Grow Your Own Summit 2006
Club Quarters Hotel
111 West Adams
Chicago, Illinois

Thursday, May 11- Friday, May 12, 2006

AGENDA

Thursday, May 11, 2006 
         
10:30 am                      Opening  Plenary                 Adams Room, 3rd Floor

Welcoming remarks:  Madeline Talbott, Head Organizer, Illinois ACORN         
Elliot Regenstein, Director of Education Reform, Office of the Governor
Edward Geppert, Member, Illinois State Board of Education

Recognition:  Grow Your Own Planning Grant Recipients                            
The Honorable Iris Martinez, Senator
The Honorable Mattie Hunter, Senator
The Honorable Esther Golar, Representative

Plenary speaker:  Dr. Charles M. Payne, Professor of African and African American Studies and History, Duke University 

12 noon                        Lunch       
                       
1:00 – 2:00 pm             Panel:  Learning from Grow Your Own students

Moderator:            Amanda Rivera, Director, Learning and Development, Chicago Public Schools
Nueva Generacion and Grow Your Own Students: Ebelia Mucino, Nueva Generacion, Logan Square Neighborhood Association; Ofelia Sanchez, GYO, Logan Square;
Steve Perkins, Maryann Peterson, GYO, TARGET Area Development Corporation;

 

 

2:15 – 3:45 pm            Grow Your Own: Best Practices

1.  Strengthening the Consortia                Adams Room, 3rd Floor  
Facilitator:  Nancy Aardema, Executive Director, Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Resource people:  Maureen Gillette, Dean, College of Education, Northeastern Illinois University; Elliott Lessen, Dean, School of Education, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Angela Mojekwu, North Lawndale Project Director, Illinois ACORN

• Community roles in GYO
• Building relationships and bridging divides among consortium partners

2.  Building a Cohort                  Westminster Room, Lower Level
Facilitator:  Jeff Bartow, Executive Director, Southwest Organizing Project
Resource people:  Elizabeth Skinner, Coordinator, Nueva Generacion, Chicago State University, Bridget Murphy, Cohort Coordinator, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Ebelia Mucina and Leticia Barrera, Nueva Generacion students

• Outreach strategies for potential teacher candidates
• Paraprofessionals
• Parents and community members
• Why and how to develop cohort relationships
• The roles of the coordinator(s)

3.  Nuts and Bolts                                      Buckingham Room, Lower Level
Facilitator:  Patricia Watkins, Executive Director, TARGET Area Development Corporation
Resource people:  Maria Teresa Garreton, Bilingual Education Program Coordinator, Chicago State University; Linda Tomlinson, Director, Teacher Education Program, Western Illinois University; Nancy Slavin, Director, Recruitment and Workforce Planning, Chicago Public Schools 

• Developing an implementation plan
• Budget, staffing
• Making maximum use of your money
• Roles of partners

4. Grow Your Own Teacher Preparation Curriculum  Clark Room, 3rd Floor
Facilitator:  Madeline Talbott, Head Organizer, Illinois ACORN
Resource people:  George Torres, Director, Transition to Teaching, Illinois State University; Joanna Brown, Education Organizer, Logan Square Neighborhood Association; Eloise Metcalfe, Director, Teacher Education Program, UCLA; Amanda Rivera, Director, Learning and Development, Chicago Public Schools; Elizabeth Hawthorne, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Richard Daley College

• Community college/4 year articulation
• Community roles in a rigorous curriculum
• Curriculum that prepares teachers as leaders

3:45 – 4:00 pm            Break

4:00 – 4:30 pm   Creating a Statewide Learning Network  Adams Room, 3rd Fl.
Facilitators at each table:  Monica Garreton, Steve Andrews and others

• Topics and opportunities
• Structure
• Use of electronic web site

4:30  – 5:30 pm            Illinois State Board of Education:   A discussion
Linda Jamali, Interim Division Administrator, Teacher Certification; Lynn Rhoades, Principal Consultant; Jonathan Furr, General Counsel

• GYO budget:  technical assistance and supports
• Important elements of the program
• Data collection and evaluation strategies 
• Forgivable loans and student aid

5:30 – 6:30 pm            Reception           Adams Room, 3rd Floor

Dinner              On your own

Friday, May 12, 2006

8 am                 Breakfast                               Adams Room, 3rd Floor                                 
9 am                 Opening Plenary                          Adams Room, 3rd Floor
Dr. Eloise Lopez Metcalfe, Director, Teacher Education Program
University of California Los Angeles
 
10:00- 10:15             Break

10:15– 11:45 am        GYO:  An Engine for Change 

1. Teachers as community leaders                     Clark Room, 3rd Floor
Facilitator:  Jeff Bartow, Executive Director, Southwest Organizing Project
Resource people:  Amanda Rivera, Director, Learning and Development, CPS;  Lance Williams, Assistant Director and Instructor, Carruthers Centers for Inner City Studies, Northeastern Illinois University; Lanita Koster, Educational Issues Director, Illinois Federation of Teachers

• Teachers as active part of community organizations
• Strategies:  home visits, organizing training, action research

 

 

2.  Enhancing community culture in schools   Westminster, Lower Level   
Facilitator:  Jay Travis, Executive Director, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
Resource people:  Monica Garreton, Education Organizer, Logan Square Neighborhood Association; Stephanie Garza, Education Organizer, Southwest Organizing Project;  Shannon Bennett, Education Organizer, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization; Education Organizer, ACORN.

• Literacy Ambassadors
• Parents in Schools, Parent Mentors programs
• Umoja
• Summer Institute

3.  Colleges of Education as a locus of change            Buckingham, Lower Level
Facilitator: Madeline Talbott, Head Organizer, Illinois ACORN  
Resource people:  Deans, College of Education:  Maureen Gillette, Northeastern Illinois University; Deborah Curtis, Illinois State University; Christine Sorensen, Northern Illinois University; Elliott Lessen, Southern Illinois University; Steven Russell, Governors State University

• Colleges of Education leaders working with community partnerships
• How can GYO influence teacher preparation curriculum
• Tapping community assets in preparing teachers

4.  Evaluating GYO:  What counts, what are you counting?  Adams Room, 3rd Floor
Facilitator: Diana Nelson, Executive Director, Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform                         
Resource people:  Diana Lauber, Managing Director, Cross City Campaign; Eloise Lopez Metcalfe, Director, Teacher Education Program, UCLA;  Joanna Brown, Education Organizer, Logan Square; Linda Jamali, Interim Division Administrator, Teacher Certification, ISBE; Anne Hallett, Director, Grow Your Own Illinois; Maria Teresa Garreton, Bilingual Education Program Coordinator, Chicago State.

• What should a GYO evaluation design include?
• What are the goals of an evaluation?
• How can evaluation be used to support GYO program development and improvement?

           
12:00 – 1:30 pm            Lunch:  Consortia members eat together to plan next steps
           
1:30 pm                        Closing remarks
Patricia Watkins, Executive Director
                                    Target Area Development Corporation

1:45 pm                        Adjourn