Friday May 13 - Symposium:
Looking Back, Leading the Way
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Date: Friday, May 13, 2011
Time: 1:30pm – 9:00pm
Description: The afternoon symposium will feature panel discussions with language immersion experts and special guests. The panels are for parents, teachers, administrators and policy makers.
Participants will be able to mingle with the experts at a cocktail mixer.
After a short dinner break, the keynote will follow at 7:30pm.
Yong Zhao, Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon, will deliver the evening keynote address. Zhao, author of Catching Up or Leading The Way: American Education In The Age of Globalization, will speak on global education.
U.S. House of Representative, Dr. Judy Chu, representing California’s 32nd District, has also been invited to deliver a second keynote address. Dr. Chu introduced the Global Languages Early Education (GLEE) Act that authorizes $100 million to establish bilingual early-learning programs in schools across the country.
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Location: Veteran’s Auditorium Complex 4117 Overland Blvd. Culver City, CA
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Prepaid Registration:
$35 for the symposium and keynote address
$30 for the symposium only
$10 for the keynote address only.
At Door Entrance Fee:
$40 for the symposium and keynote address
$35 for the symposium only
$12 for the keynote address only.
PROGRAM DETAILS:
Date: Friday, May 13, 2011
Time: 1:30pm – 9:00pm
1:00pm Registration – Lobby; Sign up for Panel Groups
1:30pm Opening Session (Veteran’s Auditorium)
- Welcoming Remarks – Scott Zeidman, President, CCUSD School Board
- Language Immersion: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - Nancy Rhodes and Tara Fortune - Lecture
- Opening Panel: Successes, Challenges and Critical Issues of Immersion Programs:
2:45pm Panel #1 – Rotunda
The ABCs of Dual Language Immersion: Basic concepts for parents and other parties
Panel #2 – Garden Room
The Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education
3:45pm Panel #3 – Rotunda
Advocacy: Fostering Positive Attitudes towards Bilingualism
Panel #4 – Garden Room
Teacher Strategies: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning
4:45pm Closing Session: (Panel #5) – Rotunda
Immersion Retrospective; Path of an Immersion Student
5:30 Pre-dinner/Cocktail Mixer Program: Garden Room
Mingle with the Experts: Get Your Questions Answered
6: 00pm Dinner – Downtown Culver City – Details to follow
7:30pm Keynotes – Veteran’s Auditorium
Judy Chu, El Monte Congresswoman
8:00pm Yong Zhao, Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon, author of Catching Up or Leading The Way: American Education In The Age of Globalization, will speak on globalization and education
Panelists include:
Elvira G. Armas, Associate Director, Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL), Loyola Marymount University, School of Education
Michelle Barmazel-Steinberg, Alum of first graduating Spanish Immersion class (’78) in Culver City
Jay Chen, President, Hacienda-La Puente Unified School District School Board
Andrew Cohen, Professor (Phased Retirement), Program in Second Language Studies, University of Minnesota
Shelley Coleman-Speigel, (Invited) California Together Representative
Madeline Ehrlich, Parent, Founder Advocates for Language Learning
Tara Fortune, Ph.D., Immersion Project Coordinator, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), University of Minnesota
Carla Herrera, EL Specialist, ABC Unified School District
Alice Horiba, Japanese Immersion Teacher, El Marino Language School
Ana Jones, Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) Specialist, International Foreign Language Academy of Glendale (FLAG), Special Projects and Intercultural Education
Magaly Lavadenz, Professor and Director, Bilingual and Biliteracy, Language and Culture Dept., Loyola Marymount University, School of Education
Elizabeth Arguelles Mejia , Spanish Immersion Teacher, El Marino Language School and Alum of second graduating Spanish Immersion class (’79) in Culver City
Rosa Molina, Executive Director, 2-Way CABE
Olga Moraga, LMU Assistant Director, Bilingual & Bicultural Program, Loyola Marymount University, School of Education
James Orihuela, Spanish Immersion Teacher, Patrick Henry K-8, Long Beach Unified School District
Tracy Pumilia, Principal of El Marino Language School
Maria Quezada, CEO and Executive Director of California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)
Nancy Rhodes, Director, Foreign Language Education at The Center For Applied Linguistics (CAL)
Karlo Silbiger, Alumni, Member of CCUSD School Board, Teacher at Animo Venice Charter High School
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, University of Southern California
Judith Martin-Straw, Culver City Crossroads Online Newspaper & Parent of Immersion Children in both Japanese and Spanish Immersion
Duarte Silva, Executive Director, The California Foreign Language Project
Lidia Velasco, (Invited) Secondary Dual Language Curriculum Specialist, Ysleta Independent School District, El Paso, Texas
Mike Yamakawa, Japanese Immersion Teacher, El Marino Language School
Questions:
Madeline Ehrlich (English)
Marielena Lara-Greenberg (Spanish)
Sato Akiko (Japanese)
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