Program

Concurrent Sessions

The Prepárate 2012 conference will feature more than 45 sessions led by education leaders and professionals from across the country. The variety of sessions will focus on successful strategies, effective educational models, and methods for developing educational policy. Here are some of the sessions to be featured at this year's conference:

• The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree, SO Start with the Trees!
• Aspiration Plus Action Equals ¡Aquí Estoy! Advisory, a Secondary School Structure Designed to Insure the Academic and Social Preparation of Latino Students on Their Path Towards College Success
• AVID ELCR: Putting ELL Middle School Students on the Path to College
• Breakthrough Schools & Inspiration Schools: Raise Expectations and Student Academic Achievement
• Building STEM P-20 Educational Partnerships
• Challenges for Latino Students in Middle School: Research Findings and the HISPA Role Model Program
• College Students and the Recruitment Process
• Crosby Scholars Excelencia Program
• Designing and Implementing an Advanced Placement Course for the Diverse High School Classroom
• Developing Comprehensive Services for Latino Students Using Current Campus Structures
• Educating Latino Parents and Students About College
• Embajadores: Service-Learning con la Comunidad
• Engaging Parents in College Financing Decisions
• Equity and College Readiness - The AVID Approach
• Gear -Up for College: Middle to College Pipeline Program
• Helping Students Get Ready for College: Resources, Access, Equity
• Helping Students Showcase Their Strengths to Colleges
• Improving Latino ELLs Preparedness for College Mathematics Through Challenging and Culturally Relevant Instruction
• Increasing Latino Student Learning Through Teacher Collaboration
• Increasing Student Persistence and Degree Completion: Successful Strategies from a Title V Cooperative Grant Project
• The Kaplan Leadership Program: An Approach to Preparing Community College Students for Successful Transfer and Beyond
• Latino Stories: Cultural Relevance in the Classroom
• Latinos in Action: Empowering Latino Youth Through Culture, Service, and Education
• Maximizing STEM Education Outcomes for Hispanic Students Through Multi-leveled Alliances
• Motivate & Engage Students with Arts Integration and Artful Thinking
• National Need for Scientists: View from National Science Foundation
• Pasos al Futuro: Empowering Latino Parents to Prepare, Find, Apply, and Pay for College
• Preparing the Future Latino Dentist and Physician: The Role of the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP)
• The Private Side of Public Education: P-20 Engagement with the Private Sector
• Project GRADUATE: Developing Early Warning Systems, Practices and Analyses to Keep Latinos in Middle and High School
• Reconciling Federal, State, and Institutional Policies Determining Educational Access for Immigrant and Undocumented Students: Implications for Professional Practice
• (Re)presenting College Tours: Exploring Latina/o Youth's Multimodal Digital Projects
• Service Learning for ESL Students
• The SAT: Beyond Admissions
• The Simpsons, Don Quixote, Frida Khalo, Mohandas Gandhi, Bob Marley: What Do They Have in Common? An Academic Journey towards Cultural Literacy Bridging Disciplines: Using Pop Culture, Literature and History
• Uneven Access & Opportunity: An Examination of College-Going Practices Among Latino Running Start Students in Washington
• Uniting for the Undocumented – A Coalition Seeking Answers to Better Serve Students
• Whose Responsibility is it Anyway? Helping More Students Transfer from a Community College to a Four-Year Institution

 The above list is tentative based upon confirmations, and titles may change due to the editorial process.

Schedule 

The following is a tentative schedule for Preparate 2012: