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ALAS
ALAS will graduate our 8th Superintendents Leadership Academy Cohort this May! As of this Cohort, ALAS will have graduated 122 individuals that are prepared and ready to take on superintendent roles across the country. NYSALAS will host their inaugural summit following the SLA graduation.
Event Details: May 18, 2019
9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Teachers College Columbia University Milbank Chapel
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
Click here to register for this event.
NYSALAS
New York State Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents invites you to attend the NYSALAS Inaugural Education Summit 2019!
Come participate in our inaugural education summit being held in New York City Teachers College at Columbia University on May 18, 2019.
Event Details: May 18, 2019
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Teachers College Columbia University Milbank Chapel
525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027
NYS ALAS Flying ACEs —
Advocacy, Collaboration, Empowerment: Preparing Educators to Soar
About the event:
Meet our Executive Board of Directors representing all eight of our regions. Hear our New York State and New York City Chancellors speak about relevant issues. Listen to NYS ALAS Board Superintendent panel share their journeys. Interact with partners who have much to offer your schools. Participate in relevant professional development sessions with great leaders. Network and break bread with colleagues from across the state.
Click here to register for the event.
Download the invitation.
| ALAS concluded the 3rd Annual Legislative Assembly/Update and the 5th Annual Leaders in Education Awards Gala this past week!
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ALAS
ALAS thanks everyone who attended the events and helped advocate for equitable education for our communities on the Hill and to everyone who joined us the honor and celebrate our Latinx Leaders! We are very proud of the individuals honored this year. We hope our events inspired, re-energized, and renewed your dedicated in creating positive changes within our most cherished institutions; our community school systems.
Every year ALAS seeks to bring recognition and highlight those superintendents and school administrators who are making a strong impact in closing the achievement and opportunity gaps for all Latinx students. This year ALAS recognized Dr. Lupita L. Hightower, Superintendent of Tolleson Elementary School District No. 17 in Arizona, as the 2019 ALAS Latinx Superintendent of the Year! Dr. Arsenio Romero, Superintendent of Deming Public Schools in New Mexico as the 2019 Latinx Serving School District Superintendent of the Year! Mr. Guillermo Medina, Principal at Boulder Valley School District in Colorado as the 2019 ALAS Latinx Administrator of the Year! And Dr. Carmen I. Ayala, State Superintendent of Education of Illinois State Board of Education, as this year's Latinx Impact Award recipient! ALAS honored Congressman Ben Ray Lujan, U.S. Representative D-NM 3rd District with the ALAS 2019 Estrella Award! Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, U.S. Representative D-CA 40th District was honored with the ALAS 2019 Trailblazer Award!
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| Dr. Lupita L. Hightower |
Mr. Guillermo Medina |
Dr. Carmen I. Ayala |
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| Dr. Arsenio Romero |
Congresswoman
Lucille Roybal- Allard
(D-CA 40th District) |
Congressman
Ben Ray Lujan
(D-NM 3rd District) |
View the 2019 Leaders in Education Awards Gala Gallery!
View the 2019 Legislative Assembly/Update Gallery!
Thank you to our Legislative Assembly/Update Partners!
Thank you to our Awards Gala Partners!
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| FL-ALAS President, Michael Ramirez, Selected as New Deputy Superintendent of Schools for Denver Public Schools!
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FLALAS & DPS
Michael J. Ramirez, FL-ALAS President and ALAS SLA Cohort V Member, will join the senior leadership team in Denver Public Schools this summer!
He's currently Cadre Director for the Office of School Performance and Accountability with Broward County Public Schools in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the nation's sixth largest school district serving 271,000 students. Michael supervises high schools providing support, coaching and evaluation. His primary responsibilities include increasing academic achievement; graduation rates; college/career life readiness; and overall school culture.
Michael's accomplishments include leading a strategic initiative monitoring students on-track for graduation, developing and facilitating professional learning for principals, increasing student achievement on end-of-course exams in algebra and geometry, and redesigning the schedule for all high schools to include a personalization period designed to better support the academic and social-emotional needs of students.
Michael is completing his 24th year in education. He has served as a high school principal, assistant principal and teacher. He has served as an adjunct college professor and as President of the Florida Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (FL-ALAS). Michael is a graduate of two Superintendent Academies that have fueled his beliefs in equity leadership.
| ALAS SLA Cohort VIII Member, Dr. Victor Vergara, Selected as New Director of Multilingual Education for Federal Way School District!
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ALAS
Starting July 1st, Dr. Victor Vergara will be the New Director of Multilingual Education for Federal Way School District, WA. The most diverse District in the State of Washington. The school district serves 25,000 students – of those: 29.8% are Latina/o,11.5% Asian, 14.5% African American, 21% ELL students and 64% are low income students. Dr. Vergara is set to graduate from the ALAS Superintendents Leadership Academy along with 15 other exceptional leaders on May 18 in New York! ALAS congratulates Dr. Vergara and wishes him all the success in his new leadership roles!
| ALAS SLA Cohort VIII Member, Dr. Cesar A. Alvarez, Selected as the New Principal of Frances Willard Elementary School!
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ALAS
Dr. Cesar Alvarez will begin his new leadership role as Principal of Frances Willard Elementary School in Kansas City on July 15th, 2019! Dr. Alvarez will graduate from the ALAS Superintendents Leadership Academy on May 18, 2019 in New York City.
On behalf of the ALAS board, we are proud of all of our SLA and every other SLA Alumni who has moved up into new leadership roles across the country. We know you will pay it forward by continuing to be ALAS members and mentoring others.
ALAS
Deadline to apply: Due May 31, 2019
ALAS Superintendents Leadership Academy (SLA) Cohort IX Accepting Applications
ALAS is proud to accept applications for the ninth cohort of our premier leadership development program. We will reach an amazing number of 122 SLA alumni graduates in May. Our goal and vision to recruit, prepare and expand opportunities for emerging school-system leaders have been successful and we continue to offer an exclusive yearlong training institute that includes coaching, training, mentoring and support. Email contact@alasedu.org for more information.
Download the application.
View the 2019-2020 SLA IX Cohort Schedule.
The Office of English Language Acquisition
A special thank you to OELA for hosting their Multiliteracy Symposium at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC! The event explored important topics with national leaders in research, practice, and policy who shared their perspectives on why developing language and literacy skills in English plus other languages is critical in today’s learning environment.
Featured speakers included leaders from federal agencies, Congress, educators, parents and students.
Welcome remarks by Jose A. Viana, Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director of OELA, U.S. Department of Education, Remarks by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Closing Remarks by Margarita Pinkos, President of National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE).
ALAS Executive Director, Dr. Lewin, moderated a panel – Focus on Educational Systems and Practices. Panel consisted of the following participants:
Washington, D.C.-
Vanessa Bertelli, Executive Director & Co-Founder, DC Language Immersion Project
Daniella Anello, Head of School, DC Bilingual Public Charter School
Nandi Chase, Seventh Grade Student, District of Columbia International School
Cherise Cole, Parent, District of Columbia Public Schools
Prince George's County, MD:
Delores Millhouse, Co-Founder, My Bilingual Child
Noah Alexander Millhouse, Third Grade Student, Phyllis E. Williams Spanish Immersion School
Jane M. Tarwacki, Immersion Instructional Specialist, Prince George's County Public Schools
Mauricio Salinas, Spanish Immersion Program Coordinator, Cool Spring Dual Spanish Immersion School
Fairfax County, VA-
Rich Pollio, Director of ESOL Services, Fairfax County Public Schools
Sarah Eqab, ESOL Instructional Resource Teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools
Visit ALAS Website to view full gallery!
Recorded Live Stream
Jason Learning
Take advantage of ALAS' new strategic partnership with Jason Learning — www.jason.org to support sparking and sustaining an interest in STEM in grades 3-12 students. We are excited about sharing three areas of interest that Jason provides:
- Real world, project based, NGSS standards aligned, digital curriculum that is constantly evolving and adapting.
- STEM Role models that come right into your classroom via zoom.
- World-wide Argonaut & Athena expeditions with real scientists and researchers available for one of your students and one of your teachers to experience. This is a life changing opportunity.
For more information on how to bring these valuable resources to your schools and districts, please contact Tom Davis, Director of Business Development at tomas@alsedu.org or cell at 619-607-2876.
Info to the State Affiliates: State Affiliates Google Drive Folder Available Now! Please email Contact@alasedu.org to receive access.
ALAS-U
Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents Utah concluded the 2019 Summit Equity: Standing United — Service Leadership for Our Youth on May 4, 2019!
ALAS-U Summit included discussions on fellowship, mentorship and career advancement with keynote speaker Dr. Lily Matos DeBlieux, ALAS Board Member.
Location: University of Utah Sorenson Arts and Education Complex
1720 Campus Center Drive, SLC
Click here to visit ALAS-U website for upcoming events.
ALAS
ALAS Executive Director and and Benchmark Education partners meet with distinguished New Jersey educators to discuss the launch of New Jersey State Affiliate! In attendance: Rosa Diaz, Michelle Velez- Jonte, Maria Campanario, Yasmin Hernandez, Jennifer Osemwegie, Sylvia Esteves, Robert Altamirano, Albert Padilla
| New Postings Every Week on ALAS Website!
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5/07/19 — Principal, Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax CPS, VA
4/17/19 — Principal, Hillcrest High School, MO
4/16/19 — Founding Principal, Cristo Rey St. Viator, NV
4/16/19 — Head of School, Princeton Friends School, NJ
4/11/19 — Vice Principal, Visions in Education, CA
4/03/19 — Director of Grants and Federal Programs, Tolleson Union High School District NO. 214, AZ
4/01/19 — Lower School Principal, Capital City Public Charter School, DC
4/01/19 — Elementary & High School Principals, New Paltz Central School District, NY
4/01/19 — Director of Human Resources, Windham Public Schools, CT
Visit ALAS website for more career opportunities & information!
Education DIVE
All the ed tech tools popping up in schools around the country generates an incredible amount of data. This information can help direct the direction of students' learning and districts' decisions, as well as the curriculum and instructional decisions made by educators on a daily basis. However, while this data can tell very detailed stories, that's only the case if people can make sense of it.
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Education Week
Education leaders who oversee school improvement are having a tough time getting a handle on the role evidence must play in turnaround efforts — and some are worried about the sheer volume of schools that could get identified as needing some sort of intervention in the age of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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The Brookings Institution
Much has recently been written about the growing
problem of teacher shortages. While such shortages may sometimes result from, or lead to, high rates of teacher turnover at the school level, turnover — defined as the yearly rate of departure of teachers from a school — is of policy interest in its own right. It imposes financial costs on schools and districts because of the need to find replacement teachers, and it has been shown to reduce
student achievement.
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Forbes
You arrive to work on Monday morning with optimism and hopefulness about the day and week ahead. You're going to stay focused. Then, you open your computer and watch with despair while hundreds of emails flood in, including one from your boss about a mistake your team made last week. This trumps everything you had in mind to accomplish.
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U.S. News & World Report
When Lily Eskelsen García, president of the 3.2-million member National Education Association, attended the State of the Union address earlier this year as a guest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, she had an unexpected encounter at a reception after the speech. A waitress for the company catering the reception approached the head of the powerful teachers union, who was looking to put down an empty glass.
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School Leaders Now
Student-Hunger Solutions 101 isn't a course educators take in college. Even so, student hunger is something most school districts must address. School leaders and educators feel a moral responsibility to fulfill the basic needs of their students. In fact, teachers often spend hundreds of dollars per year to keep students from going without.
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Technical.ly
Desmond Hasty won't admit it, but every day inside his computer science classroom at Boys' Latin of Philadelphia Charter School is a struggle. Each day, Hasty stands in front of each child, no fewer than 15 per class, and tries to teach them one part of a STEM education that could prepare them for the rest of their lives. Some listen, some would rather sit in the cut and play Fortnite or watch YouTube videos.
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The 74
Gonzalo Birrueta didn't just like playing video games as a kid; he liked thinking about how they were made. In middle school, he'd experiment with coding, watching YouTube videos for help. But it was easy to lose motivation — he didn't have many people he could talk to about coding in Quincy, a rural town of 7,000 perched above the Columbia River in Central Washington state.
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eSchool News
The push for computer science education and computational thinking in K-12 schools is spreading across the nation, but many districts struggle with equity issues as they ensure economically disadvantaged students and students with special needs have access to the same resources. Springfield Public Schools is committed to ensuring all students in the district are able to learn computer science and computational thinking, and during a CoSN 2019 session, Paul Foster, the district's chief information officer, outlined how SPS is taking steps to ensure equity of access for all students.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The digitization of education has meant that efforts to ensure data security have become imperative in recent years. Yet, much remains to be done in improving technologies and training K-12 staff. The emerging technologies in this niche are hard to pin down. They are evolving rapidly, and cash-strapped districts often find it hard to keep up with the latest trends and techniques. It is hardly any wonder that K-12 education is subject to more malicious cyberattacks than most industries.
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Education Week
The world is awash in data on student performance in — and attitudes toward — science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning. The problem is that none of that information is particularly easy to find, and it's really hard to compile bits and pieces into a complete picture. Now the National Math and Science Initiative, a nonprofit that offers districts training on improving STEM learning, is trying to fill in the gaps. It's created a new tool to make it easier to look at patterns that affect how students do in those fields.
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The 74
Buried among the hundreds of pages of federal K-12 education law is the "unsafe school choice option," a provision that allows students who were victims of a violent incident at school, or who attended "persistently dangerous" schools, to transfer to any other public school in their district, including charters. Such a policy would seem to tick a lot of appealing boxes for members of Congress, from support for school choice and parent empowerment to a new safety provision in a country grappling with devastating school shootings.
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The Washington Post
In a presidential Cabinet that resembles a season of "Survivor" more than "The West Wing," an unlikely contestant is still standing after more than two years. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos remains so disliked in certain circles that her very name is a punchline. She mostly lands in the news for the wrong reasons, such as being forced last month to defend budget cuts for the Special Olympics before angry lawmakers.
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U.S. News & World Report
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been busy peddling the Trump administration's newest school choice priority, a $5 billion tax credit scholarship that would help families cover the cost of private or public K-12 school of their choice, or pay for online classes, tutoring and after-school programs, among other things. She's been meeting privately with members of Congress and state education chiefs, touting the proposal in a series of public "fireside chats," and traveling to choice-friendly states, like Tennessee, to drum up support.
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Edutopia
English language learners have historically been underrepresented and underserved in U.S. gifted and talented programs. To move the needle in a more promising direction, we can begin by asking ourselves how we can increase the visibility of diverse learners in GT screening. What does equity look like in identifying language learners for gifted services? And how can we actively improve culturally responsive supports for exceptional ELLs in our classrooms?
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Chalkbeat
A 2008 report offered a dire warning: U.S. schools were falling behind their international peers. Its prescription: states should "adopt a common core of internationally benchmarked standards in math and language arts." The idea of the Common Core would soon gain steam. Thanks to interest from state leaders and financial incentives offered by the federal government and private philanthropies, most states adopted new academic standards over the next few years.
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Times Union
Schools in New York are finding it difficult to secure teachers specifically trained to serve their non-native English speakers. A report from the state School Boards Association revealed that 20 percent of district superintendents have a shortage of teachers for English language learners, while 52 percent said they struggled to fill the positions. The population of non-native English speakers in New York schools has grown by 11 percent from the 2011-2012 school years to 2017-2018, according to data from the state. The increase was 44 percent just for schools outside of New York City.
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Oil City News
Three Natrona County School District educators gave a presentation on the effects of trauma on English language learners during the 4th Annual Wyoming English as a Second Language Conference. NCSD Trust-Based Relational Intervention practitioner and special education teacher Sarah Larsen, English as a second language teacher Lisa Birkett and ESL teacher Ashley Cardenas gave their presentation at Pathways Innovation Center/Roosevelt High School, the location of the ESL Conference.
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Language Magazine
Throughout the U.S., there is a sizeable population of international students from mainland China studying at colleges and universities. Among the varied difficulties during the process of adjustment to the host culture, such as homesickness, loneliness and isolation, as well as financial burden, it is probably academic literacy that creates the biggest barrier to the ultimate success of Chinese international students.
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Forbes
Feeling like you belong — in a classroom, in a major, at an institution — is one of the most important factors in whether you persist and succeed in college. When students sense that their backgrounds, perspectives and identities are welcomed and valued, in class discussions and in their academic field overall, they engage more, learn more and are more likely to continue their studies.
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