Celebrate opportunities: Achievement conference in San Jose April 25-27

CSBA is hosting this year’s Celebrating Educational Opportunities for Hispanic Students, the annual conference that brings educators and governance teams from throughout the Southwest together to explore ways to promote academic achievement.

The event, which occurs in California once every four years, will be April 25-27 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Nearly 400 school board members and other local education leaders attended last year’s conference in Albuquerque, N.M.

CSBA President Paul H. Chatman, his counterparts from Arizona, Texas and New Mexico, and National School Boards Association President Norm Wooten will appear, along with keynote speakers and an array of educators and governance team members who will present their model programs.

Three general session speakers will lend their expertise to the conference:

• Sonia Nazario won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her Los Angeles Times series, “Enrique’s Journey,” about the experiences of a Honduran boy who braved hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States after an 11-year separation.

• Rose Castillo Guilbault, now vice president of corporate affairs at AAA of Northern California, Nevada and Utah, will share stories from her memoir, “Farmworker’s Daughter” Growing Up Mexican in America.”

• Glenn Singleton, founder of the Pacific Education Group, will address participants on ways to better serve the needs of students of color.

Model programs that are producing solid results in academic performance will be discussed in breakout sessions that allow participants to learn what works, share experiences and trade ideas about community and parent involvement, language and achievement, technology, and data-driven analysis and accountability.

Conference registration costs $325 until April 18, when it rises to $335.

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Register for CSBA events by clicking on “Events Calendar” at www.csba.org; for more information, call 800-266-3382, ext. 3275.