13th Annual
New England Conference on
Multicultural Education (NECME)

Wednesday,  October 8, 2008

Connecticut Convention Center - Hartford, Connecticut

 

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Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Carlos E. Cortés
"Multicultural Education:
Building a More Inclusive
American Future"

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Featured Speakers
 
Donna Gollnick
Vice President
NCATE
Past-President of the National Association for Multicultural Education
(NAME)
 
Lee Mun Wah
Producer of "The Color of Fear"
StirFry Seminars & Consulting
Nancy Schniedewind
"Open Minds to Equality:
A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity"
(with Ellen Davidson)
 

 

 


 
Photos from Past Conferences

 

 



Cultural Performances
by
Stephanie Sum & Asian Performing Arts


About
Carlos E. Cortés

      Dr. Carlos E. Cortés is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside.  Since 1990 he has served on the summer faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, since 1995 has served on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, and since 1999 has been an adjunct faculty member of the Federal Executive Institute. 

     Two of his most recent books, The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity and The Making -- and Remaking -- of a Multiculturalist, were published by Teachers College Press, while he is co-author of the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies series and senior consultant for the McDougal Littell World History series.  Cortés serves as Creative/Cultural Advisor for Nickelodeon's Peabody-award-winning children's television series, "Dora the Explorer," and its sequel, "Go, Diego, Go!," and he also performs his one-person, autobiographical play, A Conversation with Alana: One Boy's Multicultural Rite of Passage.  His recent honors include the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award, the California Association for Bilingual Education's Inspiration Award, and the University of California, Riverside's Emeritus Professor of the Year Award. 

     The recipient of two book awards, Cortés' publications include Three Perspectives on Ethnicity, Gaúcho Politics in Brazil, and Beyond Language: Social and Cultural Factors in Schooling Language Minority Students, while he has edited three major book series, totaling 106 volumes, on Latinos in the United States.  He also received his university's Distinguished Teaching Award and Faculty Public Service Award, the Distinguished California Humanist Award, the American Society for Training and Development's National Multicultural Trainer of the Year Award, and the California Council for the Social Studies' Hilda Taba Award, and was selected by the Smithsonian Institution to be a Public Lecturer.

     A consultant to many government agencies, school systems, universities, mass media, private businesses, and other organizations, Cortés has lectured widely throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia on the implications of diversity for education, government, and private business.  He has also written film and television documentaries, appeared as guest host on the PBS national television series, "Why in the World?," and is the featured presenter on the Video Journal of Education's training video, "Diversity in the Classroom." 

 

* Special Performance *

A CONVERSATION WITH ALANA:

 ONE BOY'S MULTICULTURAL RITE OF PASSAGE

written and performed by
Carlos E. Cortés

Director -- Bethany Kraemer
 Theatrical Consultant -- Dawn Davies

"A Conversation with Alana" is a new one-hour, one-person autobiographical play written and performed by Carlos E. Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside.  In his play, Cortés presents his story of growing up as a young man of mixed ancestry in racially segregated, religiously divided early post-World War II Kansas City, Missouri.  The son of a Mexican Catholic immigrant father and an American-born Jewish mother, whose parents came from Austria and Ukraine, Cortés had to learn to navigate Kansas City's rigid racial, ethnic, and religious fault lines, while simultaneously dealing with the internal conflicts of his own divided family. 
 


 

 


The first 500 conference  participants to arrive will receive a free copy of "The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity."


Dr. Cortés will be doing a Book Signing.

 



Please direct all program content inquiries about the conference to
Dr. William A. Howe, Connecticut State Department of Education,
e-mail: william.howe@ct.gov

 

Important Message:

"There was a last minute change to the conference date and we realized too late that Yom Kippur begins at sundown on Oct. 8, 2008. We recognize how important this day is on the Jewish calendar. The timing is extremely regrettable. We offer our apologies for any difficulties. Please consider attending and staying for as late as you can. We modified the agenda so that the second session ends at 3 pm."

 

 

SPONSORS

Connecticut State Department of Education

New England Equity Assistance Center, Brown University

University of Connecticut, NEAG School of Education
CT Chapter - National Association for Multicultural Education
Central Connecticut State University

Eastern Connecticut State University

Southern Connecticut State University

Connecticut Education Association (CEA)

Goodwin College
Quinnipiac University

 




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