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ALAS
ALAS will launch a brand new website this Friday, January 10th, 2020! Thank you for your patience this week while we work to launch the new site to improve our member and partner experience online.
ALAS
Join ALAS as we partner with FETC to host our 2nd Annual Pre-Conference Partner/Match Sessions on January 13-14, 2020 in Miami, Florida!
Our Partner/Match Sessions are designed to provide one-on-one meetings between ALAS education leaders and solution providers to discuss areas of interest for the upcoming year. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to; Curriculum and Instruction, STEAM, Digital Content/Virtual Reality, Online Resources, Facilities, Security, Finance, Leadership, Professional Development, Assessment, English Learners, Data Management and more!
ALAS Members: For your time and commitment, ALAS will cover your room and board for one night and provide current ALAS National members with a $250.00 scholarship to be awarded to an outstanding teacher or student in your school district.
State affiliate groups with 5 or more attendees will receive $2,500 per affiliate, groups with 10 or more attendees will receive $5,000 per state affiliate.
As an ALAS member you get a FREE Basic Pass to FETC that gives you access to:
- 6 dedicated tracks, including the Future of Ed Tech Administrator track
- 3 dynamic Keynote presentations with Daniel Pink, Justin Shaifer and the expert panel of Tech Share LIVE!
- 380+ sessions exploring current and emerging technologies, as well as best practices to plan, integrate and manage it all
- A look into the growing world of esports and how to set up and maintain the technology for this in-demand program.
(Workshops require an additional registration fee.)
FETC® is the premier ed tech conference for administrators, principals and teams!
The Future of Education Technology® Conference is tailored to meet the needs of district administrators, principals and their teams. As a district or school leader, you are always seeking technology-driven solutions, strategies and insights to help you carry out your role. FETC® can provide you with the right resources, experts and answers to do just that.
To get your FREE Basic Pass be sure to register with Promo Code ALAS2020. Interested in upgrading your pass to attend intensive, 2-hour workshops? Use the same Promo Code and just pay the difference for your selected pass rate! Promo code valid for ALAS members only.
| ALAS 2020 State Affiliates Leadership Conference
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ALAS
Calling all ALAS State Affiliates to join us for our 2020 State Affiliates Leadership Conference!
2020 SALC will be hosted by our amazing partners — Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona March 6-8, 2020!
More details will be announced in the coming weeks!
Renaissance Learning
Research shows that a child’s third-grade reading level is closely related to their future educational performance. That makes it important to understand performance indicators and skills associated with your K–3 students’ reading proficiency to set them up for success—now and for the future. Let’s make sure we catch all struggling students—across grades and subject areas—and ensure that every student has the opportunity to become a strong, independent reader. Learn more
ALAS
A special thank you to our keynote speakers and members for inspiring all of us to continue our work to achieve equity in education for all students! Every year we gather for our national education summit to bring together brilliant minds and exchange ideas and best practices on how to be the best leaders we can be. ALAS thanks everyone who joined us this year, and we invite you all to join us next year in Portland, Oregon, October 7-10, 2020!
A special thank you to our partners for supporting ALAS and our work to achieve equity in education!
| Meet the ALAS Board of Directors
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President:
Ana V. Ortiz
Retired Superintendent
Oxford Public Schools
Oxford, Connecticut
(Term expires 10/20) |
President Elect:
Dr. Francisco Duran
Chief Equity Officer;
Virginia State Board of
Education Member
Fairfax County Public Schools
Falls Church, Virginia
(Term expires 10/20) |
Treasurer – Director
Region 2 Northwest:
Dr. Gustavo Balderas
Superintendent
Eugene School District 4J
Eugene, Oregon
(Treasurer Term expires 10/20,
Regional Term expires 10/22) |
Secretary – Region
5 Midwest:
Dr. Charles Johns
Superintendent
Glenbrook High
School District 225
Glenview, Illinois
(Secretary Term Expires 10/20,
Region 5 Term Expires 10/21) |
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Director – Region I West:
Dr. Ruth Perez;
Superintendent
Paramount
Unified School District, CA
(Term expires 10/21) |
Director – At Large
Higher Education:
Dr. Maria Ott
Executive in Residence
USC School of Education
Los Angeles, California
(Term expires 10/21) |
Director – Region 3
Southwest:
Dr. Lily DeBlieux
Superintendent
Pendergast Elementary
School District
Phoenix, Arizona
(Term expires 10/21) |
Director – Region 6
Northeast:
Dr. Alex Marrero
Assistant Superintendent
East Ramapo Central
School District
Spring Valley, New York
(Term expires 10/22) |
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Director – Region 4:
Juan E. Cabrera Jr. JD.
Superintendent
El Paso Independent
School District
El Paso, Texas
(Term expires 10/22) |
Director at Large:
Dr. Danna Diaz
Superintendent of Schools
Reynolds School District
Reynolds, OR
(Term expires 10/22) |
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ALAS currently has 17 State Affiliates across the nation. Their primary mission is to increase the support and networking for Latinx leaders as well as advocate for all students, especially the underrepresented Latinx students in their state communities. They are an extension of ALAS by which they serve to build a solid network of influence and advocacy at the national level.
Learn more about our State Affiliates
ALAS
Stay up to date with all ALAS happenings by joining ALAS every third Friday of the month for our ALAS State Affiliates Call! Email contact@alasedu.org to RSVP.
Our next upcoming call is Friday, January 17th, 2020.
| Upcoming NYC NYSALAS Networking Events!
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NYC L3: Linking Latina Leaders Network Event
Friday, February 28, 2020 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
NYC Regional Meeting and Networking Event
Friday, April 3, 2020 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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Mr Elmer
Intervention Compass removes the guesswork and saves your staff time by placing all student data in one place. Teachers and admin can get back to talking about how to support the whole child. Check out how Intervention Compass is saving Gabe and his team a whole lot of time at Newport Mesa.
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Edutopia
After a class one day, Physique 57 fitness studio cofounder Tanya Becker explained to me her ongoing dedication to teaching, even while running a successful international business. "You're only as good as your last class," she said. "Otherwise, you lose your connection and relevance to the work." Becker's philosophy applies outside of the fitness world: School administrators who teach can maintain a connection with the work of learning.
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eSchool News
Keylin González lives in Tecate, Mexico, and like many young ladies her age, she's trying to stand out in a sea of students. She turned to language as a way to shine. González is part of the inaugural class receiving the Global Seal of Biliteracy in Baja, California, which recognizes dual-language proficiency.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Happy New Year! As we begin 2020 and look forward to what the new year will bring, let's take a look back at what our profession learned in the last year. From the over 25 articles that I wrote for MultiBriefs in 2019, the topics that seemed to have the highest reach with educators focused on topics such as competency-based/personalized learning; mental health and social-emotional learning (SEL); and school safety.
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The Hechinger Report
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to start the school year with all students "looping" into the rhythm of their classroom routines, with teachers already having a handle on every student's strengths, struggles and home issues? A scenario in which teachers have the opportunity to go back and re-teach a hard-to-grasp skill that students completely understood last year? Schools and teachers who embrace looping have these opportunities as well as the benefits of higher attendance, increased engagement, more instructional time, improved teacher retention and gains in student achievement.
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School Leaders Now
Windowless, padded, closet-sized rooms. Kids sent to isolation for refusing to write. Time-out booths monitored by school staff who record cries from inside. Seclusion rooms seem like something from long ago. Often the rooms have deceptive names, like calm-down rooms, restorative rooms, or quiet rooms. But, schools across the country are still isolating students in response to any number of behaviors. Here's what one education leader learned about seclusion rooms and some possible alternatives.
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eSchool News
We asked ed tech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think ed tech is headed in 2020. Social-emotional learning will remain a big focus, along with edtech driving personalized learning experiences and the growing potential of artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
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By Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 HundrED.org, a Finnish nonprofit education organization, recently announced its top 100 K-12 innovations globally. The list includes some incredible and inspiring innovations that are available for free, are impactful and scalable, and are aimed at helping children learn and flourish. Why is this important? Because we live in the digital age of education and mere access to computers, the internet, and basic educational software will no longer cut it. We need innovative programs so students can get more involved in their classes.
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Tech & Learning
With so many STEM-related career opportunities in the 21st century, it's no wonder that STEM topics are considered a key part of learning in today's classrooms. Because of this, more and more students are learning coding and programming earlier than ever before. Fortunately, there are many cutting-edge web tools and apps that help teachers teach, and students learn, coding and programming skills.
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Nextgov
A new law aims to get more girls access to science, technology, engineering and math-focused educational opportunities. At the close of 2019, President Trump signed the bicameral, bipartisan Building Blocks of STEM Act. According to lawmakers, the bill ultimately aims to introduce more kids — and specifically young girls—to scientific activities at an early age.
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Language Magazine
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a measure that extends federal grant programs aimed at preserving Indigenous languages and expands eligibility so more tribes can participate. The measure cleared the House with bipartisan support, while Senate approved the measure in June this year.
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Education Week
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Monday introduced a plan designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities, including children in the nation's public schools, and ensure equitable treatment for them. Warren's campaign released "Protecting the Rights and Equality of People with Disabilities" on Monday, providing more detail on her broader K-12 education plan and her pledge to commit an additional $20 billion in grant funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Act and expand the program to cover more services for children, ages 3 to 5.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Valentina Gonzalez, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Last summer when Tan Huynh and I asked Twitter followers to suggest topics for on our shared MiddleWeb column, several readers (including Emily Golightly, an ESL teacher in North Carolina) voiced interest in reading about under-representation of ELs in gifted programs. I'm so happy you did! If you're a glass-half-full person like I am, you might consider all of your students as gifts and gifted in some way. I have always taken that approach with my own children and each of my students as well."
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The Santafe New Mexican
Jimmie Barber spoke Spanish at home before arriving at El Camino Real Academy in Santa Fe. The third grader now jokes with friends in English and Spanish. That's because the school's dual-language immersion curriculum teaches math, reading and other subjects in both languages. The landmark Yazzie/Martinez v. State of New Mexico lawsuit ordered the state to direct more resources to public schools. Part of that mandate calls for culturally relevant curriculum and more support for students learning English as a second language. Teachers and administrators at El Camino Real say the school's dual-language curriculum accomplishes both.
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The Hechinger Report
Mariam was on a roll. A bubbly sixth grader in a bright pink hijab, she sat in a semi-circle with her four classmates, trying to identify as many words with a long "a" vowel sound as she could. "Rake," she said. "Rake — perfect," Sharon George, her teacher, said encouragingly. "So, take your yellow marker and highlight the 'a' in rake." The English language, George told her students, is hard. The rules of pronunciation and grammar are complicated and full of exceptions. It can be difficult for students who've grown up in the United States — let alone those who've only just arrived after having their learning disrupted by war and conflict.
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District Administration Magazine
Districts that educate larger percentages of low-income students are increasingly making an effort to provide more robust music education, according to The Hechinger Report. Music education in lower-income districts remains less robust and is offered less frequently. But more than half of the students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the "Best Communities for Music Education" award in 2019, according to The Hechinger Report.
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Language Magazine
Humans have a breadth of emotions and are on a constant search to express them through language, though sometimes we find that words in one language don't have a translatable counterpart in another. Norwegians say forelsket, which describes the feeling and experiences at the very beginning of falling in love, while the indigenous Baining people of Papua New Guinea say awumbuk to describe a social hangover that leaves people unmotivated and lacking energy for days after the departure of overnight guests.
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Education World (commentary)
Miriam Plotinsky, a contributor for Education World, writes: "The other day, my daughter came home from school with a paper in her hands. Her teacher had offered the class a spelling pre-test, and those students who spelled the words correctly would not have to take the actual test a few days later. My daughter was excited about her own success, but then she got quiet. 'My friend got all the words right,' she said, 'but the teacher gave her a zero because she forgot to write down her name.'"
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EdSource
Each year, thousands of children in California are removed from their homes and placed into foster care due to parental neglect, abuse or exploitation. During this time, they are considered to be wards or dependents of the court. While some children are reunited with their families in a matter of weeks, others may stay in foster care for years until they reach adulthood and age out of the system.
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