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To see the virtual Padlets and Poster presentations

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PASA Presenters and Topics

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Please read about your 2017 PASA presenters!

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                             AELS History

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                             AELS History

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The Educational Leadership Symposium is an important PASA initiative that emerged from the Research Fellows program within PASA and is now a part of the Annual Education Congress.  It provides a platform for policy makers in government, the donor community and educational institutions to interface with educational leadership research fellows, professionals, administrators and researchers at all levels to share vital knowledge and information on appropriate ways and strategies for delivering improved strategies in our schools.

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This Week's Update (4-23-18) - Senate Education Committee poised to consider and approve voucher bill [Update: Action on SB 2 deferred to May]; PDE offers guidance on charter school tuition calculationsPASA Supports SB 1095: Alternative Pathways to Graduation. to read the press release (4/3/18).School Safety Resources: .NEW! PASA Acting Superintendent Search Service.

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                     2017 PASA Educational Congress

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                     2017 PASA Educational Congress

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FOCUS: Delving Deeper into the EVERY Student Succeeds Act
WHEN: Wednesday and Thursday, March 29-30, 2017
WHERE: Radisson Hotel Harrisburg - Camp Hill, PA  (See map and contact information above)
WHO: Offered in partnership with the PA Department of Education
BENEFITS: Approved for 40 PIL/Act 48 (Act 45) hours*
TOPICS:

How will the new Presidential administration impact education?

How will PA's State Plan for the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) impact YOUR school district?

PRESENTERS AND AGENDA: See below

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Breakout Session 1:  9:15 - 10:30 a.m.

Moderator: Dr. Robert Gildea, Superintendent - Hollidaysburg Area SD

Opening Speaker: Dr. Sybil Knight-Burney, Superintendent - Harrisburg SD

Research Presentations, Research Fellows Panel

Breakout Session 2: 10:45 a.m. - noon

Moderator: Dr. David Baugh, Superintendent - Centennial SD

Opening Speaker: Dr. Beth Haldeman, Principal in the Cocalico SD and President of the PA Principals' Association

Research Panel Presentations, Poster Presentations

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                             Past Presenters

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                             Past Presenters

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PASA 2016 Research Presenters E-Gallery:
https://padlet.com/onlinelink/PASAApril2016

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Short documentary about a Brooklyn high school and their dedication to immigrant students

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Building on youth-led storytelling workshops in schools, students are using I LEARN AMERICA ( the film and its Human Library) to spark creative "home-grown" community conversations around migration, identity and education.

I Learn America is a participatory education project with a mission to use the power of storytelling to foster empathy, urgency, and action around issues affecting migrant youth, as they forge their own path in a new land.

TODAY IN AMERICA...

Nearly one in four children is an immigrant or the children of immigrants.

Our classrooms are meeting a growing influx of students who speak little to no English, who are unfamiliar with American culture, and, in some cases, who lack formal education.

The children of immigration are here to stay. How we fare in welcoming them will define who we are for years to come.

SCHOOLS - the first and ultimate hope for integration - are generally ill-equipped to serve immigrant teenagers. The traditional paradigm relegates them to the sidelines. Yet, it is in school that the children of immigration determine where they belong in the reality and imagination of their new culture.
WHO ARE OUR NEW AMERICANS?

After ten years apart, Brandon made the perilous journey from Guatemala to America to reunite with his mother. Crossing the desert by himself was easy compared to getting to know his mom again.

"When I came to America, my first goal was to see my mother. But after ten years it's totally different. For ten years she didn't know me. It was kind of like putting two persons in a room, kind of to meet each other."

Sing is a refugee from Myanmar who recently relocated to Brooklyn, leaving his family behind. He feels isolated and angry and barely speaks English.

"What I want to say, I have in my brain, but ... I can't speak in English. It makes me sometimes confused."

ITRAT came to America from Pakistan to join a father she hardly knew after the passing of her mother. What kind of future is waiting for her in America?

"I am part of Pakistan because I was born there and I was raised in the beginning part of my life. But at the same time I was only eleven days and my dad came here. And I started hearing, 'America ... America ... America'. And, 'This country has everything'. Now I'm divided. In two parts."

SANDRA is a tomboy from Poland, undocumented and a class leader. She and Dominican-born JENNIFFER, her sassy classmate, are inseparable - "like a flower with water."

"Being different is like a part time job. You are half yourself and half the time you try to be someone better for the people to show how you want to be. I want to be myself. I want to open the eyes and hearts to really show I am still the same person inside with the same feelings, same identity and the same human rights as anybody else in this world." -Sandra

At the International High School at Lafayette, a Brooklyn public school dedicated to newly arrived immigrants from all over the world, five teenagers strive to master English, adapt to families they haven't seen in years, and create a future of their own while coming of age in a new land.

Through these five vibrant young people, their stories and struggles, and their willingness to open their lives and share them with us, we "learn America."

"We need to serve these students. Regardless of how you may feel about the immigration issue, they are children, and they did not choose to come here. But they are here. So the options are to serve them, nurture them, and educate them, or not. Then what?"
-Principal Michael Soet

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Your browser is not supported. Update your browserhere Building on youth-led storytelling workshops in schools, students are using I LEARN AMERICA ( the film and its Human Library) to spark creative "home-grown" community conversations around migration, identity and education.

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Symposium Welcome from Dr. Joyce Pittman

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Symposium Welcome from Dr. Joyce Pittman

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Annual Educational Leadership Research Symposium (AELS) began in 2015

Presented as poster or virtual sessions, keynote and featured speakers

Professionals, administrators, policy makers, PASA Research Fellows, and doctoral students present relevant research in their respective fields

Serves as a component of the PASA Educational Congress (see below for EC information)

This year's themes are educational equity and implications for leadership

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The objectives of the symposium breakout sessions are to:

Strengthen capacity within PASA, educational leaders, teachers, students, researchers and other stakeholders in collecting and analyzing information  to achieve the vision of “education for all beyond walls.”

Generate and/or support frameworks for the development and implementation of new initiatives that address specific learning, equity and migration in education (and leadership) problems.

Consider how learning, equity and migration issues in education can be harnessed effectively for opening up social and economic futures for all across Pennsylvania, the nation and the world at large.

Explore a range of approaches that promote learning, equity and migration education strategies in-school and out-of-school

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From PASA Research and Development Committee

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From PASA Research and Development Committee

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Welcome to the “Research Symposium:  Presentations and Networking with Doctoral students and PASA Research Fellows” – Joyce Pittman, Ph.D., Chair of Committee

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WHEN: Thursday, March 30, 2017

WHERE: Radisson Hotel Harrisburg
1150 Camp Hill Bypass
Camp Hill, PA 17011 (See map below)

CONTACT THEM: (717) 763-7117 or https://www.radisson.com/camp-hill-hotel-pa-17011-3734/pacamphi

WHO: Co-hosted by PASA and Drexel University’s School of Education, Educational Leadership and Management program and held in conjunction with the 2017 PASA Education Congress

WHY: The purpose of the AELS is to develop ways of translating “Education for All” into “Leading Beyond Walls in Global Age: Equity, Learning, Migration.”

RESOURCE:  Padlet User Tutorial by Dr. Kristen Betts:
https://padlet.com/onlinelink/pasaposters2015