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| ALAS at FETC 2020 Pre-Conference Recap
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ALAS
ALAS hosted our 2nd Annual ALAS at FETC Pre-Conference on January 13-14, 2020 in Miami, FL! Thank you to all our members and partners who joined us and helped make the event a success.
ALAS Members that attended the event will receive 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.
| ALAS State Affiliate Leadership Conference 2020 (SALC)
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ALAS
Join ALAS for our 2020 State Affiliates Leadership Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on March 6 - 8, 2020!
This year's conference will be hosted at Grand Canyon University. Please plan to arrive at GCU no later than 12 pm on 3/6/20 and depart after 3 pm on 3/8/20.
ALAS will cover 2 nights hotel stay at GCU (3/6/20 -3/8/20) and reimburse airfare (up to $500) per attendee.
**2 State Affiliate representatives are required to attend & participate for the entire duration of event**
GCU has been a dedicated partner of ALAS and our mission towards achieving equitable access to education for all students.
| 4th Annual Legislative Assembly / Update & 6th Annual Leaders in Education Awards Gala
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ALAS
Join ALAS for our Legislative Assembly/ Update and Leaders in Education Awards Gala on April 20th-21st in Washington, DC!
Join us as we convene for 2 days on the Hill to engage in meaningful conversations about issues that affect our community and how we can all prepare ourselves to become advocates for our students and future leaders of color during our Legislative Assembly on Monday, April 20th and Capitol Hill Advocacy Visits on April 21st.
Help us prepare our National Legislative Platform by voting here to select the top priority issues ALAS will focus on for 2020.
All ALAS members must schedule meetings with their congressional district representatives on Tuesday, April 21st between 8 am - 4 pm to share the ALAS Legislative Platform with your government leaders.
Find out who your congressional representative is here.
We ask that each of our ALAS State Affiliates bring at least 5 members to the event.
Following our Capitol Hill Advocacy visits, we will host our awards gala in the evening from 6 pm - 9 pm.
The evening begins with a networking cocktail reception, followed by a plated dinner and awards ceremony celebrating leaders who have made a unique and innovative impact in our communities, schools and for our Latinx students.
Find out more about the event on our website.
Renaissance Learning
From state tests to college entrance exams, high-stakes tests tell us a lot about our students—especially how we can improve instruction and set each one of our students up for success. But what if you knew ahead of time how your students were likely to perform? What instructional changes would you make? Discover how to get research-based predictions of students’ performance—and how to use these predictions most effectively. Check it out
| ALAS 17th Annual Education Summit
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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!
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, February 21st, 2020. .
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| 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 24, 2020 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
| New Postings Every Week on ALAS Website!
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01/13/20 — Administrators, Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery County, MD
01/13/20 — Superintendent, Lansing School District, Lansing, MI
12/13/19 — Executive Director – Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS), ALAS, Washington, DC
12/10/19 — Superintendent, Edmonds School District, WA
12/04/19 — Principal, Douglas MacArthur Elementary School, Alexandria, VA12
12/04/19 — Principal, Charles Barrett Elementary School, Alexandria, VA
12/03/19 — Assistant Principal, San Francisco Public Schools, CA
12/03/19 — Executive Director, Colorado Association of School Executives (CASE), CO
12/03/19 — Superintendent, Alisal Union School District, CA
12/03/19 — Superintendent, North Wasco County School District 21, OR
11/27/19 — Superintendent, Kalamazoo Public Schools, MI
11/27/19 — Principal and Assistant Principal, Madison Metropolitan School District, WI
11/22/19 — Superintendent, Green Bay Area Public Schools Green Bay, WI
11/22/19 — Superintendent, Grand Rapids Public Schools, MI
11/15/19 — Director III, Compensation - Human Resources Division, Clark County School District, NV
VISIT ALAS WEBSITE FOR MORE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES & INFORMATION!
District Administration Magazine (commentary)
Matthew X. Joseph, a contributor for District Administration Magazine, writes: "Before FETC 2019, my professional social media presence was exclusively on Twitter (@matthewxjoseph). That was until I had a conversation with a successful and reputable professional — Rita Oates, education consultant and former ed tech director for Miami-Dade County Public Schools — who told me I was missing out by not being on LinkedIn."
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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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Education DIVE
Martin Luther King Jr.'s belief that every individual has an innate capacity for leadership was a cornerstone of the civil rights movement. His leadership style — under which thousands of others were able to display moral heroism and rise to greatness — shows how powerful a facilitator can be and is one that can be adopted by education leaders.
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New America
Teachers across the United States are doing unpaid overtime and "invisible work" before and after school, on weekends, and during their presumed breaks. For teachers working in dual language and bilingual programs, this problem is exacerbated by the lack of ready-made materials in their language of instruction, so many put in additional time and resources to find, create and translate materials.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The beginning of every new year spawns a flurry of predictions. This year's predictions in education mark a definite shift in direction. According to experts, education will be moving away from one-size-fits-all assessments and memorizing facts to learning how to make a difference. In the next decade, solving complex problems will be most important for students. Forbes predicts that, instead of an obsession with testing and ranking, cohort education will involve place-based learning experiences. Experiential learning will slowly become the new normal.
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Education Week
Young teachers want to use technology to make a difference in the classroom, but they don't feel like their preparation programs have adequately equipped them to use do so. They expect to work in diverse classrooms, but they don't feel properly trained. And they are worried about stress and burnout. These are some of the findings from Microsoft Education, which, in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit, surveyed 1,034 student-teachers and early-career teachers around the world. Most of those teachers are part of Generation Z, which covers people born from 1995 to 2015.
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eSchool News
The technology-driven campus leverages the latest technology to better educate students and empower teachers. Devices such as iPads, iPods, Chromebooks, interactive whiteboards and different software for educators are just the tip of the iceberg — there's much, much more that connected devices, augmented reality and robotics can add to teaching methods.
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eSchool News
In Phenix City, using AR and VR in the classroom has been an integral part of our STEM programming for the past four school years. Using engaging technology, our educators are bringing lessons and scientific applications to life for our students, exposing them to new worlds and opportunities, both academic and career.
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Teach&Learning
After brainstorming ways to peer coach, two virtual charter school teachers use their affinity for distance learning tech and podcasting to reach fellow educators around the country.
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EdTech Magazine
Twenty or 30 years ago, the role of an IT director centered on maintaining devices and networks — a facilities role. But today, particularly in K–12 education, IT leaders play a much more integral part in maintaining technology used in school and districts, as well as supporting overall academic goals. For example, when a superintendent is asked about district cybersecurity, "The answer can no longer be, 'Go ask my IT guy,'" consultant Ann McMullan said at the 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference in Miami. "The superintendent has to be able to talk that talk convincingly and know what he's talking about or what she's talking about."
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 As our world becomes more and more digital, our classrooms continue to become transformed through technology. The curriculum binders in the back of the teacher's classroom have been replaced with a shared "drive." The whiteboard at the front of the room seldom has dry erase marking on it because students know their agenda, know that their notes will always live in the "cloud" and realize that the whiteboard is really a way for the teacher to project the Google Classroom on the wall. There is an app for everything — literally.
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Forbes
We are at the beginning of a 4th industrial revolution and educators are faced with preparing a generation of students for many jobs that don't even exist yet. Since the term STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) was coined back in 2001, there has been growing interest in this learning philosophy to better prepare today's students for tomorrow's jobs. However, to adequately prepare the future workforce, another acronym is gaining popularity: STEAM, which adds arts to the mix.
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St. Louis Magazine
Experts agree that science, technology, engineering and math skills are required to excel in our increasingly automated and globally connected world. In addition, the early childhood years from birth to age 5 are the most critical point in neurological or brain development. That's why Kiddie Academy makes STEM an essential part of its Life Essentials curriculum.
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Education DIVE
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said in a press release she hopes the reinforcement of old guidelines and changes in grant requirements will "protect the constitutional rights of students, teachers, and faith-based institutions" and "level the playing field" between public and religious schools. However, education organizations are claiming this is an effort to push a larger agenda expanding private and religious schools while sidelining public education.
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Language Magazine
In 2017, California Assembly Bill (AB) 705, by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, was drafted to eliminate placement bias and grant greater access for students in California's community college system. The bill, which mandates that colleges maximize students' probability of completing transfer-level English and math in a one-year timeline, aimed to address the needs of native-English-speaking high school students who were languishing from historic underplacement into remedial classes.
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New America
If publicly available data are any indication, English learners are perpetually lagging behind their native English-speaking peers academically. Indeed, report after report show that ELs consistently under-perform when it comes to statewide tests, graduation rates, course grades and more. Notably, though, new research suggests the bleak tale of the languishing EL may be misguided.
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Education Week
School districts across the country are offering students a broad array of target languages to learn in dual language programs. Schools now offer dual language education in 18 languages, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education. The report from the office of English language acquisition lists the number of states that offered programs in each language during the 2016-2017 school year. Spanish, by far the most common home or first language of the nation's English language learner students, topped the list with 30 states.
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By: Erick Herrmann (commentary)
 In most any classroom focused on helping students learn language, phrases such as "repeat after me" are commonplace, as teachers know that students need to practice saying words and putting words into sentences in order to develop language skills. In some classrooms, you might even hear phrases such as "say it with me..." or just "say ____." All of these phrases and the practice of having students chorally respond will enhance language learning by providing practice opportunities and building engagement.
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Gizmodo
Some people pick up languages like colds, or sunburns — without effort, through simple immersion in the atmosphere. Others can't hear the word "conjugate" without flashing back, in shame, to the classrooms where they failed, so long ago, to shake the curse of monolingualism. What exactly is it that allows the first group to stride around making small talk in Spanish and reading Kafka in the German while the rest of us struggle with just one language?
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Education Week
As soon as they feel feverish or achy, teachers must juggle a tricky mix of considerations: Do I have enough sick time left to stay home right now? Will my principal be angry if I call in sick? Are my students at a crucial juncture in their learning, and how will they do with a substitute? Will my school even be able to find a sub, or will they impose on one of my colleagues to fill in for me? With a particularly nasty flu season bearing down on the country, many teachers are trying to navigate through those kinds of questions.
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Language Magazine
An alliance of leaders in colleges of education across the country have released a statement cautioning against many of the current trends for "reforming" how teachers are prepared for U.S. public schools. In the statement, "Seven Trends to Reform U.S. Teacher Education, and the Need to Address Systemic Injustices," over 350 deans and other leaders called for a significant shift in course.
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