Schedule

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*Building Partnerships to Support Youth of Promise* Diversity Conference 2014 Beatty Center (5 Liberty Street) *Day One*
7:30-8:30 am	Registration – 1st Floor Lobby Continental Breakfast – Tate 200
8:30 am	Welcome Dr. Courtney Howard, Director, Center for Partnerships to Improve Education Dr. Carolyn Walker Hopp, Vice President, National Association of Holmes Scholars Alumni Beatty Center, Wells Fargo Auditorium Room 115
9:00-10:15	Workshop Session 1A Room 214	Conference Session 1A Beatty Center
		Time		Room 216	Room 218	Room 220
	Metacognitive Strategies: The Classroom Possibilities for Training the Brain – Annie Smith and Coddy Carter	9:00-9:35		Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) – Maria Royle, Angela Cozart, and Kimberly Cozart	*Examining U.S. Supreme Court Reaction To NCLB: Connecticut* And Pontiac As Case Studies –** Kendall Deas	Keeping Kids in the Classroom: Teachers as Advocates of Children’s Civil Rights – Jennifer Doyle
		9:40-10:15		Active Engagement for English Learners – Kindra Lee Simon	Standards Blending English Language Arts and Self Advocacy Skills – Melissa Moul, Josephine Olson, and Rita Schellenberg	Community Collaboration: The story of an effective university, public schools and non-profit partnership – Beth Quick
	Break
10:30-11:45	Workshop Session 1B Room 214	Conference Session 1B Beatty Center
		Time		Room 216	Room 218	Room 220
	Collaborating in the Classroom for Second Language Learners with Language impairments – Kimmerly Harrell and Paula Bello	10:30-11:05		A Partnership Model for Promoting Positive Youth Development thorough Sports – Michael Hemphill	“Trauma Informed Play Therapy: Promoting Resilience in At-Risk Children” – Josephine Olsen and Rita Schellenberg	TRIO Panel Discussion: racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Federal TRIO Programs – Moderated by Leroy Lewis, Jr., Community Outreach Coordinator
		11:10-11:45		Storytelling to Enhance the Learning of Fourth Grade Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Students – Renard Harris	“Play deprivation & implication for juvenile violence among at-risk children” – Josephine Olson and Rita Schellenberg
12:00 pm 12:45-1:15	Luncheon Is it Really the Teacher? Keynote Speaker, Dr. Meta Van Sickle Alumni Center (86 Wentworth Street)
1:30-2:45	Workshop Session 1C Room 214	Conference Session 1C Beatty Center
		Time	Room 216		Room 218	Room 220
	Language and Cultural Communication: Redefining Literacy – Carolyn Walker Hopp	1:30-2:05	The Importance of Mastery in Children’s Lives: An Exploration of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – Keonya Booker		Why Poverty Matters for Schools, Teachers, and Communities – Tammy Pawloski	The Promise of School-University Partnerships in Diverse School Settings – Tambra Jackson and Tasha Laman
		2:10-2:45	Exploring rigor in the classroom: Interpret, align, differentiate to maximize student potential – Kelly S. Brooksher			Designing College –Transitional programs to aid the academic and graduation success of African American Students – Teresa Smith
Break
3:00-4:15	Workshop Session 1D Room 214	Conference Session 1D Beatty Center
		Time		Room 216	Room 218	Room 220
	Building Partnerships on all Fronts in P-20 Education: Engaging Scholarship across Disciplines, Communities, Geography, and Grants – Drs. Aretha Marbley and Diana Gonzales Worthen	3:00-3:35		It Takes a Village to Shape GEMS – Charlease Kelly-Jackson and Kelly Bodner	“We’re Like a Community; we grab power where we can”: Latino immigrant youth identity and belonging in a community-school partnership – Sophia Rodriguez	Civil Rights for Migrant & Immigrant Children/Youth – Stephen Boags, Bruce Wright, and Simaya Van Dooren
		3:40-4:15		Who am I? Reading, Writing, and Producing Selfhood in Community – Margaret Hagood	Service Learning with Diverse Families and Children: Promoting Community Partnerships, Engagements, and Cultural Competence – Ashley Vaughns	Berkeley Palms Academy – Charissa M. Owens
4:30-5:00	Plenary Dr. Courtney Howard, Director, Center for Partnerships to Improve Education Supporting Students Through Civil Rights Enforcement Margaret Olmos, Chief of Staff, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education Beatty Center, Wells Fargo Auditorium, Room 115

*Building Partnerships to Support Youth of Promise* Diversity Conference 2014 Beatty Center Day Two 5 Liberty Street Sunday, October 12, 2014
8:00-9:00 am	Registration – 1^st Floor Lobby, Beatty Center Continental Breakfast – Tate Center, Suite 200 (adjacent to Beatty Center)
9:00-10:15 am	Conference Session 2A
	Time	Wells Fargo Auditorium, Rm 115	Room 216
	9:00-9:35	School Discipline: Alternatives to and Consequences of Exclusionary Discipline Margaret Olmos, Chief of Staff, Office of Civil Rights, US Department of Education	Cultural Competency: Capitalizing on the Strengths of Different Cultures in a Multicultural Society Drs. James Takona and Saman Hassan
	9:40-10:15		Diversity Bridge-Building: All Bricks and Mortar Welcome Drs. Mary Ann Hartshorn and Linda Wharton
BREAK
10:30-11:45 am	Conference Session 2B
	Time	Wells Fargo Auditorium, Rm 115		Room 216
	10:30-11:05	Call Me MISTER Panel Discussion with Pre-Service Teachers Moderated by Dr. Roy Jones, Director of Call Me MISTER Program at Clemson University		Alternative Methods to Address Diversity P-16 Drs. Rhonda Jeffries and Kay Banks
	11:10-11:45	Call Me MISTER Panel Discussion with In-Service Teachers Moderated by Dr. Roy Jones, Director of Call Me MISTER Program at Clemson University		Promoting Diversity in Afterschool with Higher Education Partnerships Dr. L. Daniele Bradshaw
12:00-1:30 pm	Luncheon, Stern Center Ballroom, 4^th Floor (71 George Street) Welcome by Dean Fran Welch, School of Education, Health, & Human Performance, College of Charleston Introduction of Keynote Speaker by Dr. John Bello-Ogunu, Associate Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Institutional Diversity, College of Charleston Creating a Culture of Success for All Students Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, III, President, University of Maryland Baltimore County
1:35-2:00 pm	Plenary, Stern Center Ballroom Dr. Angela Cozart, Co-Chair of National Diversity Conference Committee, Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, College of Charleston

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