California Teachers Association Institute for Teaching

1. California Teachers Association Institute for Teaching YOU ARE INVITED! Closing the Achievement Gap by Understanding the Culture of Success When:May 16-17, 2008 Where: CTA Region 2, 4100 Truxel Rd., Sacramento, CA ***NOTE*** Change in location! • Teachers Leading Public School Change • Attend the May 16-17 Workshop • Gain information on what you can do to promote progressive teacher driven change to close the achievement gap for minority students. • Gain information on how chapters can coordinate activities among teachers, students, parents and community members around those factors that encourage a culture of success for all students. • The CTA IFT is hosting a major workshop focusing on cutting edge thinking to close the achievement gap for minority students. Unlike other state and national reform efforts that emphasize more control, more regulations, and more restrictions, the IFT is bringing together leading national and international speakers to engage and hold conversations with CTA members, leaders, and staff on key factors driving a culture of success for all students. • (See reverse side for a partial list of speakers). • Workshop Schedule • May 16th - 9:00 am to 5:15 pm - Workshop • May 16th - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm - Reception • May 17th - 9:00 am to 4:15 pm - Workshop • Topic Areas • Cultural Change • African American Achievement • Latin American Achievement • Asian Pacific Islander Achievement • Native American Achievement • This workshop is funded in part by the CTA IFT, Tufts University, John Templeton Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • High School Culture of Success • Last spring the HSOP interviewed over 800 African American and Latino students and their parents to reveal factors driving a culture of success. Below are the results: • Focusing on the Future • Strengthening the Work Ethic • Expanding Family-School Relations • Strengthening the Social Ethic • Valuing Child Rearing Practices • Encouraging System-Wide Thinking • Moving to a Learning-Centered Environment For early registration, contact Kelly Henderson, CTA Institute for Teaching by March 8, 2008. Phone (916) 288-4931. About the CTA Institute for Teaching The CTA Institute for Teaching mission is to enhance, support, and sustain high quality teaching and high quality public schools for all California students.  Through mobilizing teachers, special programs, research, conferences, networking, and community-based coalitions, the CTA Institute for Teaching seeks to advance public education and promote the common good of our students and communities.

2. Partial List of Workshop Speakers  Lawrence Harrison directs the Cultural Change Institute at Tufts University's Fletcher School. He is the author or co-editor of seven books on the role of cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes in human progress, most recently The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself. Richard Lamm isCo-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies of the University of Denver. He was Governor of Colorado from 1975 to 1987 and also served in the Colorado legislature. Jerome Kagan is the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where his work has focused on child development. He is co-editor, with Lawrence Harrison, of Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change. Marlene Koss is a Costa Rican clinical psychologist whose work has focused on children and adolescents. She is an associate of Luis Diego Herrera, who contributed the chapter on Costa Rican child-rearing practices to Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change. Ronald Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, is an economist and Senior Research Associate at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and has taught at Harvard since 1983. Much of his research since the mid-1990s has focused on racial achievement gaps, appearing in publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings Institution, and the U.S. Department of Education, Sharon Lynn Kagan is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Professor Adjunct at Yale University's Child Study Center. She is past President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Her most recent book is Children, Families, and Government: Preparing for the Twenty--First Century. Jane Kim-Hall is a Sr. Immigration Specialist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law.  She is the co-author, with Dr. Soo Kim Abboud, of Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers - and How You Can Too.  She has spoken with schools, nonprofits and governmental organizations regarding the principles set forth in Top of the Class.  Top of the Class has been featured in TheNew York Times and on Good Morning America, and has been translated into Korean and Chinese.   Fernando Reimers is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard, specializing on Latin America with an emphasis on the contribution of education to political and social development. He is the author, most recently, of Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances: The Challenges to Equal Opportunity in the Americas. Richard Niemi is Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, where he has also served as Department Chair, Associate Dean, and Interim Dean. Among his fields of concentration are political socialization and civic education. He is recently the co-author, with Jane Junn, of Civic Education--What Makes Students Learn. Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and Professor of Education at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he directs the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (Respect and Responsibility). A past President of the Association for Moral Education, he is the author, most recently, of Character Development in Schools and Beyond. Joseph Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University. He also heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Kalt has published widely in the area of natural resources economics and policy. He is the author of What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development (with Steven Cornell); and The State of the Native Nation. Reese Schonfeld was the first president of the Cable News Network. He also founded the Television Food Network. He is the author of Me and Ted Against the World; The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN as well as a chapter on the role of entertainment media in cultural change in Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change. Miguel Basáñez is president of the Global Quality Research Corporation and was executive vice president of MORI International from 1993 to 2000. He is the co-author, with Ronald Inglehart, of Human Values and Beliefs most recently, and he is the founding publisher of the Mexican monthly magazine Este País, specializing in public opinion polls.