Unidos Para Texas Schedule
| 7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. | Pre-Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Keynote Speaker |
| 9:45 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. | Session One |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. | Session Two |
| 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch and Lunch Speaker |
| 1:10 – 2:00 p.m. | Session Three |
| 2:10 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Four |
| 3:10 – 3:30 p.m. | Adjournment/Save the Date |
Detailed Schedule:
Unidos Para Texas Conference Sessions
Saturday, January 18, 2020
PRE-REGISTRATION / CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST: 7:00 AM – 8:15 AM
Location: Student Center Room Ballroom
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 8:20-8:30 AM
Location: Student Center Room Ballroom
Presenter: Dr. Gilda Y. Martinez, Chair of Unidos Para Texas Bilingual Education Conference
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 8:30-9:30 AM
Presenter: Dr. Josefina Villamil-Tinajero,
Session: Closing the Achievement Gap for English Learners through Evidence-Based
Instructional Programs and Practices
Location: Student Center Room Ballroom
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BTLPT Workshop: 8:30-11:30 AM
Presenter: Julissa Liendo
Session: Bilingual Target Language Proficiency, TExES BTLPT Workshop
Location: Dr. Billy F. Cowart Hall Room 116
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SESSION ONE: 9:45-10:35
Presenter: Brenda Gonzalez
Session: Instructional Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 118
This presentation will focus on three main goals: content goals, language goals, and general skill goals. The presentation will create an emphasis on how K-12 teachers should keep these goals in mind when developing classroom instructional materials. The three main goals serve the purpose of providing guidance for the teacher to allow his or her students to part-take in their own learning development and create a sense of shared accountability.
Presenter: Dr. Lourdes Viloria, Dr. Marcela Uribe, and Dr. Weam Al-Tameemi
Session: South Texas Rural Schools’ Math and Science Lessons’ Study
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 114
Rural schoolteachers play a critical and important role in motivating secondary students to pursue postsecondary matriculation. Based on the literature review pertaining to the multifaceted demands experienced by secondary school rural school teachers, the PD-STEP into the STEM Field grant proposes to support five rural school districts by providing professional development that utilizes research-based instructional strategies aligned centered on agricultural mathematics, science and technology knowledge and skills.
Presenter: Pamela Wallace and Dr. Puneet Gill
Session: Culturally Relevant Language Strategies for Discrepant Event in Science and Math
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 104
English Language Learners struggle with the content mainly because of the complex terminology in science and math. Texas teachers should be prepared to support these struggling learners by using effective strategies that will suit their needs. There are many strategies that will help the student’s language acquisition while learning science. In the science classroom, manipulatives can easily be integrated to help the students gain a deeper meaning in the concepts taught.
Presenter: Dr. Erica Guerrero
Session: Why Play-Based Learning in Bilingual Classroom? Research Based Study Indicating Significance.
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 225
Play-based learning is a fundamental learning tool in early childhood. Students in early childhood often require assistance from adults to engage in interactive activities that promote English language acquisition and academic skills. The indication that the importance of play-based learning is imperative for EL students in their early years of school. It is vital that learning environments are conducive to social interactions that foster sociolinguistic, academic, and cognitive development.
Presenter: Dr. Ramon Alaniz
Session: Bilingual Education: A Short Story and Ways to Enhance Language and Content Development
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 113
Presenter: Dr. Bernice Sanchez
Session: Authentic Writing for Bilingual Adolescents
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 206
This presentation provides an overview of the history of writing, the importance of writing for various purposes and genres, and writing in both English and Spanish languages. The presentation (secondary level) focuses on providing authentic writing examples in both languages as a means of showing casing how writing is an important vehicle for documenting history, for communicative purposes, and for advancing once own academic knowledge in both languages.
Presenter: Jeanette Fernandez
Session: Flippin' Over TELPAS
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 207
Strengthen student literacy skills with this great application that allows teachers to design and customize learning for students struggling to master a new language.
Presenter: Diana Ortiz
Session: Bring the World Home to Your Students with Google Arts and Culture
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 208
Created by Google Cultural Institute - Explore how this online platform of resources can help bring, stories, artists, images and art collections from around the world into your classroom.
Presenter: Andrea Reyes
Session: EDPUZZLE
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 202
Introduce students to self-paced learning with interactive video lessons. Choose your video, add your own voice to narrate and add questions.
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SESSION TWO: 10:45 – 11:35
Presenter: Dr. Patsy Sosa-Sanchez
Session: Critical components to Building Comprehension and Creating Meaning in Content Literacy
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 217
Presenter: Dr. Raquel Cataldo
Session: Latino Children’s Narratives
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 221
This presentation examines bilingual children’s emergent writing development by documenting a family/school writing initiative using children’s narratives. Data collected included field notes, interviews, observations of children at their writing center, and artifacts (such as adult and child writing) from the school and home contexts. Analyses reveal young children’s strong dispositions for writing when children’s funds of knowledge are included in the writing process. Findings include young children’s ability to write using natural connections between school, and home, and children’s desire to share their writing with an audience. This data reveals the power of children’s narratives to create powerful confidence in writing for even the most reluctant writers.
Presenter: Dr. Roberto Torres
Session: United to Preserve our Language Learners’ L1, Identities, and Worldviews
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 210
This interactive presentation will consist of discussing how throughout the world, and due to many factors such as the pervasiveness of digital technology, languages are constantly changing, and many will disappear. Regrettably, linguists predict that by the end of the 21st Century there will be around 300 living languages of the current seven thousand living languages. We will explore the status of languages in the world, at risk languages, and the use of language in the digital world, including education.
Presenter: Dr. Maria Gonzales
Session: Language Through a Kaleidoscope of Effective Activities in Early Childhood Classrooms
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 220
The influx of immigrants pursuing the American Dream is changing America’s classrooms. Today, America’s classroom is composed of various cultures, language experiences and backgrounds (Cheatham, Kasai, Silva-Jimenez, & Wodrich, 2014). Majority arrive from Spanish-speaking countries (Zalaquett & Lopez, 2006). According to Piaget (1952), children learn to assimilate, i.e., take in new information and accommodate or apply the new learning to prior learning or schemas. The assimilation and accommodation process assist in building and expanding the understanding of new surroundings and increase intelligence by balancing the cognitive and language understanding of prior information and new information during the learning cycle process (Gonzales, 2016).
Presenter: Dr. Lucinda Juarez and Dr. Lisa Santillan
Session: Closing the Gap through Implementation of Bi-Literacy and Cultural Efficiency Development Strategies with Technology
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 222
Technology has the potential of transforming a classroom by providing multiliteracy resources for our students. Present problems for teachers include matching the right resources to students and learning more about the applications on how to teach them to students. Additionally, students need explicit biliteracy language support strategies in developing heritage language and academic languages in LI and L2.
Presenter: Juan Luis Perez
Session: Organize Instruction & Student Learning with Google Keep
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 205
Flip the learning in your classroom using this exciting Google Tool. Google Keep will allow you to store text, lists, images, and audio. Let GKeep organize and store notes, create vocabulary lists, lessons in the cloud to make them accessible from any Apple, Windows or Android device.
Presenter: Jessica Garza
Session: Amplifying Language Acquisition through Google Slides
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 225
Use the Google Slide platform to build lessons and activities for your EL's that incorporate using audio to enhance the learning environment for students in need of individualized learning.
Presenter: Adriana Ramirez
Session: Five Reasons Your English Language Learners Should Be Using Adobe Spark
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 202
Adobe Spark is the integrated web and mobile solution that enables everyone, especially teachers and their students, to easily create and share impactful visual stories.
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LUNCH 11:45-1:00 PM – Student Center Ballroom
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SESSION THREE: 1:10-2:00 PM
Presenter: Dr. Gilberto Soto
Session: Using Music, Songs & Movement to Develop Bilteracy for the EC and/or Elementary School Programs
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 101
The main objective of the proposed lecture is to provide to our early childhood and elementary educators with bilingual ELL/ESL music activities for children ages three to eleven years old, as part of their bilingual education materials available, in order to improve and expand the literature needed in classrooms of predominantly bilingual children. At the end of this presentation, these music activities and/or curriculum materials presented will increase the enactive, iconic and symbolic aspects when creating a lesson plan.
Presenter: Brenda Gonzalez
Session: Instructional Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 220
This presentation will focus on three main goals: content goals, language goals, and general skill goals. The presentation will create an emphasis on how K-12 teachers should keep these goals in mind when developing classroom instructional materials. The three main goals serve the purpose of providing guidance for the teacher to allow his or her students to part-take in their own learning development and create a sense of shared accountability.
Presenter: Dr. Lourdes Viloria, Dr. Marcela Uribe, and Dr. Weam Al-Tameemi
Session: South Texas Rural Schools’ Math and Science Lessons’ Study
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 205
Rural schoolteachers play a critical and important role in motivating secondary students to pursue postsecondary matriculation. Based on the literature review pertaining to the multifaceted demands experienced by secondary school rural school teachers, the PD-STEP into the STEM Field grant proposes to support five rural school districts by providing professional development that utilizes research-based instructional strategies aligned centered on agricultural mathematics, science and technology knowledge and skills.
Presenter: Pamela Wallace and Dr. Puneet Gill
Session: Culturally Relevant Language Strategies for Discrepant Event in Science and Math
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 221
English Language Learners struggle with the content mainly because of the complex terminology in science and math. Texas teachers should be prepared to support these struggling learners by using effective strategies that will suit their needs. There are many strategies that will help the student’s language acquisition while learning science. In the science classroom, manipulatives can easily be integrated to help the students gain a deeper meaning in the concepts taught.
Presenter: Dr. Erica Guerrero
Session: Why Play-Based Learning in Bilingual Classroom? Research Based Study Indicating Significance.
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 118
Play-based learning is a fundamental learning tool in early childhood. Students in early childhood often require assistance from adults to engage in interactive activities that promote English language acquisition and academic skills. The indication that the importance of play-based learning is imperative for EL students in their early years of school. It is vital that learning environments are conducive to social interactions that foster sociolinguistic, academic, and cognitive development.
Presenter: Dr. Ramon Alaniz
Session: Bilingual Education: A Short Story and Ways to Enhance Language and Content Development
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 113
Presenter: Dr. Bernice Sanchez
Session: Authentic Writing for Bilingual Adolescents
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 114
This presentation provides an overview of the history of writing, the importance of writing for various purposes and genres, and writing in both English and Spanish languages. The presentation (secondary level) focuses on providing authentic writing examples in both languages as a means of showing casing how writing is an important vehicle for documenting history, for communicative purposes, and for advancing once own academic knowledge in both languages.
Presenter: Jeanette Fernandez
Session: Flippin' Over TELPAS
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 217
Strengthen student literacy skills with this great application that allows teachers to design and customize learning for students struggling to master a new language.
Presenter: Diana Ortiz
Session: Bring the World Home to Your Students with Google Arts and Culture
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 219
Created by Google Cultural Institute - Explore how this online platform of resources can help bring, stories, artists, images and art collections from around the world into your classroom.
Presenter: Andrea Reyes
Session: EDPUZZLE
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 225
Introduce students to self-paced learning with interactive video lessons. Choose your video, add your own voice to narrate and add questions.
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BTLPT WORKSHOP: 1:00-4:00 PM
Presenter: Julissa Liendo
Session: Bilingual Target Language Proficiency, TExES BTLPT Workshop
Location: Dr. Billy F. Cowart Hall Room 116
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SESSION FOUR: 2:10-3:00 PM
Presenter: Dr. Gilberto Soto
Session: Using Music, Songs & Movement to Develop Bilteracy for the EC and/or Elementary School Programs
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 101
The main objective of the proposed lecture is to provide to our early childhood and elementary educators with bilingual ELL/ESL music activities for children ages three to eleven years old, as part of their bilingual education materials available, in order to improve and expand the literature needed in classrooms of predominantly bilingual children. At the end of this presentation, these music activities and/or curriculum materials presented will increase the enactive, iconic and symbolic aspects when creating a lesson plan.
Presenter: Dr. Patsy Sosa-Sanchez
Session: Critical components to Building Comprehension and Creating Meaning in Content Literacy
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 207
This presentation provides an insight to ELLs critical conversations that happen while reading
expository text in the content classrooms. Using the Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA)
process, ELLs engaged in conversation in which their native language background knowledge
allowed them to comprehend and create relevant meaning in the content classroom.
Presenter: Dr. Raquel Cataldo
Session: Latino Children’s Narratives
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 201
This presentation examines bilingual children’s emergent writing development by documenting a family/school writing initiative using children’s narratives. Data collected included field notes, interviews, observations of children at their writing center, and artifacts (such as adult and child writing) from the school and home contexts. Analyses reveal young children’s strong dispositions for writing when children’s funds of knowledge are included in the writing process. Findings include young children’s ability to write using natural connections between school, and home, and children’s desire to share their writing with an audience. This data reveals the power of children’s narratives to create powerful confidence in writing for even the most reluctant writers.
Presenter: Dr. Roberto Torres
Session: United to Preserve our Language Learners’ L1, Identities, and Worldviews
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 202
This interactive presentation will consist of discussing how throughout the world, and due to many factors such as the pervasiveness of digital technology, languages are constantly changing, and many will disappear. Regrettably, linguists predict that by the end of the 21st Century there will be around 300 living languages of the current seven thousand living languages. We will explore the status of languages in the world, at risk languages, and the use of language in the digital world, including education.
Presenter: Dr. Maria Gonzales
Session: Language Through a Kaleidoscope of Effective Activities in Early Childhood Classrooms
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 222
The influx of immigrants pursuing the American Dream is changing America’s classrooms. Today, America’s classroom is composed of various cultures, language experiences and backgrounds (Cheatham, Kasai, Silva-Jimenez, & Wodrich, 2014). Majority arrive from Spanish-speaking countries (Zalaquett & Lopez, 2006). According to Piaget (1952), children learn to assimilate, i.e., take in new information and accommodate or apply the new learning to prior learning or schemas. The assimilation and accommodation process assist in building and expanding the understanding of new surroundings and increase intelligence by balancing the cognitive and language understanding of prior information and new information during the learning cycle process (Gonzales, 2016).
Presenter: Dr. Lucinda Juarez and Dr. Lisa Santillan
Session: Closing the Gap through Implementation of Bi-Literacy and Cultural Efficiency Development Strategies with Technology
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 224
Technology has the potential of transforming a classroom by providing multiliteracy resources for our students. Present problems for teachers include matching the right resources to students and learning more about the applications on how to teach them to students. Additionally, students need explicit biliteracy language support strategies in developing heritage language and academic languages in LI and L2.
Presenter: Juan Luis Perez
Session: Organize Instruction & Student Learning with Google Keep
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 208
Flip the learning in your classroom using this exciting Google Tool. Google Keep will allow you to store text, lists, images, and audio. Let GKeep organize and store notes, create vocabulary lists, lessons in the cloud to make them accessible from any Apple, Windows or Android device.
Presenter: Jessica Garza
Session: Amplifying Language Acquisition through Google Slides
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 210
Use the Google Slide platform to build lessons and activities for your EL's that incorporate using audio to enhance the learning environment for students in need of individualized learning.
Presenter: Adriana Ramirez
Session: Five Reasons Your English Language Learners Should Be Using Adobe Spark
Location: Bob Bullock Hall Room 206
Adobe Spark is the integrated web and mobile solution that enables everyone, especially teachers and their students, to easily create and share impactful visual stories.
