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Join ALAS as we partner with FETC to host our 2nd Annual Pre-Conference Partner/Match Sessions on January 13-14, 2020 in Miami, Florida!
Our Partner/Match Sessions are designed to provide one-on-one meetings between ALAS education leaders and solution providers to discuss areas of interest for the upcoming year. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to; Curriculum and Instruction, STEAM, Digital Content/Virtual Reality, Online Resources, Facilities, Security, Finance, Leadership, Professional Development, Assessment, English Learners, Data Management and more!
ALAS Members: For your time and commitment, ALAS will cover your room and board for one night and provide current ALAS National members with a $250.00 scholarship to be awarded to an outstanding teacher or student in your school district.
State affiliate groups with 5 or more attendees will receive $2,500 per affiliate, groups with 10 or more attendees will receive $5,000 per state affiliate.
As an ALAS member you get a FREE Basic Pass to FETC that gives you access to:
- 6 dedicated tracks, including the Future of Ed Tech Administrator track
- 3 dynamic Keynote presentations with Daniel Pink, Justin Shaifer and the expert panel of Tech Share LIVE!
- 380+ sessions exploring current and emerging technologies, as well as best practices to plan, integrate and manage it all
- A look into the growing world of esports and how to set up and maintain the technology for this in-demand program.
(Workshops require an additional registration fee.)
FETC® is the premier ed tech conference for administrators, principals and teams!
The Future of Education Technology® Conference is tailored to meet the needs of district administrators, principals and their teams. As a district or school leader, you are always seeking technology-driven solutions, strategies and insights to help you carry out your role. FETC® can provide you with the right resources, experts and answers to do just that.
To get your FREE Basic Pass be sure to register with Promo Code ALAS2020. Interested in upgrading your pass to attend intensive, 2-hour workshops? Use the same Promo Code and just pay the difference for your selected pass rate! Promo code valid for ALAS members only.
ALAS
Calling all ALAS State Affiliates to join us for our 2020 State Affiliates Leadership Conference!
2020 SALC will be hosted by our amazing partners — Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona March 6-8, 2020!
More details will be announced in the coming weeks!
GCU has been a dedicated partner of ALAS and our mission towards achieving equitable access to education for all students. This past year they set out to provide ALAS members with (3) $5,000 scholarships for doctoral or master's programs offered 100% online at GCU. Click here to find out more & apply!
Download the ALAS 2020 Calendar
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Thank you to all of the ALAS members and partners for attending our 16th Annual Education Summit in Orlando, Florida!
In order for ALAS to continue to organize and host great events — we ask that our members provide us with their feedback! Click this link to join the exchange to share your thoughts on this year's Summit!
A special thank you to our keynote speakers for inspiring all of us to continue our work to achieve equity in education for all students! Every year we gather for our national education summit to bring together brilliant minds and exchange ideas and best practices on how to be the best leaders we can be. ALAS thanks everyone who joined us this year, and we invite you all to join us next year in Portland, Oregon!
A special thank you to our partners for supporting ALAS and our work to achieve equity in education!
View the 2019 ALAS Education Summit Partners
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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. Become a member today and be a part of the change you want to see!
Sign up to be an ALAS member for 2019–2020
Visit ALAS website to join ALAS or renew your membership!
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ALAS granted a $10,000 scholarship and a $2,000 scholarship this year thanks to our partner Curriculum Associates who sponsored the ALAS scholarships for the fifth consecutive year! Thank you Curriculum Associates!
ALAS recognizes Latinx administrators for their leadership by providing assistance toward an advanced degree in education. The top recipient recieves a one-time $10,000 scholarship award and the runner-up recipient receives one-time $2,000 scholarship award. The scholarships are 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.
Thank you to all the aspiring Latinx Leaders that applied for our scholarships!
2019 ALAS & Curriculum Associates Scholarship Recipients are:
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Belinda Reyes;
Executive Director
for Multicultural Curriculum,
Instruction, and Compliance,
School District of
Osceola County, Florida |
Beatriz Maldonado;
Director of Language
Acquisition, Berwyn South
School District 100,
Illinois |
Congratulations to our scholarship recipients! On behalf of the ALAS Board of Directors and Curriculum Associates, we are honored to present the recipients with this award!
ALAS
ALAS in partnership with Grand Canyon University will award three (3) $5,000 scholarships to attend Grand Canyon University in either the M.Ed. Educational Administration, Doctor of Education (Ed.D), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), or Doctor of Business Administrations (DBA) programs this fall. The programs are offered 100% online.
View Eligibility Requirements & Application Process
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The purpose of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is to obtain data related to the nation's public school districts and elementary and secondary schools' obligation to provide equal educational opportunity. The Trump administration is currently working to roll back the enforcement of civil rights laws by undermining the federal data collections.
The CRDC contains excellent reports on data that include: per pupil expenditures (and comparing them between districts and schools), school enrollment, gifted and talented enrollment, AP enrollment, suspension and expulsion categorized by student demographics. The public portal to use it is: https://ocrdata.ed.gov/DistrictSchoolSearch.
The following contains a list of data points that are at risk of being removed from the CRDC: (Note they are attempting to get rid of ALL school finance data collection)
Discipline
- Students who received one out-of-school suspension:
- Number of preschool students who received one out-of-school suspension (disaggregated by race, sex, disability-IDEA, EL);
- Students who received more than one out-of-school suspension:
- Number of preschool students who received more than one out-of-school suspension (disaggregated by race, sex, disability-IDEA, EL);
Harassment or Bullying
- Whether an LEA has a web link to policy or policies prohibiting harassment or bullying of students on the basis of all of the following: sex; race, color, or national origin; disability (LEA).
Early Childhood Education
- Whether LEA's early childhood program(s) serve non-IDEA children age birth to 2 years (LEA). Whether preschool is provided to: all students, students with disabilities (IDEA), students in Title I schools, students from low income families (LEA).
- Whether preschool serves non-IDEA students age 3 years; age 4 years; age 5 years (LEA).
- Preschool length offered (full-day, part-day) and cost (free, partial/full charge) (LEA).
- Number of students ages 3-5 years enrolled in preschool (disaggregated by race, sex, disability-IDEA, EL).
- Kindergarten length offered (full-day, part-day) and cost (free, partial/full charge) (LEA).
Pathways to College and Career
- Number of students who participate in at least one credit recovery program that allows them to earn missed credit to graduate from high school.
- Number of students enrolled in at least one AP course in specific subject area (disaggregated by race, sex, disability-IDEA, EL):
- Other AP subjects of any kind (including world languages and cultures).
- Number of students who took one or more AP exams for one or more (which may include all) AP courses enrolled in (disaggregated by race, sex, disability-IDEA, EL).
- Number of students who were enrolled in one or more AP courses but who did not take any AP exams (disaggregated by race, sex, disability-IDEA, EL).
School Finance
- K-12 personnel FTEs and salaries at the school level (funded with state and/or local funds):
- Number of FTE teachers and amount of their salaries;
- Number of FTE instructional aides and amount of their salaries;
- Number of FTE support services staff (for pupils and for instructional staff) and amount of their salaries;
- Number of FTE school administration staff and amount of their salaries; and
- Total amount of total personnel (instructional, support services, and school administration) salaries.
- Preschool-12 personnel FTEs and salaries at the school level (funded with federal, state, and/or local funds):
- Amount of teacher salaries;
- Number of FTE instructional aides and amount of their salaries;
- Number of FTE support services staff (for pupils and for instructional staff) and amount of their salaries;
- Number of FTE school administration staff and amount of their salaries; and
- Total amount of total personnel (instructional, support services, and school administration) salaries.
- Total amount of non-personnel expenditures at the school level:
- Amount of non-personnel expenditures (funded with state and/or local funds); and
- Amount of non-personnel expenditures (funded with federal, state, and/or local funds).
Teachers and other Personnel (funded with federal, state, and/or local funds)
- Number of FTE first-year teachers.
- Number of FTE second-year teachers.
- Number of FTE teachers absent more than 10 school days (excluding professional development).
The Trump administration has proposed to roll back on the data collection in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which closes November 18, 2019 at 11:59pm. ALAS urges our members to submit a public comment using this portal. The request for potential members is simple: don't roll back any collection of CRDC data.
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The total number of long-term English Learners (ELs) in US schools is increasing, but that’s not all. This illustrates why goal setting is the top priority when developing a plan for ELs. Read here how one California district designed a replicable path toward achieving this goal.
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ALAS
The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) stands with the Hispanic Education Coalition (HEC), which unities 17 national organizations dedicated to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for the more than 59 million Lations and Latinas living in the United States and Puerto Rico, write to oppose Mr. Allen's amendment to the H.R. 4674, the College Affordability Act.
If enacted, the amendment would exclude institutions of higher education that grant immigrant students instate tuition from receiving federal benefits, including allowing any of their students to access federal financial aid. Read the amendment here.
| Meet the ALAS Board of Directors
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President:
Ana V. Ortiz
Retired Superintendent
Oxford Public Schools
Oxford, Connecticut
(Term expires 10/20) |
President Elect:
Dr. Francisco Duran
Chief Equity Officer;
Virginia State Board of Education Member
Fairfax County Public Schools
Falls Church, Virginia
(Term expires 10/20) |
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Treasurer – Director
Region 2 Northwest:
Dr. Gustavo Balderas
Superintendent
Eugene School District 4J
Eugene, Oregon
(Treasurer Term expires 10/20,
Regional Term expires 10/22) |
Secretary – Region 5 Midwest:
Dr. Charles Johns
Superintendent
Glenbrook High School District 225
Glenview, Illinois
(Secretary Term Expires 10/20,
Region 5 Term Expires 10/21) |
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Director – Region I West:
Dr. Ruth Perez;
Superintendent
Paramount
Unified School District, CA
(Term expires 10/21) |
Director – At Large
Higher Education:
Dr. Maria Ott
Executive in Residence
USC School of Education
Los Angeles, California
(Term expires 10/21) |
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Director – Region 3
Southwest:
Dr. Lily DeBlieux
Superintendent
Pendergast Elementary
School District
Phoenix, Arizona
(Term expires 10/21)
| Director – Region 6
Northeast:
Dr. Alex Marrero
Assistant Superintendent
East Ramapo Central
School District
Spring Valley, New York
(Term expires 10/22) |
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Director – Region 4:
Juan E. Cabrera Jr. JD.
Superintendent
El Paso Independent
School District
El Paso, Texas
(Term expires 10/22) |
Director at Large:
Dr. Danna Diaz
Superintendent of Schools
Reynolds School District
Reynolds, OR
(Term expires 10/22) |
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ALAS currently has 17 State Affiliates across the nation. Their primary mission is to increase the support and networking for Latinx leaders as well as advocate for all students, especially the underrepresented Latinx students in their state communities. They are an extension of ALAS by which they serve to build a solid network of influence and advocacy at the national level.
Learn more about our State Affiliates
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Stay up to date with all ALAS happenings by joining ALAS Every Third Friday of the Month for our ALAS State Affiliates Call! Email contact@alasedu.org to RSVP. Upcoming Call is Friday, November 15 at 3:00 p.m. ET.
| Upcoming NYC NYSALAS Networking Events!
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NYC Regional Meeting and Networking Event
Friday, December 13, 2019 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
NYC L3: Linking Latina Leaders Network Event
Friday, February 28, 2020 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
NYC Regional Meeting and Networking Event
Friday, April 3, 2020 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
| New Postings Every Week on ALAS Website!
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11/08/19 — Deputy Superintendent, The Springfield, Missouri Public School District, MO
11/08/19 — Director of Academics, Mission Achievement and Success Charter School, NM
11/08/19 — Principal, Cristo Rey St. Viator College, NV
11/08/19 — Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, Wonderful College Prep Academy, CA
11/07/19 — Superintendent, Center School District, MO
11/06/19 — Director of Youth Development and Social Innovation, City of Las Vegas, NV
11/06/19 — Superintendent, Fort Wayne Community Schools, IN
11/06/19 — Chief Technology Officer, Clark County School District, NV
11/05/19 — Superintendent, Willingboro, NJ
11/05/19 — Superintendent, Rockville Centre School District, NY
11/05/19 — Superintendent, DeKalb County School District, GA
11/01/19 — Principal, Missouri Public School District, MO
11/01/19 — Superintendent, Madison Metropolitan School District, IL
10/30/19 — Associate Superintendent of Education, Woodland School District 50, IL
10/30/19 — Superintendent, Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, MO
10/24/19 — Assistant Superintendent for Business, New Paltz Central School District, NY
10/24/19 — Executive Director, First 5 Contra Costa, CA
10/24/19 — Principal, Annandale High School, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
10/18/19 — Superintendent, Piper USD 203, KS
10/18/19 — Senior Account Executive, NWEA, CA
10/8/19 — Superintendent, Bloomfield Hills Schools, MI
10/08/19 — Superintendent, Indian Prarie School District, IL
10/08/19 — Superintendent, Orland School District, IL
10/08/19 — Superintendent, Hillsborough County Public Schools
10/01/19 — Principal, Lee High School, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
10/01/19 — Superintendent, School District of Indian River, FL
VISIT ALAS WEBSITE FOR MORE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES & INFORMATION!
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Education Week
When the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case about the Trump administration's effort to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the 700,000 recipients of the program's relief from deportation will be on edge. Many of those undocumented immigrants who came to this country as children are students, including some still in high school, while others are now working as educators.
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Language Magazine
Our language shapes our individuality and how we interact with those around us, and our focus in life. The language or languages we speak are who we are. Some of our students grew up bilingual/multicultural in Los Angeles, Chicago or border towns with Mexico. One co-author of this article grew up on the border in both Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. In that border community, she used a combination of English and Spanish to navigate between cultures and establish relationships.
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The (Allentown) Morning Call via the Associated Press
Students at Allentown's Harrison-Morton Middle School look forward to hearing the squeaky wheels of the technology cart approaching their classroom, though the iPads they hold may not be the latest models and time with them is limited.
A luxury in Allentown schools, such technology has become a necessity for many suburban students — something they're accustomed to tapping at-will and often.
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Forbes (commentary)
Cody Sanford, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "It wasn't until my first job out of college — one in the wireless business — that I developed a passion for technology and saw how STEM impacts everything we do. This was the spark that led me to fall in love with the network engineering elements of wireless, and the more immersed I got in the industry, the more exposed and interested I was in other components of technology."
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EdTech Magazine
It’s something school IT leaders and other educators know well: Safety and security are crucial to learning. And schools have a lot to protect — starting, of course, with people and including millions of dollars (or more, for larger districts) of hardware, physical structures and other assets. IP video systems should be a key part of most organizations’ security strategies, particularly those with distributed environments. Ask these questions when installing IP video cameras.
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EdScoop
New technology and increased internet connectivity is reshaping the K-12 landscape, but with many schools still left without broadband access, education stakeholders should pursue initiatives and policies to support digital equity for students, education leaders advocating for broadband access said in Washington D.C.
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By Glory Ressler (commentary)
 The early learning and child care sectors in Canada are increasingly using technology to document children's learning, communicate with families and engage in continuous professional learning activities. Today's families have expectations of technology-rich communication with their children's educators, and today's students are increasingly adept at using technology to bolster their own efficiency and professionalism. Many will begin their careers in centres and programs that use sophisticated software for communication, documentation and planning, and they will need to be up to the task.
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School News Network
As today's technology gets into the hands of younger and younger kids, a high school class of coders looks extremely natural creating an app. In a recent Kenowa Hills computer science class led by teacher Ed Beickman, the students catch on quickly while coding android apps. "They started off the school year designing games and are now doing a survey taker app," said Beickman, in his second year teaching at Kenowa Hills, but first year using Project Lead the Way, a national program that offers curriculum, training and resources for STEM-related courses. "We're now designing an app that serves a purpose, makes your life or job easier: purposed based programming."
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NJ Spotlight
Over the years, computer science hasn't always gotten its due in New Jersey's public schools. For more than a decade, New Jersey has included computer and technology skills among those students are expected to learn in school. To that end, there is a wealth of courses and even whole schools and academies centered on STEM and computer skills.
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Education Dive
Coinciding with the release of a new report, "The Broadband Imperative III: Driving Connectivity, Access and Student Success," State Educational Technology Directors Association members went to Capitol Hill this week to urge lawmakers to develop initiatives and policies supporting digital equity for all students.
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Science Focus
Children who spend more time in front of screens appear to have structural differences in their brains and scored lower on tests than those with a stricter media relationship, researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre have found.
The team looked at the brains of 47 healthy children aged 3 to 5 to find out if the use of screens, such as TVs and smartphones, had visible effects on the brain.
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Education DIVE
U.S. 8th graders can use computers to gather basic information and make simple edits. They also have some awareness of security risks in the digital world. But they’re less likely to understand the purpose of sponsored content on a website, use generic mapping software or know how to control color and text when creating a presentation.
Those are among the 2018 results of the International Computer and Information Literacy Study released by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, which also conducts other large-scale international studies.
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U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education announced today that it invested $540 million to support science, technology, engineering and math education, including computer science, through discretionary and research grants in Fiscal Year 2019, in accordance with President Trump's directive to foster expanded opportunities in these in-demand career fields. "This Administration continues to make strategic investments in STEM education and is working to ensure that all Americans access to high-quality STEM education no matter where they are in their life-long learning journeys," said U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. "I'm thankful to the President for his leadership on this issue and his commitment to the success of all of America's students."
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Language Magazine
For English learners to make vital second-language strides, they must participate daily in a range of supported academic interactions with their peers and teachers. Merely providing opportunities to "turn and talk" or "think, pair, share" will not ensure development of English language understandings and skills. When assigned interactive tasks without relevant language support and clearly established objectives, English learners tend to focus more on "friendly discourse" than on producing conceptually competent responses with linguistic accuracy.
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Red & Black
The University of Georgia offers classes in more than 30 spoken world languages to students. Those looking to become multilingual might consider taking one of these courses, but those already studying a language at UGA know that it’s essential to commit to the language outside of the classroom. The Red & Black has compiled a list of out-of-class methods and manners for you to boost your language skills, so you can take your skills gained in your Spanish minor with you for life.
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By: Debra Josephson Abrams (commentary)
 "Memories of Home" was featured this past summer on "Morning Edition," one of NPR’s award-winning stalwarts. In the segment, co-host Rachel Martin and NPR "resident poet" Kwame Alexander discuss poetry for "remembering where you’re from in order to move forward." The segment was based on the poem, "Where I’m From" by Kentucky’s 2015 poet laureate, George Ella Lyon. Martin and Alexander asked listeners "to write one of these yourselves. Draw on all five senses and use memories of your own to craft poems that reflect the people and the places that you came from." As fascinated as I was by the project and as much as the request "got my creative juices flowing," I had a quibble.
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Forbes
Language comes in many forms. An activity such as reading a newspaper, for example, can be described in concrete terms (“flipping pages,” “processing words”) or it can be described in the abstract (“attaining knowledge,” “expanding one’s world view”).
In new research forthcoming in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a team of psychologists led by Priyanka Joshi of San Francisco State University find that people in positions of power tend to communicate more in the abstract.
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Education Week
A study of 26 states and their preschool programs finds that as of roughly two years ago, a mere 1 percent of Latino children and just 4 percent of black children in those states were enrolled in "high-quality" state-backed early-learning opportunities.
That's one main conclusion from a new report from the Education Trust, an education civil rights advocacy group.
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