Summit Program

LEAD IV Summit
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Santos Manuel Student Union, CSUSB

2013 LEAD Summit Official Program

Program At-A-Glance

8:00 AM: Check-In - Live Music

9:00 AM: Opening Ceremony

9:10 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:10 AM: Advocacy Update

10:30 AM: Morning Address

11:00 AM: Break / “Un Cafecito” and Live Performance

11:15 AM: Forum Series

12:00 PM: Lunch / Live Entertainment

1:20 PM: Afternoon Plenary

2:10 PM: Panel Discussion

3:00 PM: Break / “Otro Cafecito” and Live Performance

3:15 PM Public Service Announcement

3:20 PM: Featured Panel

4:20 PM: Keynote Address

5:20 PM: Concluding Remarks & Acknowledgements

5:30 PM: Networking Reception / Live Music

Program Detail

Masters of Ceremony

Dr. Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.
Professor of Education, and LEAD Executive Director,
California State University, San Bernardino

Elias Escamilla

Assistant Professor, Counselor
Vice President Faculty Association
Mt. San Jacinto Community College

8:00 AM: Check-In - Live Music

• Continental Breakfast, Distribution of Packets and Optional Credit Registration
• Live Music Entertainment ~ Mariachi Generación Musical
• Novelas Educativas™
• FIRME Productions Student Films
• OjoOido-Academics
• "México en tus sentidos" Video ~ Secretaria de Turismo de México

9:00 AM: Opening Ceremony

Color Guard Presentation
Air Force ROTC/Detachment 002
California State University, San Bernardino

Pledge of Allegiance

Cadet Third Class Carrera Lynn Allred
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC)
California State University, San Bernardino

9:10 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Timothy P. White, Ph.D.
Chancellor, California State University
Video Message

Tomás D. Morales, Ph.D.
President
California State University, San Bernardino

Chancellor Bruce Baron

San Bernardino Community College District

Jay Fiene, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Education
California State University, San Bernardino

Honorable Gloria Negrete McLeod

United States House of Representatives (CA-35)

Honorable Jose Medina
California Assembly Member Representing District 61

Video Message

Honorable Josie Gonzales

2013 LEAD Honorary Chair
"Madrina de Honor"

San Bernardino County Supervisor

Representing the 5th District

10:10 AM: Update - "Under Cultural Assault / Apartheid in Arizona"

As the current epicenter of the anti-immigrant movement, groups of educators, students, workers, organizers and immigration activists who live in Arizona, are fighting against policies, practices, and repressive legislation.

The three legs of this Arizona trilogy include:

• SB 1070, the state's racial profiling bill;
  
• HB 2281, the anti-Ethnic/Raza Studies bill; and
  
• Nullification of the 14th Amendment or Birthright Citizenship.

This brief but informative presentation offers the latest update on the resistance and organizing efforts of the past several years in Arizona, and inform others throughout the country on the actions and protests.

Introduction/Moderator: Dr. James Fenelon

Professor of Sociology and
Director of Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies

California State University, San Bernardino

Speaker: Roberto "Dr. Cintli" Rodriguez

Assistant Professor, Department of Mexican American & Raza Studies
University of Arizona, Tucson

Maize Based Ethos Presentation - Part 1

Maize Based Ethos Presentation - Part 2

10:30 AM: Morning Address – "Investing in Community - Investing in Education: Honoring the Social Contract"

Dr. Raul Ruiz is not a politician; he is a public servant and physician, dedicated to serving the community. The son of farmworkers, Raul grew up in Coachella and learned at an early age that the key to attaining the American Dream was hard work and a great education. In the summer of 1990, under the hot desert sun, Raul walked from business to business in the Coachella Valley asking them to invest in their community by contributing to his education. With each investment for college, he made a promise to come back home and serve the community as a physician.

After his education at Harvard, Dr. Ruiz returned to the Coachella Valley, where he utilized his education and experience to not only lead but also serve as a physician, as he had promised. As the founder and director of the Coachella Valley Healthcare Initiative, he brought together stakeholders to improve public health and healthcare access in the Coachella Valley.
Dr. Ruiz's commitment to community service and his humanitarian efforts on behalf of vulnerable populations have earned recognition throughout the Coachella Valley. His story was featured on CNN's Latino in America.

On November 6, 2012, Congressman Dr. Ruiz was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives (California's 36th congressional district) after defeating the redistricted incumbent Representative as a first-time candidate.

Introduction: Suzy A. Sharweed

Academic Coordinator and English Instructor, International Extension Programs - College of Extended Learning, and Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership Program, CSUSB

Speaker: Honorable Raul Ruiz
United States House of Representatives (CA-36)

Moderator: Mary Jane Sanchez-Fulton

Board of Trustee, College of the Desert

11:00 AM: Break / “Un Cafecito” & Live Performance

Grupo Folklórico de UCLA

11:15 AM: Forum Series – “Sustaining, Replicating, and Bringing Up-to-Scale those Programs that Work for Latino Youth”

Focusing on Latino youth is of particular importance because the Latino population is large, growing, and relatively young, but has lower educational achievement than other groups in the nation. Addressing the educational needs of the fastest-growing community in the United States, the Latino community, is therefore vital to our local, regional, state, and national interests.
Given this importance, it is imperative to continue the work of identifying and cataloguing those programs across the U.S. that show evidence of increasing the access, opportunity, and achievement gaps for Latino students. Some programs were shaped specifically to serve young Latinos, while others serve the broader populations or focus on raising student achievement in general, but have shown strong benefits for Latino young people.

Because we know many of the programs making a difference in our community concentrate their limited funds on direct service provision rather than evaluation or marketing, our defining role for the future, as leaders and influencers, is to sustain, replicate, and bring up-to-scale those actionable practices most promising, and unveil a roadmap that is hopeful, solution-oriented and forward-thinking.

This session is a continuation in a series that highlights a few such programs currently making a positive difference in the lives and educational development from early childhood through higher education. Participants will offer descriptions and practical information shown to be effective.

Introduction: Joseph W. Boffa II
ELD/Journalism Teacher, Desert Mirage High School,
and Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership Program, CSUSB

Speakers: Linda Vasquez

Director of Partnerships, New Futuro

Joseph N. Velasquez

Esq., Founder & CEO,
OjoOido-Academics.com LLC

Alicia Maciel

Executive Director of Strategic Development & Partnerships

THINK Together,

Brea-Olinda Unified School District - Board Member

Raul Muñoz, Jr.
Executive Director, MAES – Latinos in Science and Engineering

Moderator: Lorena Corona

Manager, Governmental Relations, Chaffey College,

and Fontana Unified School District Board Member

12:00 PM: Lunch/Live Entertainment

Aztec Dancers - Grupo Xipetotec
sponsored by Watson and Associates

1:20 PM: Afternoon Plenary - “Beyond the Broadcast of PBS' LATINO AMERICANS: a Public Engagement and Education Campaign”

LATINO AMERICANS, a documentary series produced by WETA Washington, D.C.; Bosch and Company, Inc.; and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), will air nationwide on PBS in the Fall of 2013. The three-part, six-hour long series will narrate the story of Latino Americans from 1800 to the 21st Century, starting with the English and Spanish colonies, and following with a survey of milestones in Latino American history. The series will intersect with much that is central to the history of the United States such as multiple wars, the Great Depression and the Civil Rights Movement. LATINO AMERICANS will also go to places where standard U.S. histories do not tend to tread, driven by the human dramas of individuals’ struggles and triumphs, successes and disappointments, people whose stories tell us much about their times.

Members of the production team will discuss the many perspectives brought to the creation of the series. Their collective experience spans filmmaking around the world for news, documentaries and feature films, and individuals on the team have had their work recognized with George Foster Peabody Awards, Imagen Awards, Emmy Awards, Christopher Awards, Erik Barnouw Awards and an NCLR ALMA Outstanding Career Achievement Award.

Panelists will also share the unfolding major bilingual public engagement and education campaign, the corresponding bilingual website with user-generated digital content, social media platforms, and the development and distribution of school-based curricula.

Introduction: Cecilia Ornelas

Faculty Development Campus Leader and English Instructor-General Education Department,
Westwood College, and Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership Program, CSUSB

Speakers: Raymond (Ray) Telles,

Director / Writer / Producer,

LATINO AMERICANS project staff

Antonio Davidson-Gomez

Educational Services Manager

KCTS 9 Public Television - Seattle

Moctesuma Esparza

Award-winning Producer, Entertainment Executive,
Entrepreneur and Community Activist

Moderator: Cesar Caballero

Dean of Pfau Library and University Librarian

California State University, San Bernardino

2:10 PM: Panel - “Serving America’s Future: Increasing College Readiness"

America is facing a new national crisis: Far too many students are coming to college unprepared. The country is devoting increasing resources to remedial education, yet despite this, college graduation rates are far below what the United States requires to address workforce needs and remain globally competitive. If progress is to be made, it will come through collaborative and innovative initiatives that strengthen education across the board—from early childhood through high school and beyond.

Panelists will share a new national report on college readiness and will discuss how higher education can work with P-12 and local community partners to improve college readiness in America.  Reference Material: AASCU College Readiness Report

Introduction: Philip Augustus Lutterodt

Nonprofit Outreach Manager

Student In Need Foundation and

Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership Program, CSUSB

Speakers: Tomás D. Morales, Ph.D.

President

California State University, San Bernardino

Jay Fiene, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Education
California State University, San Bernardino

Kirsten Fleming, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Natural Sciences
California State University, San Bernardino

Dale Marsden, Ed.D.
Superintendent

San Bernardino City Unified School District

Moderator: Mario G. Galicia, Jr.

President, Graduate Students Association,

University of California - Santa Barbara

3:00 PM: Break / “Otro Cafecito” & Live Performance

Mario Olivares

3:15 PM: Public Service Announcement "Connecting Kids to Coverage" Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Allen Villalobos
Executive Director of Corona Norco United Way

3:20 PM: Featured Panel – C’mon, ¡Vámonos! Educational Media and the Impact of Dora the Explorer

Since its August 14, 2000, television debut on Nickelodeon, the award-winning Dora the Explorer has become one of the most-watched pre-school television shows both in the United States and around the world. Dora has proven to be a true break-through figure in a television world in which there were few Latino characters on pre-school television: a joyous, fearless, determined, bilingual Latina, who revels in high-stakes adventures in a magical realism world replete with Latino touches.

In each show, Dora overcomes myriad obstacles with her inquisitive intelligence, facility in Spanish and English, cross-cultural sensibility, and team-building skills. In the process, Dora (and her friends) engages audiences interactively in helping her solve problems, often by using Spanish. Throughout Dora role models careful observation, respectful listening, clear logic, evidence-based decision-making, and the bridge-building value of being bilingual.

With its seamless combining of entertainment and education, using a curriculum based on Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences, the show draws on and expands the varied strengths of young viewers of all backgrounds. Dora and its sequel, Go, Diego, Go!, have become true cross-over phenomena. They have inspired Latino children, who identify with both their ethnicity and their proud bilingualism, while Dora and Diego have also been embraced by non-Latino children.

In this special panel, members of the Dora team will discuss the development of the show and explore its cultural and educational significance within the broader context of children’s television.

Introduction: Charron A. Rodriguez
Kindergarten Teacher / Assistant Principal, Alta Loma Elementary School District

and Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership Program, CSUSB

Speakers: Chris Gifford

Creator and Executive Producer

Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!

Mariana Diaz-Wionczek, Ph.D.

Senior Director of Research and Development

Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!

Carlos E. Cortés, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Riverside,

Creative/Cultural Advisor for Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!

Moderator: Jose L. Rivera
Adjunct Faculty, CSUSB Department of Communication Studies

4:20 PM: Keynote Address - "Educational Alignment: Profiles of Local Innovation"

* Presentation made possible through a working partnership with the University of Texas at San Antonio.

A 38-year-old San Antonio native, Mayor Julián Castro is the youngest mayor of a Top 50 American city. He campaigned on an explicit education agenda when he took office in May 2009 and handily won re-election in 2011 with nearly 82 percent of the vote.
Throughout his tenure, Mayor Castro has focused on attracting well-paying jobs in 21st century industries, positioning San Antonio to be a leader in the New Energy Economy and raising educational attainment across the spectrum. In 2011, the Milken Institute ranked San Antonio the nation's top-performing local economy.

Mayor Castro created SA2020, a community-wide visioning effort turned nonprofit that has galvanized thousands of San Antonians around a simple, but powerful vision for San Antonio - to create a brainpower community that is the liveliest city in the nation. Education emerged as the community's top priority, with a key education goal focused on achieving significant increases in kindergarten readiness so that 95 percent of third grade students read at grade level by 2020.

Under his leadership, the city in 2010 also opened Café College, a one-stop center offering high-quality guidance on college admissions, financial aid and standardized test preparation to any student in the San Antonio area. In its first year, Café College served more than 5,000 area students, spurring an expansion of the facility in 2011.

Mayor Castro entered the national spotlight with his highly anticipated keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention last September, making him the first Latino to receive the honor.

Introduction: Margarita Machado-Casas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies -
College of Education and Human Development,
University of Texas at San Antonio

Speaker: Honorable Julián Castro
Mayor of San Antonio, Texas

Moderator: Ellen Riojas Clark, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies -
College of Education and Human Development,
University of Texas at San Antonio

5:20 PM: Concluding Remarks & Acknowledgements

• Dr. Enrique Murillo, Jr.
  

5:30 PM: Networking Reception / Live Music

• Live Music Entertainment ~ Mariachi Generación Musical
• Appetizers and Refreshments