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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. Thank you Grand Canyon University!
View & Download the 2020 SALC Agenda
| 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
When considering how to boost her district’s graduation rate, former Newberg Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kym LeBlanc-Esparza made an alarming discovery: every male English Learner in her district had received at least two Fs during his middle-school career. Explore how data-driven decision making became the foundation of her new strategic plan to reverse this alarming trend and ensure success. Read it now
| 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.
Save the date for the 17th Annual ALAS Education Summit 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
Boston Public Schools Office of Equity
The 24/7 Respect program was created by the Boston Public Schools Office of Equity to empower students in grades 6 through 12 to prevent and report bias-based and sexual misconduct in or outside of school.
The BPS Office of Equity won three national grants (Novo Foundation, Teaching Tolerance, and Eversource) to take 24/7 Respect national and have schools across the country pilot the 24/7 Respect video (English version and Spanish version) and hold a discussion with their students this spring.
If you're interested in being a pilot school for the free 24/7 Respect program, please reach out to bpsequity@bostonpublicschools.org or call 617-635-9650 for more information.
| New Postings Every Week on ALAS Website!
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02/05/20 — Credentialed Teacher,Visions In Education Charter School, Carmichael, CA
02/04/20 — Director of Advanced Learning,Madison Metropolitan School District, Madison, WI
01/31/20 — Principal and Director III Alternative Education, Springfield, Missouri Public School District, Springfield, MO
01/29/20 — Superintendent, North Clackmas School District, Milwaukie, OR
01/24/20 — Director of School Support, Achievement Network (ANet), Las Vegas, NV
01/24/20 — Elementary School Principal, Kentfield School District, Kentfield, CA
01/24/20 — Principal, Kennebunk High School (Regional School Unit 21), Kennebunk, ME
01/24/20 — Superintendent, Arlington Public Schools, Arlington, VA
01/24/20 — Superintendent, Duluth Independent School, District 709, Duluth, MN
01/24/20 — Superintendent, Burlington School District, Burlington, Vermont
01/24/20 — Superintendent, Roanoke City Public Schools, Roanoke, VA
01/24/20 — Superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools, Atlanta, GA
01/24/20 — Superintendent, Bend-La Pine Schools, Deschutes County, OR
01/23/20 — Superintendent, Albuquerque Public Schools, Albuquerque, NM
01/13/20 — Administrators, Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery County, MD
01/13/20 — Superintendent, Lansing School District, Lansing, MI
11/15/19 — Director III, Compensation – Human Resources Division, Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV
VISIT ALAS WEBSITE FOR MORE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES & INFORMATION!
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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 Week
While federal health officials have said that the coronavirus is potentially a serious public health threat, most Americans, at this point, are not at risk. That, however, is not stopping educators from worrying and wondering how best to prepare for a possible case of coronavirus in their own schools and communities.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Have you ever noticed how later in the day it gets tougher to make a decision or even more challenging to pick an option from among those presented? It's not uncommon to face this dilemma in both our personal and professional lives. It's a phenomenon called decision fatigue, and psychologists and others have begun to recognize how it impacts the decisions we make.
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U.S. News & World Report
More students are living in emergency shelters, cars, motels, on the street or in some other temporary housing situation than ever before, new federal data shows. Public schools identified more than 1.5 million children experiencing homelessness during the 2017-2018 school year – an 11% increase over the previous school year and the highest number ever recorded.
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The Brookings Institution
Measures of chronic student absence are now taking on important policy roles across the country. The Every Student Succeeds Act required the adoption of non-test-based performance measures in revamped school accountability systems, with chronic absenteeism emerging as a common preferred measure. Thirty-six states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have included either chronic absenteeism or other measures of student attendance as a factor in their school-quality indicators.
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Education DIVE
Teacher preparation programs are getting better at helping teachers equip students with the skills to become good readers, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality's latest review of more than 1,000 undergraduate, graduate and alternative pathway programs.
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THE Journal
The federal E-rate funding program is an essential resource for supporting connectivity in schools and libraries. In 2014, the FCC started a five-year Category 2 budget trial to fund critical network infrastructure. This test run would determine if the approach was an effective way to provide more equitable access to Category 2 services nationwide.
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EdTech Magazine
How do you expand educational time without expanding school hours? The answer: turn the school bus into an extension of the classroom by enabling the fleet with wi-fi. It's a solution that a growing number of school districts are turning to, particularly those in rural areas where bus rides can add more than an hour to student commutes. These are often the same students suffering from the "homework gap" driven by unequal digital access: 18% of all students in rural areas have limited internet access, or no access at all, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 Computer science education is essential for students who love to code as well as those who do not. In this digital age, a computer science curriculum will enable students of all ages to develop essential logic and problem-solving skills. Furthermore, demographic disparities need to be addressed both in terms of gender and race, which has led to an educational gap in the field between white males and minority and female students.
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The Hechinger Report
For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. The evidence that students learn better this way has not been strong and, instead, we're reading reports that technology use at school sometimes hurts student achievement.
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District Administration Magazine
As educational technology has quickly developed and evolved, sometimes overwhelmed school districts and teachers have found an instructional coaching model can ease the way to incorporating ed tech into the classroom. For many districts, the answer has been to hire instructional technology coaches — which also go by other titles, such as technology integrationists, professional development coaches or tech trainers.
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Tech&Learning
Though originally considered by some as yet another fad, 3D printers have become increasingly prevalent in schools. 3D printers can be found in libraries, technology labs, innovation labs and similar locations within schools. 3D printing and 3D printers, depending on how they are used, can help build students' visual spatial, math, engineering, design, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
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THE Journal
Even though the Federal Trade Commission held a workshop last October to examine "the future of the COPPA rule," we probably shouldn't expect any changes to it in 2020, according to the Future of Privacy Forum. In a December press briefing, Amelia Vance, the director of youth and education privacy projects, suggested that the process for updating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which was legislated in 1998 and went into effect in 2000, could require more time to sort out than the current FTC commission has — depending on how the presidential election swings in November.
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Education DIVE
Lawmakers in Arizona will try again this year to repeal a 20-year-old law requiring English learners to be separated during the school day for explicit English language instruction — a model many say has left them trailing their peers in core subject areas. Arizona is also the only state in the country with such a law still on the books.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has shown how politically potent and polarizing ideas like school choice can be when the public attaches them so strongly to a highly visible person. So with the Iowa caucuses upon us, let's permit ourselves to wonder: Who could be the next secretary of education? We asked several lobbyists, analysts, and others for their responses to that question; they talked to us on background in order to speak candidly.
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New Haven Independent
On the state's most comprehensive look at school quality, New Haven's grade declined last year, primarily because of a harsh new assessment of its instruction for English learners. The Connecticut State Department of Education released that report card for every district and school, known as the Next Generation Accountability System, this past Thursday evening. New Haven collected only 64.67 percent of the total points available, a 0.36-point decline from the prior school year. That put it 9.53 points behind the state as a whole.
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Taylor & Francis Group via Science Daily
To improve behavior in class, teachers should focus on praising children for good behavior, rather than telling them off for being disruptive, according to a new study published in Educational Psychology. Researchers spent three years observing 2,536 students, across three US states, from kindergarten age through to sixth grade (5 to 12 years of age). The children observed were shown to focus on tasks up to 20% to 30% more when teachers were required to consider the number of praise statements given, compared to the number of reprimands.
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Language Magazine
Think about how many of us focus our attention on ELs by poring over data about their progress learning English, comparing their performance on standardized tests and rates of graduation with non-EL peers, and lamenting what we perceive as THE problem: that our ELs are not learning English fast enough. And how many of us then find ourselves responding to what we believe students don’t possess (English) as opposed to what they do or have developed as a result of being reared in a language and culture other than U.S. English?
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Education Next
Maximizing the potential of all students is the stated goal of many schools. When some students have specialized needs, however, the best way forward isn't always clear. Consider students whose unique learning needs entitle them to special-education services or those who are English language learners. Schools invest significant time, resources, and attention in serving these populations, and federal and state governments pay for targeted services for these groups. This funding design assumes that additional education spending for special-education students and English learners should be focused on specific supports for only those students, such as specially trained teachers, curriculum, and counselors, instead of balanced between specialized supports and more general investments in overall school quality. Is that the most effective approach?
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District Administration Magazine
A recent study by the National Center for Research on Gifted Education found that students from underserved populations — including African American, Latinx, English language learners, and students who received free or reduced-price lunch — were between one-quarter and one-half as likely to be identified for gifted programs as their more affluent peers. These findings were also reported for large urban districts where the vast majority of students are from minority and low-income populations.
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By: Debra Josephson Abrams (commentary)
 Stories designed to teach particular lessons, such as Aesop's Fables or Chassidic tales, can be used to promote cultural awareness and sensitivity; critical and creative thinking; making predictions and inferences; the elements of literature; and story-making and storytelling so students can create their own lessons. Though we often associate fables and tales with children, they transcend age; the best have lessons to teach all of us. There are a number of ways you can design a fable-making project.
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Language Magazine
Study shows Americans are the nationality most concerned about perceptions of their accent and that accents are associated with traits from professionalism to passion.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Curtis Chandler, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "I have a teaching secret. Not the good type, like a trick or tip to make sure every lesson is a success ... but the kind I’m NOT proud of. Here it is: Despite all the writing and speaking I do about making learning student-focused, participatory and engaging, deep down what I really crave is a compliant, calm, predictable classroom."
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The Journal-Courier
Jill Pertler, a contributor for The Journal-Courier, writes: "Something about a new year (or decade) gets me focused on the English language. I'm not sure why. Normal people focus on indoor exercise and weight loss during the winter months. I think about words and the heaviness they can cause when used in a redundant manner. Heavy phrases are like extra weight on this hips — unwanted, unwarranted and unneeded. I don't want to come across as preachy. I realize the English language is an ominous and arduous beast. Still, when desiring to master something one must focus on the details. Shall we get started?"
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