2-NIGHT MEET ON EDUCATION SET FOR OCTOBER PANELISTS TO DISCUSS CULTURE, ACHIEVEMENT FOR STUDENTS.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- An education conference aimed at civic leaders, education administrators, counselors, teachers, community advocates, parents and students will discuss aligning achievement levels for a culturally diverse student population. Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. President Jackie Fisher, attorney and former teacher Russlyn Ali, local school superintendents and professors from University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine, California Irvine is an incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28 1971, the 69.7 square mile (180.5 km²) city has a population of 202,079 (as of 2007). State University, Northridge, and Hamline University Hamline University was founded in 1854 in Red Wing, Minnesota, USA, as the first institution of higher education in the state. in Minnesota are slated to speak at EdInterface 2006, organized by Interface Events Management. The two-night conference will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 25 and 6 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Essex House Essex House can refer to:
1. Conference Center. The conference will focus on: The disparity in student achievement within a culturally diverse student body population. Critical achievement gap issues such as contributing factors and stakeholders' responsibility. Understanding the cultural dynamics of achievement. Communication strategies to inform and engage the community in the education process. The conference will offer an educator's workshop on Oct. 25 and a panel/forum event on Oct. 26. Ticket sales begin in September. Tickets will not be available at the door. The scheduled workshop presenter is Paul C. Gorski, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Hamline University in Minnesota and an executive committee member of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Ali, the keynote speaker for the panel/forum event, is the founding director of the Education Trust-West, the West Coast arm of the national policy organization the Education Trust. Ali has served as a member of the California Quality Education Commission and is a member of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence and the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. Board of Education's curriculum and instruction committee. Fisher has been Antelope Valley College president since 2004 and, before that, was vice president of academic affairs. Before coming to Antelope Valley College in 1998, he worked as dean of instruction at Bakersfield College BC was founded in 1913 and initially housed on the campus of Bakersfield High School (then Kern County Union High School) before moving in 1956 to its current location "on the hill" in northeast Bakersfield. . Panelist Theresa Montano, a CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge professor, is a member of the National Education Association board of directors for higher education and the past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Panelist Chuansheng Chen is a professor of psychology and social behavior at UC Irvine. He does cross-national and cross-ethnic research on children's achievement and well-being. Panelist Linda Wagner is superintendent of the Keppel Union School District and the president of the Antelope Valley Superintendent's Association. Wagner was the founding principal of Palmdale's Los Amigos School, a dual-language public elementary school. Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale Superintendent David Vierra and Westside Union School District Superintendent Regina Rossall will be masters of ceremonies. Registration fee is $135 for both days, or $120 if paid by Sept. 30. Registration fee for Oct. 25 is $65, or $55 if paid by Sept. 30. The fee for Oct. 26 is $85, or $75 if paid by Sept. 30. For more information, go to www.InterfaceEvents.com. |
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