Keynotes:
- Dr. Meta Van Sickle — Is it Really the Teacher?
- Margaret Olmos — School Discipline: Alternatives and and Consequences of Exclusionary Discipline
- Dr. Freeman Hrabowski — Creating a Culture of Success for All Students
Workshops:
Annie Smith and Coddy Carter
Metacognitive Strategies: The Classroom Possibilities for Training the Brain
Kathrine Guiterrez
Understanding School Culture to Improve Educational and Community Relations to Impact Student Success
Carolyn Walker Hopp
Language and Cultural Communication: Redefining Literacy
Aretha Marbley and Dr. Leon Rouson
Building Partnerships on all Fronts in P-20 Education: Engaging Scholarship across Disciplines, Communities, Geography, and Grants
Kimmerbly Harrell and Paula Bello
Collaborating in the Classroom for Second Language Learners with Language Impairments
Jacob Easley
From the Culture of Student to the Culture of Schools: Engaging High Impact Practices for Educational Equity and School Effectiveness
Sessions:
Maria Royle, Angela Cozart, and Kimberly Cozart
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Sophia Rodriguez
“We’re Like a Community; we grab power where we can”: Latino immigrant youth identity and belonging in a community-school partnership
Kindra Lee Simons
Active Engagement for English Learners
Kendall Deas
Examining U.S. Supreme Court Reaction to NCLB: Connecticut and Pontiac as Case Studies
Jennifer Doyle
Keeping Kids in the Classroom: Teachers as Advocates of Children’s Civil Rights
Michael Hemphill
A Partnership Model for Promoting Positive Youth Development thorough Sports
Renard Harris
Storytelling to Enhance the Learning of Fourth Grade Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Students
Josephine Olsen and Rita Schellenberg
“Trauma Informed Play Therapy: Promoting Resilience in At-Risk Children”
Josephine Olson and Rita Schellenberg
“Play deprivation & implication for juvenile violence among at-risk children”
Keonya Booker
The Importance of Mastery in Children’s Lives: An Exploration of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Kelly S. Brooksher
Exploring rigor in the classroom: Interpret, align, differentiate to maximize student potential
Tammy Pawloski
Why Poverty Matters for Schools, Teachers, and Communities
Teresa Smith
Transitional programs to aid the academic and graduation success of African American Students
Tambra Jackson and Tasha Laman
The Promise of School-University Partnerships in Diverse School Settings
Charlease Kelly-Jackson and Kelly Bodner
It Takes a Village to Shape GEMS
Melissa Moul, Josephine Olson, and Rita Schellenberg
Standards Blending English Language Arts and Self Advocacy Skills
Margaret Hagood
Who am I? Reading, Writing, and Producing Selfhood in Community
Ashley Vaughns
Service Learning with Diverse Families and Children: Promoting Community Partnerships, Engagements, and Cultural Competence
Rhonda Jeffries, Mary Holloway, and Kay Banks
Alternative Methods to Address DiversityP-16
L. Daniele Bradshaw
Promoting Diversity in Afterschool with Higher Education Partnerships
Donna King
“Don’t Internalize the Dissonance, Intellectualize it.”
Margaret Olmos
School Discipline: Alternatives to and Consequences of Exclusionary Discipline
Panel Discussions:
TRIO Panel Discussion
Call Me MISTER Panel Discussion