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ALAS
The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents invites you to attend our 16th Annual Education Summit Leadership: Conquering the Equity Gap! in Orlando, Florida.
October 16-19, 2019. Pre-conference events starting October 16th include the L3: Linking Latina Leaders Luncheon & Networking event!
View the Conference Agenda
Pre-conference keynote speakers include:
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Dr. Lily DeBlieux;
Pendergast Elementary School
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Dr. Lupita Hightower;
Tolleson Elementary School
District No. 17 Superintendent |
Michael J. Ramirez;
Denver Public Schools
Deputy Superintendent of Schools |
Keynote speakers include:
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Susana Cordova;
Denver Public
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Dr. Jesus Jara;
Clark County School
District Superintendent |
Event Location: Renaissance Orlando at Seaworld Hotel
6677 Sea Harbor Dr, Orlando, FL 32821
2019 Summit Attendee Registration Form — For SD/ SA Group Pricing & Pay by PO
Early Bird Registration Available Now – Ends August 31, 2019
Visit the ALAS website for more information!
RFP Proposals are currently under review by selection committee. Final decisions will be sent out by July 15th, 2019.
For inquiries email: Cynthia Pandurini cpandurini@alasedu.org
| ALAS National Town Hall Meeting: New York City
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ALAS
Thank you to our event partners Genius Plaza, Benchmark Education and American Reading Company for your support.
Courageous leaders are agents of change. ALAS stands with NYC Public Schools in their efforts to provide equity and access for all students.
ALAS
Members of ALAS join forces with more than 6,000 of their peers from across the country with the mission to provide leadership at the national level that assures every school in America effectively serves the educational needs of all students, with an emphasis on Latinx youth, by building capacity, promoting best practices and transforming educational institutions.
ALAS 2018-2019 membership term will be up for renewal on July 1, 2019 for 2019-2020.
Visit ALAS website to join ALAS or renew your membership!
ALAS
ALAS is offering a $10,000 scholarship and a $2,000 scholarship this year thanks to our partner Curriculum Associates who is sponsoring the ALAS scholarships for the fifth consecutive year.
ALAS recognizes Latinx administrators for their leadership by providing assistance toward an advanced degree in education. The top recipient will receive a one-time $10,000 scholarship award and the runner-up recipient will receive a one-time $2,000 scholarship award. The scholarships will be made payable to the recipients' institution of higher learning and the recipients will be presented the award during the Awards Banquet at the 16th Annual ALAS Education Summit in Orlando, FL.
If you are an aspiring Latinx superintendent currently enrolled in, or have been accepted in to, an advanced degree program in education in a college or university, take advantage of this opportunity to secure a scholarship.
DEADLINE: September 1, 2019
View Eligibility and Application Process
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Valle del Sol
Presented each September, the Profiles of Success Hispanic Leadership Awards Celebration recognizes Latino leadership. The luncheon launches National Hispanic Heritage Month in Arizona and is attended by nearly 1,600 people. The funds raised from this event will give new hope to the thousands of men, women, children, families and the elderly who need Valle del Sol's help. Read the bios of the Hispanic Leadership Awards Celebration 2019 Honorees. READ MORE.
| Dr. Daisy Morales, SLA Cohort VIII Alum, Selected as New Assistant Superintendent!
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ALAS
Dr. Morales, ALAS SLA Cohort VIII and CALSA President-Elect, selected as the new Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services in Salinas City Elementary School District. Daisy graduated from the ALAS Superintendents Leadership Academy in May 2019 along with 14 other exceptional leaders. Congratulations Dr. Morales!
| Susana Cordova, SLA Cohort V Alum Recognized at Latinas Lead Power Summit
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ALAS
Susana Cordova, ALAS SLA Cohort V Alum, receives Latinas Lead Influencer Award from Latino Community Foundation of Colorado at the Latinas Lead Power Summit in June 2019! Congratulations Susana! SEE MORE.
On behalf of the ALAS board, we are proud of all of our SLA Alumni and every other ALAS member 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.
| | LEADERSHIP, DATA AND PUBLICATIONS |
The New York Academy of Public Education Research Journal, Article by Alex Marrero, Ed.D.
"The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) prepares Latinx administrators for the superintendency on the national level. In 2011, ALAS established the Superintendents Leadership Academy to train and assist aspiring Latinx superintendents to learn how to lead a school district. The goal is to prepare Latinx school administrators to become superintendents of districts with an emphasis on locations that have a Latinx student population of 25 percent or higher...." READ MORE.
NALEO Educational Fund
NALEO Educational Fund has compiled a 2020 Census Field and Communications Toolkit to prepare our communities with everything there is to know about the upcoming 2020 Census and citizenship question.
No other issue before the Supreme Court will have more direct consequences for the nation's Latinos than the one before the Court regarding the 2020 Census.
As we await a determination in the case, we encourage you to continue to remind the communities you serve about the importance of a full census count and what is at risk. We know that if the citizenship question is allowed to stand, it will be more important than ever that we come together in a united front and empower our community to make themselves count in Census 2020. VIEW THE TOOLKIT.
TNTP.ORG
While more students than ever before are enrolling in college, far fewer are succeeding once they get there. Nationwide, 40 percent of college students (including 66 percent of Black college students and 53 percent of Latinx college students) take at least one remedial course, where they spend time and money learning skills they were told they’d already mastered in high school. A recent study found that college remediation costs students and their families $1.5 billion annually, with one in four students spending an average of $3,000 extra to earn their degrees...READ MORE.
| AFT Protest Rally to close inhumane child detention camps and reunite migrant families
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AFT
Please join the AFT for a protest rally to close the inhumane child detention camps and reunite migrant families on Friday, July 12th from noon to 1:00 p.m. at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Patrol Office, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
If you have any questions, please contact Regena Thomas at 202-879-4434 or rthomas@aft.org
ALAS
The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents is dedicated to achieving education equity and access for all students; specifically, for the under-served and under-represented. Actions to achieve equity require courageous leadership and passion to confront this ethical imperative when
individuals of privilege view equity as personal oppression and create barriers in its attainment. School systems must not remain separate and void of equity. Diversity in quality personnel that mirrors the student demographic, and access to educational programming, should no longer be a scarce commodity for all children throughout our country. ALAS stands with every leader who takes
robust actions to remove barriers to access and equity for all children. READ FULL STATEMENT.
The Washington Post
The House on June 4th passed a bill that would offer a path to citizenship to more than 2 million undocumented immigrants, including "dreamers" who were brought to the United States as children.
The vote was 237 to 187 for the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019, which would grant dreamers 10 years of legal residence status if they meet certain requirements. They would then receive permanent green cards after completing at least two years of higher education or military service, or after working for three years. READ MORE.
ALAS
The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS), issued the following statement in response to the Administration's May 16 announcement of a plan to significantly alter the nation’s immigration policy:
"As an organization advocating for equity in public education among both students and school leadership opportunities, we believe the immigration policy outlined by the Administration is a misguided, incomplete, and fundamentally flawed approach to the complex issue of immigration reform." READ FULL STATEMENT.
ALAS
Opportunity for students to highlight the importance of having Latinx leaders and role models.
Most impactful submissions will be highlighted on the ALAS website, news brief and at the 16th Annual ALAS Education Summit in Orlando, FL.
Thanks to our generous partner Donorschoose.org, participating schools will receive Donorschoose.org gift cards for their school to fund a project. While Supplies Last.
Deadline: All entries must be submitted by September 1, 2019 by EOD to be considered.
Email: Contact@alasedu.org for more information
Visit the ALAS website for details on entry submissions
DonorsChoose.org
Teacher and student diversity takes many forms, and #ISeeMe empowers the public to support important dimensions of that diversity. Research shows that students benefit when they see themselves in their teachers and in their learning materials. Inspired by that research, DonorsChoose.org is now enabling people to support classroom requests from underrepresented educators and from all teachers who seek materials that reflect their students' identities.
Led by a diverse group of philanthropic supporters — including former U.S. Secretary of Education John King, Whoopi Goldberg, LeVar Burton, Samuel L. Jackson, Stephen Colbert, John Legend, and Google.org — the goal of the campaign, named #ISeeMe, is to help students see themselves in their teachers and in their learning materials. The campaign will match donations from the public to classroom requests created by teachers of color, female math and science teachers, and teachers seeking materials that reflect their students' identities. READ MORE.
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.
ALAS
Join ALAS Every Third Friday of the Month for our ALAS State Affiliates Call! Email contact@alasedu.org to RSVP.
| New Postings Every Week on ALAS Website!
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7/09/19 — Principal, Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA
7/02/19 — Director of Student Support Services, New Paltz CSD, NY
7/02/19 — Executive Director of Student Services, Stafford County Public Schools, VA
7/02/19 — Probationary Elementary Reading Teacher, New Paltz CSD, NY
7/01/19 — Probationary Elementary Teacher(s), New Paltz CSD, NY
7/01/19 — Probationary Special Education Teacher(s), New Platz CSD, NY
6/21/19 — Executive Director of Facilities and Maintenance, Stafford County Public Schools, VA
6/21/19 — Executive Director, CALSA (ALAS State Affiliate), CA
6/18/19 — Chief Executive Officer, Equal Opportunity Schools, WA
6/10/19 — Chief Equity and Diversity Officer, Missouri Public School District, MO
6/04/19 — Assistant Principal, Green Dot Public Schools, Los Angeles, CA
5/30/19 — Instructional Leadership Coordinator for Literacy, AZ
VISIT ALAS WEBSITE FOR MORE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES & INFORMATION!
Education Week
On Independence Day, hundreds of educators marched to a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, chanting calls for freedom. The protesters are delegates to the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union. The NEA is holding its annual representative assembly here July 4-7. But the protest was not sanctioned by the NEA — it was a grassroots march organized by educators, who were horrified to learn their convention was blocks away from a facility for immigrant youth.
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PBS Newshour
New York state has some of the most segregated schools in the U.S., particularly among African-American and Latino students. And 65 years after the Supreme Court decision declaring school-based racial segregation to be unconstitutional, New York City students are pushing for a city-wide integration plan. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the first of a two-part series examining the debate.
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Pew Research Center
Classes have ended for the summer at public schools across the United States, but a sizable share of teachers are still hard at work at second jobs outside the classroom. Among all public elementary and secondary school teachers in the U.S., 16% worked non-school summer jobs in the break before the 2015-2016 school year. Notably, about the same share of teachers (18%) had second jobs during the 2015-2016 school year, too, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This makes teachers about three times as likely as U.S. workers overall to balance multiple jobs, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
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MindShift
It was a Friday morning in early May, just before Mother's Day, when a group of preschool teachers settled onto oversized pillows and colorful beanbags for a conversation that would lead to tears, frustration and — eventually — a sense of clarity on a delicate matter involving a child. Karen Massingille, a preschool behavioral health therapist, sat on a tiny child's chair, looking at the nine women seated around her in a cozy, carpeted corner of the sunlit room. She took a few deliberate breaths, then started to speak.
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EdTech Magazine
As K–12 schools shift towards an increasingly digitally-integrated classroom, it is essential that teachers have the tools they need to keep students safe from harmful content online. Modern content monitoring solutions are helping schools keep students away from entering inappropriate sites as well as protect them from falling victim to cyberthreats.
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Education DIVE
The integration of technology into education — which includes everything from online homework to digital textbooks — has led to increasing concerns around digital equity, said panelists at the 2019 International Society for Technology in Education conference. They also addressed the question of how educators can bridge the gap.
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School Leaders Now
It's easy to get jaded about technology these days, and then you see stuff that blows off your socks. That's just what happened to me at ISTE 2019. Technology is doing more than ever before, but instead of letting ourselves get wowed by the bells and whistles of coolness, this year we focused on finding schoolwide technology tools that are worth making room for in your budget.
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eSchool News
Efforts to get kids coding have exploded in recent years, but sometimes kids need a push to discover the "why" behind learning how to code. At ISTE 2019, that push to learn coding was clear as new K-12 robotics solutions emerged. Aside from the cool factor K-12 robotics offers, students who learn to program through robotics learn a number of skills they'll take with them well into adulthood, including creativity, problem solving and the ability to fail without quitting.
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District Administration Magazine
With 67% of educational software underutilized, according to Glimpse K-12's recent analysis of spending at 275 schools, it is important for administrators to ensure software use is effective and to avoid purchases that don't meet school needs. Know who is driving software purchasing, says Joseph South, chief learning officer for the International Society for Technology in Education. Often, a disconnect exists between educators and those making district purchasing decisions. To cut down on waste, South encourages administrators to include educators who will use the software in the buying process.
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Education Week
Education groups concerned about a fair distribution of federal education money though they got their wish, when the Trump administration announced it would print forms for the 2020 census without a controversial question about respondents' citizenship status. Later, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice reversed course and said they were trying to find a way to incorporate the item, which is the subject of ongoing legal disputes, on orders from President Donald Trump.
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Education DIVE
Vying for an endorsement from the nation's largest labor union, 10 Democratic presidential candidates responded to educators' questions on issues ranging from charter schools to gun violence during a National Education Association forum.
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Language Magazine
The American educational system has a difficult time understanding dyslexia and an even harder time identifying children with dyslexia in order to provide the correct intervention for students who are native English speakers. When a school has the added challenge of identifying struggling English language learners, the task becomes an even more complicated process, and often, these kids are completely missed. But that does not have to be the case.
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eSchool News
The opportunity of bilingualism is an important gift to give to our students. The cognitive, cultural and professional benefits of bilingualism have the potential to broaden learners' experiences in their careers and academics. In a recent edWebinar, Maya Goodall, senior director of EL Curriculum at Lexia Learning, highlighted that 10 percent of all students in U.S. public schools are emerging bilingual learners and emerging multilinguals.
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CNBC
English is universally accepted as the most important language for children to learn — but Mandarin is catching up, according to new research. U.K. market research firm YouGov polled more than 25,000 adults across 23 countries on which language was the most important to learn in 2019. Participants were able to select up to four responses.
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Edutopia
Every new teacher is given the same challenge: Do the best you can to cover the material in the most engaging way all year. Sounds simple, right? Don't worry — many of your fellow first-year teachers agree that it's not at all simple or straightforward. But curriculum mapping doesn't have to be a beast—it can help make your life easier in many ways, by helping you to set realistic expectations for your students and manage teaching a complex subject over an extended time.
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