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Session 3: Friday, February 6, 2004 from 2:00-3:30 p.m.* *Extended sessions, marked with an asterisk, continue through both Session 2 and Session 3 (from 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.. ) This is the program schedule and details as of January 5. There will be some final changes during the final 5 weeks before the summit, but this is a fairly safe guide for choosing your summit workshops! Locations for these sessions will appear in the final program book.
*Extended Sessions COPING WITH EVER-CHANGING DEMANDS: WHAT ARE THE LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL ISSUES FACING THE SCHOOLS AND TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS AND HOW CAN WE BEST DEAL WITH THEM?This session focuses on a discussion of the current trends, mandates, attitudes and incentives that influence education, as well as their effect on the culture of the school, the curriculum and our daily activities and practices, as well as their effect on teacher preparation programs. Suggestions will be made related to preserving what's best while adapting to change; and for taking a stand as needed. This workshop invites you to join a conversation with the Chancellor's Office, the County Superintendent of Schools, the Chair of the Council of CSU Deans of Education, and a Professor of Educational Leadership SUSAN HIGGINS (moderator) is Dean of the College of Professional Studies at HSU. BEVERLY L. YOUNG is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Teacher Education and Public School Programs for the CSU system. She works with the campus presidents, vice presidents and deans of education in order to facilitate changes in teacher preparation within the 23-campus system. Prior to her work at the Chancellor's Office of the CSU, Dr. Young was a faculty member in teacher education at California State University, Fullerton. STEPHEN KING is Dean of the College of Communications and Education at CSU, Chico. He is currently serving as Chair of the CSU Council of Deans of Education. He has played a leadership role in helping to shape and to publicize activities and positions that the deans assume to promote K-12 education in California and the focus of our credential programs. GARRY EAGLES is Superintendent of Schools for Humboldt County. Before being elected to the office of county superintendent in March 2002, Garry was Assistant County Superintendent of Schools. He has been a teacher, counselor, school psychologist as well as school administrator during his 32-year career in education. BETSY KEAN is Program Coordinator of the Early Assessment and Academic Preparation Program at California State University, Sacramento. During 2003 she was Associate Director of Teacher Education and Public School Programs in the Office of the Chancellor, where she directed the Governor's Teaching Fellowship Program, a post she took after working as a consultant in the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Prior to these positions, Dr. Kean was Professor of Teacher Education at California State University, Sacramento, where she was instrumental in developing teacher education program partnerships with K-12 districts, community colleges, and arts and sciences departments. Higher Education Nelson Hall East, Goodwin Forum THE JOYS AND CHALLENGES OF TEACHING IN ISOLATED RURAL SCHOOLSWhat’s it like to spend all or part of one’s teaching career in an isolated rural school? So much of the educational debate in our nation focuses on large urban districts; what’s it like to teach in a one-room or two-room schoolhouse in the year 2004? How does one develop resources for teaching, curricular enrichment and professional development? What headaches are teachers spared when they teach in small rural districts? What pleasures and successes do they enjoy? CHRIS MAGARIAN has taught K-3 at Junction Elementary School, a two-teacher, K-8 school in the mountains of Siskiyou County for 20 years, sharing in administration from time to time. She is anxious to share the joys AND challenges of teaching, living and growing old in a small, isolated community. Rural Education Harry Griffith Hall 204 THE SCHOOL OF NATURAL RESOURCES (SONAR) OF MENDOINO HIGH SCHOOL: PIONEERS IN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TRAINING FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSYou are invited to participate in a discussion/workshop for the purpose of developing recommendations regarding the importance of including resource management curricula in state educational plans. We will view student-directed video documentation of Mendocino High School's SONAR program as a basis for discussing the need for teaching advanced resource stewardship to high school students. Included in this workshop and discussion session will be the opportunity to develop an outline of topics related to advancing the intent of community-based natural resource education. The outline will be sent to the California High School Initiatives Office of the California Department of Education for their inclusion in recommendations made to the State Board of Education. (#44) WILLIAM LEMOS holds a doctorate in education and has been teaching for over thirty years. His experience in wilderness education and natural history helped secure the grant money from the Department of Education that began the School of Natural Resources program in Mendocino High School. He is the co-director of SONAR, as well as an English teacher in Mendocino. An active member of the environmental community, he is current the vice president of the Mendocino Land Trust. (#44) ROBERT JAMGOCHIAN is a graduate of Humbolt State in biology. He has been teaching for twenty years. A co-director of the SONAR program, he is the owner of Mendocino Maples, an exotic maple business in Mendocino. Model Programs Agate Beach Room, Mezzanine Level of the Jolly Giant Commons ARCATA YOUTH SAVE US! STUDENTS AGAINST VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE SHOW US THE WAYStudents Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) at Arcata High School is a dynamic group of young people who are working to recreate our community and society in a new, non-violent mold. This active cadre trains students and community members to be HIPP in their Help Increase the Peace project training sessions. These student leaders created and organize the yearly Unity Week: an inspirational combination of "teach in" and celebration of tolerance and diversity. Be ready to be an active participant in this session with SAVE students who will act as facilitators, discussion leaders, and group organizers. (#27) STUDENTS from the SAVE group at Arcata High School will lead this session. Organizing for Change Founders Hall 232 MUSIC PROMOTES CREATIVITY, THINKING, JOYSinging, listening, instrument activities, games and literature blend music with curricular areas and promote learning. Research proves music education rewires the brain to work more efficiently in all areas of thinking. Put music in students’ lives every day. This workshop will provide ideas for music activities children love and will demonstrate activities that promote creativity and thinking. A primary goal is to help participants feel more comfortable with music in their curriculum and to foster a joyful experience for both teacher and student. (#38) SANDY OLINGER, recently retired after 32 years in the McKinleyville Union School District, and has taught for 39 years. Her passion, besides children, has always been music. Sandy has taught music and choir in grades K-8, is founder/director of Kids Khoir, has taught workshops for teachers and future teachers throughout the state, is an Orff Specialist, and is a fellow of the Redwood Arts Project. Her workshops are fast paced and enthusiastically presented. Creativity and the Arts Music 131 MORRIS GRAVES CD-ROM: AN INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL TOOL TO INTEGRATE THE VISUAL ARTS IN YOUR CURRICULUMBe the first to view this new educational CD-ROM on the life and work of Morris Graves. Each participant will receive a copy of the CD-ROM and have the opportunity to view it as well as experience hands-on activities. The Morris Graves CD-ROM curriculum is designed to engage fourth- through twelfth-grade students with thematic activities that integrate the visual arts into many core subject areas. The CD-ROM includes a biography and timeline of Morris Graves, a gallery of his work and the work he collected, interviews, video clips and standards-based lesson plans. (#51) JOANNE BERKE is Associate Professor of Art at Humboldt State University where she teaches art education in the Art Department. MICHAEL O'NEILL is an arts educator with an MA in education. Currently he runs the magnet arts program for Eureka Community School. Creativity and the Arts Art 125 EDUCULTURAL SEEDS OF CHANGE: EMPOWERING PARENTS TO DEVELOP THEIR CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, AND ACADEMIC RESOURCESParents are very rarely uninterested in their children’s lives; many parents who appear disengaged from their children’s schooling have been alienated by the dominant socio-economic and cultural system. What programs can help parents to identify and develop their own socio-economic, cultural, and educational resources, and ultimately those of their children? This workshop introduces conference participants, in an experiential manner, to one such program. Through Educultural Seeds for Change, parents begin by engaging in an artistic pursuit of their choice. Through dialogue, research, and critical self-reflection, facilitators help parents to harness their creativity, recognize their resources, and transform these resources into viable economic plans. (#60) VIRGINIA LEA is Assistant Professor of Education at Sonoma State University, and President of the Educultural Foundation, an educational nonprofit organization. She teaches courses in critical multicultural pedagogy and social studies in a multicultural society, and coordinates a program in Vallejo designed to recruit more low-income people and more people of color into the teaching profession. AMRIEKA TAKHAR is the manager of the Educultural Foundation. She has an extensive background in the visual arts, with a developing specialty in contemporary non-Western art. She is committed to contributing to the pluralistic dialogue that surrounds this field of study, including the redefinition of Western-centric views of Art History. Inherent in this process is a critical review of the mainstream of Western education, which endeavors to dictate the ways in which individual knowledge is acquired. Parenting Skills Siemens Hall 108 SOCIAL JUSTICE MISSIONS AND QUEERNESS: HOW ONE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY IS ADDRESSING QUEERNESS AS A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONThis session will describe efforts at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) to contextualize queerness in teacher education. Our panel will describe preliminary efforts to addressing queerness and difference in the College of Education's social justice mission. The panel will articulate current efforts and future plans to address issues surrounding queerness as a difference in the context of education. The panel will describe how they address queerness in education courses by discussing queer students in terms of voice, identity formation, and safety. We also address how CSUSM College of Education addresses social justice and transformation in a historically conservative area. Our efforts have included: including queerness in core education courses, queer research, outreach in community, hiring openly queer professors, supporting the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Student Union and the Teacher Diversity Project, a project to increase diversity in the K-12 teacher pool. (#146) ANNE RENE ELSBREE, PhD, is an openly lesbian professor in the College of Education at California State University San Marcos. Prior to coming to CSUSM, Dr. Elsbree taught at California State University at Chico. GILBERT VALADEZ, EdD, is an openly gay professor in the College of Education at California State University San Marcos. Prior to coming to CSUSM, Dr. Valadez taught at Radford University in Southwestern Virginia. Teacher Education Theater Arts 114 SPIRITUALITY IN THE EDUCATION OF THE WHOLE CHILD: PRACTICING AND TEACHING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GOOD HEARTThe Dalai Lama has observed that, for all the sophistication of the Western educational system, the thing that seems to be lacking is the dimension of enhancing and developing the heart. Many school mission statements as well as curriculum materials pronounce the vision of educating the whole child. Do we? Dr. Kenneth C. Land, in the Department of Sociology at Duke University, has advanced the area of "emotional/spiritual well-being" as one of six indicators for child well being in today's world. What happens when we neglect the spiritual well being of our children in our schools? What happens when we neglect our own spiritual well being in our work of educating, parenting, and being with children? In this session, participants will actively investigate their definitions of spirituality in education as well as their belief systems and practices surrounding the education of the whole child. We will confront the challenges we face as we encounter a deeper consciousness and wisdom of what we are about in our work with children. By attending this session, participants will grow in their understandings of the ethics and the transformational growth process that accompanies the education of the whole child. (#87) EILEEN M. GRIFFIN is the co-founder and director of The Griffin Center for Human Development. The Griffin Center, founded in 1989, is a national organization and resource center committed to helping schools and organizations enhance the educational and life experiences of children and families. Eileen can be reached at emg@westelcom.com. Basic Teaching Skills Moonstone Beach Room, Mezzanine Level of the Jolly Giant Commons EDUCATION INCORPORATED: SELLING OUR SCHOOLSK-12 public schools have long been considered a cornerstone of our democracy, yet multinational corporations now view our schools as publicly funded billboards for their propaganda. Many schools are forced to sign contracts with major corporations just to meet their basic operating needs. However, these corporate handouts come at a high price. University research is now dependent on corporate funding, as is publishing, and access to technology. Schools sign deals to sell corporate products to students that they know will harm their ability to study. In essence, this means our campuses become places where students are the targets of force-fed consumer propaganda rather than education. This workshop will focus on how corporations were historically prevented from invading our schools. From here we will share how some forward thinking educators and activists are trying to protect students today. Participants will walk out of this session with the ability to take the knowledge they have gained and devise strategies to more effectively challenge corporate rule of our schools and lives. (#116) RYAN EMENAKER is on the steering committee of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County. He is currently the co-chair of the City of Arcata Committee on Democracy and Corporations and was recently a graduate student in the Environment and Community Program at HSU. As a college student, he co-founded the Network of Resistance and helped start the Placebo, an all-ages arts and music center. KAITLIN SOPOCI-BELKNAP is Director of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County in Eureka, California, a grassroots organization dedicated to resisting corporate rule at the local level and providing a model for other communities across the United States. She is also a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's (WILPF) Leadership Team of the national campaign to Challenge Corporate Power and Assert the People's Rights, as well as a member of the Coordinating Committee for the Democracy Action Project. She studied education and community at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Organizing for Change Forbes Complex 123 HELPING SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN WITH SENSORIMOTOR IMPAIRMENTS SUCCEED IN THE CLASSROOMParticipants will learn how to identify sensorimotor problems in their students and how to address them in the classroom. Strategies based on The Sensory Diet and The Alert Program will be presented. Common behavior problems that may be sensory related will be examined. Recognition and remediation of handwriting and motor problems will be explored. This is an opportunity to reflect and assess your own classroom environment and develop new techniques to facilitate learning. (#81) JO TENNYSON SAMSON is an occupational therapist and a certified hand therapist with over 15 years of experience. She currently is in private practice specializing in school-based occupational therapy services as well as hand/upper extremity rehabilitation. Jo utilizes her expertise as a hand therapist to identify and remediate handwriting and motor problems in school-age children. She has successfully utilized The Alert Program in classrooms and with individual students. She is completing an MA in education at Humboldt State University. JEANNE E. HAISLIP has practiced as an occupational therapist for over nine years. She also has 15 years of experience as a massage therapist. Jeanne utilizes craniosacral therapy and myofacial release to identify and treat soft tissue impairments impeding success in adults and children. Jeanne is currently working in Humboldt County schools with children with sensory processing problems. She also works with the elderly through the Humboldt Senior Resource Center. Special Populations Klamath River Room, Mezzanine Level of
the Jolly Giant Commons SOCIAL POLLINATION: SPREADING THE SEEDS OF CHANGEHow can we grow goodness? In this workshop we will creatively explore and support ways in which we can all be "social pollinators" in our respective lives. Social pollination occurs in the daily interactions among people with the potential to effect social change. As teachers, leaders, and activists it is up to us to define a value toward what purpose this pollination will serve. (#152) ANN SCHULTE is an assistant professor in the Multiple Subjects Program at the Department of Education at California State University, Chico. Her teaching and research interests include multicultural education and democratic teaching. STEVE SCHUMAN is a former classroom teacher and social activist who owns North Valley Productions (music promotion) and North Valley Produce (organic produce distribution). His interests include sustainable agriculture and community organizing. Organizing for Change Siemens Hall 120 TELLING OUR STORIES: LATINO COLLEGE STUDENTS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCESA panel of HSU Latino students, representing the diversity of the Latino community, will talk candidly about their journey to HSU, their experiences in Humboldt County, and their plans after graduation. They will share the challenges of being the first in their family to leave home and travel north to school. These students will also discuss how HSU (and other universities) can begin to meet the needs of the growing Latino communities. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists. (#174) MARYLYN PAIK-NICELY is Director of the MultiCultural Center at Humboldt State University. She recently finished her doctoral coursework in organizational leadership at the University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, and is working on her dissertation. Marylyn can be reached at mkp2@humboldt.edu. Higher Education Founders Hall 118 MARINE ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCE EDUCATION (MARE): AN OCEAN IMMERSION PROGRAMThis hands-on workshop will provide an overview of MARE and the key elements of the ocean immersion program in our local schools. We will explore a marine science activity as a means to demonstrate the MARE model and the open-ended inquiry method. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss methods to cultivate the parent involvement necessary for hands-on science instruction. There will be a power point presentation of Trinidad's Ocean Month as an example of the MARE program. (#178) CYNTHIA ANDERSON is the parent leader of Trinidad's Family and Schools MARE project. She has a BS in marine biology and an MS in wildlife biology. STEPHANIE STRASSER has a BS in marine biology and zoology and is currently enrolled in HSU's Elementary Education Credential Program. Environmental Education Siemens Hall 117 VIDEO SCREENING: BEING HMONG MEANS BEING FREE--HMONG LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH THE EYES OF A 17-YEAR-OLDThis film highlights the history, culture, and identity of Hmong immigrants and refugees who settled in the United States between 1975 and the early 1990s. This documentary looks at Hmong life in this country through the eyes of the seventeen-year-old program host, Lia Vang. (#202) Discussion facilitator: Jen Matjka Multicultural Education Harry Griffith Hall 225 SCHOOL SUCCESS THROUGH GOOD GOVERNANCEThe workshop will highlight a unique self-governance model for providing American Indian students quality vocational and technical education; the model established through a consortium with two California tribes and two regionally accredited California community colleges. This workshop will present the process and design, and discuss ways to implement and maintain this self-governance model for the benefit of American Indian vocational education students. The Hoopa-Yurok Vocational & Technical Education Program (HYVTEP) is a project funded through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act (P.L. 101-392). (#179) COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH is the director of the Hoopa-Yurok Vocational & Technical Education Program, located in Hoopa, California. She is a credentialed teacher and spent many years working in tribal government and education. Colleen, along with other staff members, has presented this workshop at the National Indian Education Association Annual Conference, as well as to north state community colleges. Additional presenters may include KEVIN SIMMONS, Student Support Coordinator, Salish & Rogue River Tribe; Jolene Gates, Counselor, Karuk Tribe; and Marva Scott, Yurok Tribe. School Cultures and Climates Forbes Complex 148 CREATIVITY: HOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND CREATIVITY AND WHAT SUPPORTS YOUR CREATIVITY? What is creativity and what
role does it play in our lives and the lives of our communities
and our public institutions? What conditions support or undermine
creativity? Why is creativity an essential part of functional
organizational life in the 21st century? A panel will kick off
this discussion and then engage in spirited conversation with
summit participants. (#203) KAREN CARLTON is Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Humboldt State University. She is a former public school teacher and English professor with an abiding interest in the relationship between creativity and education. She earned a PhD from New York University and a lifetime secondary-school credential from UC Riverside. She has worked at HSU since 1977. MARTHA HAYNES is a local photographer whose primary subjects are nature and architecture. She began shooting in 1995 when she moved to California. The light and the land are so much more intense here than on the East Coast where she grew up. Martha's award winning photography has been represented in many local shows and galleries. As a member of the Department of Education, Martha see a direct link between the way she thinks as a photographer and as a teacher, and her skills as a teacher support the work she does as a photographer. PEARLA LAWSON, a veteran teacher of 20 years, presently works with fourth graders at Washington School in Eureka. She has been a district mentor teacher and Disney teacher nominee. Pearla was also a lecturer for the HSU Elementary Education Program. Creativity and the Arts REINVESTING IN THE CIVIC MISSION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION: LIFE PRACTICES FROM THE EAST BAY CONSERVATION CROPS (EBCC) CHARTER SCHOOL'S FIRST THREE YEARSThe Elementary Level of the EBCC Charter School -- which opened in September of 2001 along with the EBCC's Institute for Citizenship Education and Teacher Preparation -- is founded on the belief that young people are our most valuable resource and that it is the urgent responsibility of all our schools and communities to engage young people in creating a safe and civil society. Through service learning, the EBCC unites academics, service, the arts and spiritual development and partners school and community resources toward the purpose of preparing children for the challenges, opportunities and responsibilities of life in a democratic, pluralistic society. The school, located in Oakland, California, serves students in grades K-6 and represents the ethnic, socioeconomic and religious diversity of the San Francisco Bay Area. Joanna Lennon, the EBCC's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Cathleen Micheaels, Director of the EBCC's Institute for Citizenship Education and Teacher Preparation will share lessons learned from planning, launching and implementing both the school and the Institute. The session will feature successes and lessons learned from the school’s first three years including recruiting and hiring teachers, partnering with families of diverse cultural backgrounds, developing a plan for curriculum based on state and national content standards while meeting the diverse needs of students, navigating the challenges of securing the necessary resources, designing appropriate assessments for student learning, fostering spiritual dimensions of service in a public school, sharing the best practices of the school with educators and policy makers and creating partnerships for new models of teacher preparation and professional development. The format of the session will include a brief presentation from key school and Institute staff and will draw on the experiences and knowledge of the participants through an open conversation format with opportunities for questions and reflections. JOANNA LENNON, EBCC's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, has worked for close to twenty-five years in positions related to education, environmental stewardship and youth development. Ms. Lennon has played leadership roles in both the public and private sectors including developing a visitor education and interpretive center for the United States Forest Service; establishing the oldest and largest regional conservation corps in California and serving as Founder and Executive Director of the Natural Resources Institute, an organization dedicated to bringing the United States into the world conservation strategy. Ms. Lennon has a Master's of Science and Secondary Teaching Credential from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught at the middle, high school and university levels. In 2001, Ms. Lennon received the Peter E. Haas Public Service Award which is given annually to recognize a University of California, Berkeley alumnus who “has made a significant public contribution to the betterment of society, particularly at the community level, within the boundaries of the USA." CATHLEEN MICHEAELS, Director of the EBCC's Institute for Citizenship Education and Teacher Preparation, has managed the planning and development of the Institute and the Elementary Level of the EBCC Charter School for the past six years. Previously, Ms. Micheaels served as the EBCC's Project YES (Youth Engaged in Service) Program Manager from 1991 to 1998, a period that earned the program state and national recognition. Ms. Micheaels also facilitated the EBCC's partnerships with the National Service learning Cooperative, the Council of Chief State School Officers National Service learning and the Assessment National Study Group as well as pilot teacher credentialing program partnerships with California State University, Hayward and the University of San Francisco. Ms. Micheaels was a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop where she studied and taught poetry writing and bookmaking. She is a former poet in the school in New York City, Iowa and California. Model Programs Nelson Hall East 113 |
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