Saturday, January 16, 2010

8:00am to
8:30am

Registration                                                                          

8:30am to
8:35am

Colorado College Welcome (President Dick Celeste)              

8:35am to
8:40am

ECOC Planning Committee Welcome Scholarship Recipient

8:40am to
8:45am

StoryCorps: Joe Buford and Michelle Miller

8:45 to
9:45

Keynote

Youth and Judge Regina Walter

9:45am to
10:00am

Break

Breakout Session
#1

10:00amto 
11:30 pm

STUDENTS:

      -    Colors-Lisa Miller

PARENTS:

      -    21st Century Demands: Reading at Grade Level-Tina House, Parent Resource Network and Vince Puzick, K-12 Literacy and Language Arts Facilitator.

PROFESSIONALS:

• Teaching Diverse Students Initiative and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, Jennifer Holladay, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Binta Cross, parent coordinator Highline Academy.

Lunch
11:30amto 
12:15pm

Visit Vendors

Lunch Breakout

12:15pmto 
1:00pm

1) Youth and Parents: College Opportunity/College Invest

2) Parents and Professionals: Black/Brown Dialogue Circles

1:00pm to 
1:10pm

Break

Breakout Session
#2

1:10pm to 
2:25pm

STUDENTS:

      -    Pikes Peak Community College Panel / Youth Advisory Board-Eddie Hughes and Sylvia Garcia, Pikes Peak Community College

PARENTS:

      -    Adolescent Brain Development- Kathy Stevens, Executive Director of Gurian Institute

PROFESSIONALS:

• Reprise Legal and Education Issues for Undocumented Children, Kristen Petri, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Network
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and Counseling, Dr. LaVonne Neal, Dean of the School of Education, UCCS.
• SitComm-Assets for Youth, Kaiser Permanente

2:25pm to 
2:35pm

Break

Breakout Session
#3

2:35pm to
3:50pm

STUDENTS AND PARENTS:                   

• SitComm-Assets for Youth, Kaiser Permanente

PROFESSIONALS: 

• Reaching and Inspiring Latino Youth and their Parents, Dr. Kee Warner, Professor of Sociology, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusiveness, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Dr. Edwardo Portillos, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs;  Dr. Sylvia Martinez, Assistant Professor of Leadership, Research and Foundations, College of Education, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
• Gay Students, Unfriendly Schools, Jennifer Holladay, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Binta Cross, parent coordinator Highline Academy.
• Brain Development and Early Education, Kathy Stevens, Executive Director Gurian Institute.      

3:50pm to 
4:30pm

***Welcome Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Committee’s Closing Ceremony.

Keynote Speaker:  Terrance Carroll

Speaker of the House, Colorado State Representative.

$1000 Educating Children of Color Scholarship and College Invest Scholarship to be awarded at closing/opening ceremony.