LEAD Summit Program

Latino Education & Advocacy Days Summit V

“Latino Male Crisis in the Educational Pipeline”

Thursday, March 27, 2014
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program At-A-Glance

8:30 AM: Check-In

9:00 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:50 AM: Advocacy Address: “The Battle for Mexican American Studies (MAS) and the National Movement for Protecting Public Education”

10:25 AM: Break

10:40 AM: PANEL: “Latin@ Students and the School-to-Prison-Pipeline”

11:20 AM: Panel: “Diversifying STEM Education: Challenges and Best Practices”

12:00 PM: Lunch

1:20 PM: Announcements

1:25 PM: Featured Address – “La Cultura Cura, Cultural – Based Healing for Boys and Men of Color”

2:00 PM: Panel – “Is the Peace Corps a good fit for Latinos?”

2:40 PM: Panel – “Technology and the Importance of informal learning contexts for Latin@ students’ learning and development”

3:20 PM: Break / “Otro Cafecito” & Live Performance

3:35 PM: Announcements

3:40 PM: Panel – “Common Core: Practice, Theory and implementation”

4:20 PM: Keynote Address – “Chicano Rights Movements: Then and Now”

5:00 PM: Concluding Remarks & Acknowledgements