in Raleigh, "Educational Programs and Transfer Documents for Binational Migrant Students". This presentation will address the educational opportunities available to the Spanish speaking community and introduce the transfer documents to parents of Mexican origin.
- Ana Bolchalk - Director of the Good Stewards of Environment Program, NCSHP, "Using Field Trips, After School Programs and Community Resources to Inspire your Students to Learn". In this presentation, the Director of the Good Stewards of the Environment Science Program for the NCSHP, will share the resources she used for the program and in her classrom to inspire students to learn. By attending the presentation you will gain information on after school programs, speakers and other community resources that you can use in your area to help your students become interested in science.
- Deborah L. Trauley - ESL/English Literature Teacher, Wake County Public Schools, Cary High, "Using SIOP Methods to Make Middle English Literature Comprehensive to ESL Students". This presentation is to share ideas with ESL or regular classroom literature teachers who may be struggling with ways to effectively reach students with varied second language mastery levels-especially with the challenges that middle or older English texts present to any teacher or any student. Implicit in the presentation is the notion that SIOP techniques and methods can effectively increase accessibility of texts to second language learners in particular, but can be helpful to all students.
- Deborah Wilkes - ESL Teacher & Molly Polston - Academic Intervention Teacher, Lee County Schools, "SIOP Strategies for Teaching Content to English Language Learners". In this presentation, the goal is to share SIOP strategies that were developed in content classrooms and that have facilitated comprehensible input and academic achievement among the ELLs.
- Helga Fasciano - Section Chief K-12 Program Areas, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, "Specialized Spanish Language Programs and Resources in North Carolina's Public Schools". This presentation is to share with the educators the many specialized programs for Spanish speaking students in North Carolina's public schools that are designed to help students develop their communication skills in Spanish and honor their home culture. Dual language/immersion, who will speak about their history, impact, and future.