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Session Title: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Acceptance…It is Everyone’s Business!

Session Summary: Join us for a conversation on the role we all play in the success of ALL our students, understanding the barriers they face, how to motivate them and ourselves while doing the important work at hand.

We have all experienced inequities in one way or another, each of us plays a role when serving our students, their support systems and our communities to assure their success as they navigate their educational journey.

This session will take you on a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Acceptance for Success journey.

Best practices will be shared along with success and not so successful stories and resources to take back as soon as you return to work.

Key takeaways:

• Sharing of best practices to use as soon as you return to work.

• Data understanding and discussion to follow.

• Inform gaps in the educational process of diverse populations.

• How your role is the key to your and your students’ success.

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Session Title: Practical Resources, Current Latino Higher Education data, and Real Conversation about effective practices to serve Latino student success trajectory in education.

Session Summary: Join in on a real conversation about how to support Latinx students in their success trajectory to college and career. Receive resources (including Spanish student and parent resources) and information including national data on Latino student college success and strategies that show evidence of effectiveness.

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Session Title: Mobilizing our community through the Native Language Assessment Campaign

Session Summary: Educating and empowering our students & parents through a strategic online-to-offline campaign during the pandemic.

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Session Title: Staying Ahead of the Communication Curve: Interacting with Your Community and Telling Your Story

Session Summary: The daunting leap from assistant principal to school principal can be frightening, humbling and awesome. In this presentation, Dr. David Samore and Dr. Patricia Ordóñez-Feliciano share insider tips from the successful experience of two K-12 school leaders who have proven themselves and are willing to share so others may find success and reward as school principals. The good news is that David and Patricia see themselves as lifelong learners who are always prepared and excited to exchange and grow.

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Session Title: Principals For Justice

Session Summary: School based administrators discuss best practices for promoting social justice and culturally relevant learning experiences on their campuses.