(NAME-MCE) FREE event - Oct 21, 2009

[Bill Howe]

*New England Conference on*

*Multicultural Education (NECME)*

*“Using Culturally Responsive Teaching to Close the Achievement Gap:*

*Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Applications”*

*Wednesday, October 21, 2009*

*8:30 a.m. to Noon*

Millard Auditorium - University of Hartford

200 Bloomfield Avenue

West Hartford, Connecticut 06117

Limited free parking in Lot “F” - adjacent to Lincoln Theater

*Registration: *You may register online at www.aces.org. There is no fee,
but space is limited. Registration deadline is October 9, 2009.

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*About the Keynote Speaker:

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine* is the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus
at Emory University and Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Irvine’s specialization is in multicultural education and urban teacher
education, particularly the education of African Americans. Her books
include, Black Students and School Failure, Growing Up African American in
Catholic Schools, Critical Knowledge for Diverse Students, Culturally
Responsive Lesson Planning for Elementary and Middle Grades, In Search of
Wholeness: African American Teachers and Their Culturally Specific Pedagogy,
and Seeing with the Cultural Eye. In addition to these books, she has
published numerous articles and book chapters and presented hundreds of
papers to professional education and community organizations.

Some of awards and recognitions include: American Educational Research
Association (AERA)’s Outstanding Achievement Award - Research Focus on Black
Education (RFBE) SIG; Distinguished Career Award from Committee on the Role
and Status of Minorities; Dewitt-Wallace/AERA Lecture Award; President’s
Distinguished Service Award from the SIG: RFBE; AERA Social Justice Award;
Division G’s award for Outstanding Service in the Preparation of the Next
Generation.

The American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education has recognized her
work with the Outstanding Writing Award; Hunt Lecture; and the Lindsay Award
for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education. Emory University noted Dr.
Irvine’s accomplishments with The Distinguished Emory University Faculty
Lecture and Award; Thomas Jefferson Award, an award given at Commencement to
a faculty for their contributions in research and service; and Emory
University’s Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching Graduate
Education.

Finally, Dr. Irvine was elected to the National Academy of Education in
2007.





*Panel Discussion*



*Moderator:*

Dr. Maria Pacheco, Co-Director, New England Equity Assistance Center, The
Education Alliance at Brown University

*Panelists: *

Dr. Sonia Nieto, Professor Emeritus, UMASS Amherst

Dr. Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Professor Emeritus, Emory University, and
Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland

Dr. Marion H. Martinez, Associate Commissioner, Connecticut State Department
of Education, Division of Teaching, Learning and Instructional Leadership

Dr. Elizabeth “Ann” Carabillo, Director of Curriculum & Instruction, New
Britain Public Schools

Mr. John Nguyen, History Teacher, James Hillhouse High School, New Haven
Public Schools









*After the morning NECME Conference*

*Join CT Chapter
National Association for Multicultural Education *

*Noon-3:00 pm*
Lunch (Bring your own or purchase in cafeteria)

Tour of the University High School of Science & Engineering
Magnet School

CT NAME Annual Meeting and book raffle

*1:30 pm - 2:30 pm*

* “**Becoming a Multicultural Educator: A Teacher's Journey**”*

* Discussion led by Sonia Nieto*

*Professor Emerita, Language, Literacy & Culture*

*University of Massachusetts, Amherst School of Education*

*Please RSVP to Aileen Halloran, president of CTNAME at **ahalloran at crec.org
* <ahalloran at crec.org>

*www.ctname.org* <http://www.ctname.org/>

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*About Sonia Nieto*

*Sonia Nieto* is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture,
School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Born and raised
in Brooklyn, New York, she was educated in the New York City Public Schools.
She attended St. John’s University, Brooklyn campus, where she received a
B.S. in Elementary Education in 1965. Upon graduation, she attended New York
University’s Graduate Program in Madrid, Spain, and received her MA in
Spanish and Hispanic Literature in 1966. A junior high school teacher of
English, Spanish, and ESL in Ocean Hiil/Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1968 she
took a job at P.S. 25 in the Bronx, the first fully bilingual school in the
Northeast. Her first position in higher education was as an Instructor in
the Department of Puerto Rican Studies in Brooklyn College, where she taught
in a bilingual education teacher preparation program co-sponsored with the
School of Education. Moving to Massachusetts with her family in 1975, she
completed her doctoral studies in 1979 with specializations in curriculum
studies, bilingual education, and multicultural education.

Dr. Nieto has taught students at all levels from elementary through graduate
school and she continues to speak and write on multicultural education,
teacher preparation, the education of Latinos, and other culturally and
linguistically diverse student populations. Her book *Affirming Diversity:
The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education* (5th ed, 2008, with
co-author Patty Bode), is widely used in teacher preparation and inservice
courses. Other books include *The Light in Their Eyes: Creating
Multicultural Learning Communities* (1999, 2010), *Language, Culture, and
Teaching* (2002, 2010), *What Keeps Teachers Going? *(2003) and three edited
volumes, *Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools* (2000), *Why We
Teach*(2005), and
*Dear Paulo: Letters From Those Who Dare Teach *(2008). She has received
many awards for her advocacy and activism, including the 1997 Multicultural
Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural
Education, an Annenberg Institute Senior Fellowship (1998-2000), the
Outstanding Language Arts Educator of the Year from the National Council of
Teachers of English (2005), the 2008 Social Justice in Education Award from
the American Educational Research Association, and honorary doctorates from
Lesley University (1999), Bridgewater State College (2004), DePaul
University (2007), and Manhattanville College (2009). She is married to
Angel Nieto, a former teacher and children’s book author, and they have two
daughters and eleven grandchildren.