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Advocacy Through Engagement: The School-Community Imperative in Educating ALL Children
ATE 2006 Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, February 18-22, 2006
Online registration is now available! Click here to go to the online registration site, or click here to download a pdf file of the registration form.
Program overview now available as downloadable files by day, showing presenters and sessions. Click here to go directly to the download page.)
Make plans now to come to Atlanta and attend the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators. Through active participating in the Annual Meeting, ATE Members can participate in fulfilling the theme, Advocacy Through Engagement: The School-Community Imperative in Educating ALL children. Special strands and rates are available for P-12 classroom educators and administrators. Teacher educators are also encouraged to take advantage of the unique cultural experiences in Atlanta.
Pre-Conference Saturday Workshops
Workshops will be offered on Saturday, February 18. Click here for details. (Special Note: Two new technology workshops, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, have just been added. Registration for them is available through the online registration form, but they were not listed on the registration form sent through the mail. If you have already registered but are interested in attending either Workshop 11 or Workshop 12, call ATE's office at 703-620-3110 or send an email to dritchey@ate1.org).
Just Added: School Site Visits
On Tuesday, February 21, 2006, ATE has arranged to provide school site visits on a space-available basis to the following schools: Capitol View Elementary (2004 National Blue Ribbon), Inman Middle School (1999 National Blue Ribbon), and the New Schools at Carver (five small high schools on the same campus). These schools are located about 10 minutes from the hotel, and tours are expected to run from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (people wishing to stay longer may be able to take cabs back to the hotel). Transportation (by school bus) will be provided; a $5 donation per person to offset the cost of the school buses will be requested. If you are interested, click here to send an email and your name will be put on the list.
Preservice Teacher Strand
On Monday, February 20, a special preservice teacher strand has been designed. Click here for full details and a separate online registration form.
Conference Overview
Saturday, February 18
Governance 8:00-5:00
Workshop Registration 7:30-9:00
Conference Registration 10:00-4:30
Exhibitor Setup 12:00-4:00
Workshops 9:00-4:00
Delegate Assembly 3:00-5:30
Special NCLB Town Hall meeting (open to the public) 6:00-7:30
President's Reception 8:00-10:00
Sunday, February 19
Governance 8:00-5:00
Registration 8:00-4:30
Exhibitor Setup 9:00-11:00
Professional Clinics
9:00-11:15
11:30-1:45
2:00-4:15
Exhibits Open 12:00-4:00
Delegate Assembly 3:00-6:00
Opening General Session:
Town Hall Meeting 6:30-8:00
Community Gathering with Entertainment 8:00-11:30
Monday, February 20
Newcomers' Breakfast 7:00-9:00
Kappa Delta Pi Breakfast 7:00-9:00
Conference Registration 8:00-4:30
Exhibits Open 9:00-4:00
Thematic Sessions 8:00-9:50
Robert J. Stevenson Memorial Lecture 10:00-11:05
Thematic Sessions 11:15-4:30
SIGS 4:30-5:30
Distinguished Educator Lecture 5:30-7:00
Tuesday, February 21
SRATE Breakfast 7:00-9:00
Thematic Sessions 8:00-9:50
Exhibits Open 12:00-4:00
Research General Session 10:00-11:05
Special school site visit 11:00-2:00
Thematic Sessions 11:15-4:05
SIGS 4:15-5:30
ATE Awards Ceremony 7:30-9:00
Wednesday, February 22
Thematic Sessions 8:00-9:50
President's Brunch 10:00-12:00
Note: Featured Panels, Roundtables, Open Hearings, Symposia, and Research Reports, and Graduate Student Research Forum are scheduled concurrently with the thematic sessions. Check the program for the specific times and places.
Note: The Professional Clinics on Sunday, February 19, are available to all participants as part of the registration fee for the Annual Meeting. Check the program for the specific times and locations.
Special No Child Left Behind Town Hall Meeting on Saturday
A special No Child Left Behind Town Hall Meeting will be offered Saturday afternoon, February 18. This meeting is open to the general public and should not be confused with the Opening General Session Town Hall Meeting for ATE's Annual Meeting on Sunday (open to Annual Meeting registrants only and described below). Click here for details on the special NCLB Town Hall Meeting.
(Above, top row left to right, Joe Aguerrebere, Sharon P. Robinson, and Jacqueline Jordan Irvine. Bottom row, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Robert Rivera)
Join other members of the Association of Teacher Educators for a Town Hall Meeting when educational challenges will be identified, discussed, and possible solutions will be offered. Under the leadership of ATE President P. Rudy Mattai, the expertise of Joe Aguerrebere, Linda Darling-Hammond, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Robert Rivera, and Sharon Robinson will provide direction and stimulation for the discussion. The Town Hall Meeting will be followed by a reception featuring local entertainment.
The discussion group will include: Dr. Aguerrebere, the President of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; Professor Irvine, whose specialization is in multicultural education and urban teacher education, particularly the education of African American students; Dr. Robinson, who was recently selected as the president and CEO of AACTE; Robert Rivera, President and CEO of Project GRAD USA (Graduation Reality Achieves Dreams); and Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond.
Linda Darling-Hammond
Robert J. Stevenson Memorial Lecture
After beginning her career as a public school teacher and co-founding of a preschool and day care center, Linda Darling-Hammond received her B.A. from Yale University and her doctorate in urban education, with the highest distinction, from Temple University.
Dr. Darling-Hammond was the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. There, she was the founding Executive Director of the National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future, the blue-ribbon panel whose report What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, catalyzed major policy changes across the United States to improve the quality of teacher education and teaching. Presently, Dr. Darling Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Education at Stanford University. She has launched the Stanford Education Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network.
Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity. Among her 200 publications are The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools that Work, recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award, and Teaching as the Learning Profession, recipient of the National Staff Development Council’s Outstanding Book Award.
Etta Ruth Hollins
Research Lecture
Etta Ruth Hollins joined the Rossier School in the Fall of 2000 as Chair of the Teacher Education Program. The focus of her scholarship is preparing teachers for culturally diverse populations. Formerly, Dr. Hollins served as Associate Dean and Professor of Teacher Education at Wright State University.
Her many contributions to the literature for culturally diverse populations include authoring Culture in School Learning. She has also served as the editor of Transforming Curriculum for a Culturally Diverse Society. In addition she has held the office of senior editor of Teaching Diverse Populations, Preparing Teachers for Cultural Diversity, and Pathways to Success in School.
Other leadership roles have included the co-principal investigator on research looking into teacher development for literacy acquisition among African American children. This was completed in collaboration with the Oakland Unified School District and California State University, Hayward.
She also has recently been the Vice President for Division G of the American Education Research Association (AERA) and a member of the Executive Board. Dr. Hollins is member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the American Educational Research Journal. and served on the Early Career Awards Committee.
David G. Imig
Distinguished Educator Lecture
Dr. Imig, President Emeritus of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), has more than 30 years of experience in educational practice, research, and policy.
He began his professional career in 1961 as a teacher at the Nyakato Secondary School in Bukoba, Tanzania. While completing his graduate work in the Foundations of Education, Dr. Imig was a teaching assistant in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana.
In 1966, he became an education officer with the United States AID mission to Sierra Leone, later transferring to the AID mission in Liberia. He joined AACTE in 1970 as program director for international activities.
Dr. Imig has served on a myriad of panels, committees, boards and task forces on education. He has served on visiting committees for several colleges and universities. He recently participated in international symposia in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, England, and Hungary.
He is an author of a bimonthly column in AACTE Briefs and has contributed chapters to a number of teacher education books.
Dr. Imig will pursue a post-retirement sabbatical at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in Palo Alto, California.
Preservice Student Strand
Network, Share Experiences and Develop Professionally -- Monday, February 20, 9:00-3:30. (On –site registration starts at 8:00) ATE Members are encouraged to bring preservice teachersto this special session. Participants must register in advance or on-site. Preservice teachers will have to opportunity to learn about successful instructional strategies that will enhance the likelihood for success as new teachers.
State Farm Sponsored Programs
ATE is pleased to announce that State Farm has again become a Platinum Level Sponsor for the Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The following featured sessions are presented and sponsored by State Farm:
ATE TOWN HALL MEETING
Sunday, February 19
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Entertainment: Mays High School Concert Choir
Presiding: Annette Digby, Co-Chair, 2006 Planning Committee
Boon Boonyapat, Co-Chair, 2006 Planning Committee
Platform P. Rudy Mattai, 2005-06 ATE President
Guests: David Ritchey, ATE Executive Director
Carrie Robinson, New Jersey City University
Beverly L. Hall, Supt., Atlanta Public Schools
Clair Jennings, Chair, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education
Joni LaDew, State Farm Insurance
Moderator: P. Rudy Mattai
Six Degrees of Preparation
Monday, February 20
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m., Courtland
Based on over 300 interviews with teachers, teacher candidates, teacher educators, teacher leaders and students, 6 Degrees of Preparation examines belief structures in schools, districts and schools of education and the stunning impact they have on new teachers and the children they serve. 1 woman, 15 characters.
Brooke Haycock, Artist-in-Residence with The Education Trust, is a 26-year-old playwright and actor with a background in student organizing. Characterized as provocative, edgy and brutally honest, her theatre pieces have been used as a powerful tool among diverse audiences to spark honest dialogue and focus energies around some of the most pressing and emotionally charged issues we face in American education today.
State Farm Insurances’ Curriculum-Based Service Learning
Monday, February 20
12:15 - 2:05 p.m., Courtland
The presenters will discuss how to incorporate curriculum based service-learning as a vehicle to deliver core academic content in a way that addresses "real life" community issues enhances academic achievement and student engagement. They will share "how-to" information and examples of how service-learning fosters active student learning and innovative teaching.
They will discuss connecting school and community through service-learning, and how school and business partnerships can support core academic instruction as well as address relevant social and business issues such as emergency preparedness, disaster relief, and public safety.
Nelda Brown, Executive Director of the National Service Learning Partnership; Steve Culbertson, President and CEO of Youth Service America
Project Ignition
Sponsored by State Farm Insurance
Monday, February 20, 2006
2:15-4:05 p.m. Courtland
Teens help save teens lives!
Project Ignition showcases teen driver safety because car crashes are the No. 1 killer of our youth. Many teens involved in Project Ignition have experienced such a tragedy and want to make a difference. Project Ignition is a nationwide service-learning program for high school students sponsored by the State Farm® Marketing Department in partnership with the National Youth Leadership Council.
A teacher and a student representative from the 2004-2005 winning school from Mooresville (IN) High School will tell how “In a Flash” was developed, why they got involved and what they've done to share their important teen driver safety messages. Because lives can change “In a Flash” resulting from unsafe driving, Mooresville chose four areas on which to educate students and the community: Seatbelt Safety, Dangerous Habits, Impaired Driving, Safe Cell Phone Use. They wrote and produced videos to impact viewers. They sponsored a Community Safe Driving Day. Students signed pledges, made “Remember Them” key chains and studied the four areas in their classes. Newspapers and radio stations covered all events. Survey results confirmed their students and community are making safer choices.
Buzz:
A One-Woman Docudrama about Success and the Relentless Pursuit of It.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
9:00-9:50 a.m., Courtland
Based on interviews with students, teachers and school leaders, this new one-woman docudrama tells a tale of hope, hard work and high achievement in some of America’s high-poverty, high-minority high schools. Straight from their mouths and onto the stage. Catch the Buzz.
Brooke Haycock, Artist-in-Residence with The Education Trust, is a 26-year-old playwright and actor with a background in student organizing. Characterized as provocative, edgy and brutally honest, her theatre pieces have been used as a powerful tool among diverse audiences to spark honest dialogue and focus energies around some of the most pressing and emotionally charged issues we face in American education today.
Conference Hotel: Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Following a $22 million renovation campaign, the 1,260-room Hyatt Regency Atlanta is the first contemporary atrium hotel in the world. Conveniently located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, the hotel is one of the nation's premier convention facilities with 180,000 square feet of ballroom, exhibit, meeting, and hospitality space. Peachtree Center and other interest areas are within walking distance of the hotel.
ATE has reserved a block of rooms for the Annual Meeting at the rates of $154 for single and $169 for double. Regency Club privileges are available for an extra $35 each. The room block will be held until January 15, 2006; after that date, rooms may not be available at the hotel.
The Hyatt Regency Atlanta is located at 265 Peachtree Street N.E., Atlanta, GA 30303. For those flying into Atlanta, the best way to get to the hotel is via the MARTA train system which can be boarded at the airport. Fare to Peachtree Center Station is $1.75; from this station, it is a very short walk to Peachtree Center mall and the hotel. To reserve rooms, call (404) 577-1234 and be sure to mention you are attending ATE's Annual Meeting.
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