Culturally Responsive Teaching, Leadership, and Counseling (CRTLC)

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4th Annual CRTLC 2009 - "From Innovation to Action"

The College of Education at UCCS, led by Dean La Vonne Neal, would like to invite you to a K-12 symposium developed for local teachers, leaders, counselors, and administrators. Come and interact with national experts in the areas of culturally responsive teaching, leadership, and counseling. Speakers will share instructional strategies and currcula specifically designed to meet the needs of all students, particularly students from diverse cultural backgrounds, students receiving special education services, and students of color.

Dr. Gwendolyn Webb-Johnson is currently an Associate Professor in Educational Administration and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University. She teaches classes in instructional leadership, epistemologies, special populations, the analysis of teaching behavior, curriculum development, and multicultural education. She spent 7 years at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Special Education where she taught classes in individual differences, behavior management, characteristics of learning disabilities and behavior disorders, and multicultural education.  She was recently awarded the 2008 George Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in Public Service.
Dr. Webb-Johnson has served as an educator for 34 years. She taught English, Speech, and Drama for 7 years, and then served as a Special Education teacher for 8 years in Illinois and Washington, DC. Her favorite K-12 setting is at the junior high level, teaching adolescents demonstrating significant behavioral challenges. She has been teaching teachers for the past 19 years and school administrators for the past 4 years. Her current research interests as an administrator and teacher educator include (a) culturally responsive leadership and pedagogy; (b) culturally responsive teacher development; (c) the disproportionate representation of African American learners in Special Education; (d) instructional/motivational strategies; (e) the empowerment of families in the school context; and (f) culturally responsive and effective classroom management designed to improve educational outcomes for “all” students. She conducts workshops for school boards, administrators, teachers, teaching assistants, diagnosticians, psychologists, community organizations, families and PreK-16 learners in each of these areas. Dr. Webb-Johnson considers it an awesome opportunity and privilege to assist in empowering service providers and families who will in turn, empower “all” learners. 

 Dr. Eugene García held the position of Dean at Arizona State University’s College of Education (now the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education) from July 2002 to July 2006.  Before coming to ASU in 2002, he was Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley from 1995-2001.   In May 2003, he was named Vice President for University-School Partnerships by the President of ASU, Dr. Michael Crow.  This role was to strengthen K-12 education in the state of Arizona by linking together the University and private sector for distribution of fiscal and human resources.  As of July 1, 2006, Dr. García stepped down as dean and assumed the new Vice Presidential role as VP for Education Partnerships – this position will carry on the goal of the first VP position and encompass coordination of teacher preparation across colleges and campuses in Arizona as well as the implementation of the university-public school initiative to establish campus schools.
  Dr. García has published extensively in the area of language teaching and bilingual development.  He served as a Senior Officer and Director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993-1995.  He is currently chairing the National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics funded by the Foundation for Child Development and the Mailman Family Foundation.  He is presently conducting research in the areas of effective schooling for linguistically and culturally diverse student populations funded by the National Science Foundation. His most recent books include, Hispanic Education in the United States: Raíces y Alas, and, Understanding and Meeting the Challenge of Student Diversity — both published in 2001.  A new book, Teaching and Learning in Two Languages:  Bilingualism and Schooling in the United States, (New York, NY:  Teachers’ College Press, 2005) has been released.

His research web site is:
http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/research/rlc/index.html

Attendence is FREE if no credit is desired.

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Credit

One (1) hour graduate credit is available through UCCS for $90.00.
Registration for credit will take place online; students may register before or after the symposium.
Registration and full day attendance are required for the credit.

Sponsors

Sponsorship is an effective way to be involved with the symposium while also representing your group. We have several different options for sponsoring the symposium. Ways groups can sponsor are by providing volunteers, monetary donations, donation of materials to be used or items to be used as gift or prizes, and more.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact Carla Rupprecht at 719-262-4134 or crupprec@uccs.edu.

Contact Us

Carla Rupprecht
Office is located in Columbine Hall 4014
Phone: (719) 262-4134 Fax: (719) 262-3915