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Cal State University San Marcos is set to present “The Face of the American Educator: Addressing the Latino Male Shortage” from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Mar. 9 at Mt. San Jacinto College, Menifee campus.
The symposium stems from a College Board of Advocacy & Policy Center issued study called “The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color,” in Jan. 2010.
As shown in their research, Latino men have low high school graduation rates and low college enrollment due to the lack of successful Latino role models in the education system.
California State University San Marcos and Encuentros Leadership have partnered to present an Educational Leadership Symposium designed to address this issue.
This symposium aims to connect local educational leaders, students, and community leaders, clarify the issues and identify strategies to increase the number of Latino males who choose to become educator.
The agenda includes breakfast, keynote speaker Dr. Al Mijares, Orange County Superintendent of Education and roundtable workshops with prominent educational community leaders.
Mt. San Jacinto College, Menifee Campus is located at 28237 La Piedra Road in Menifee.
For more information about the upcoming Education Leadership Symposium, please contact 760-750-8729 or visit www.csusm.edu/el/teachereducation/els.html.
*Contributed by California State University San Marcos
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I strongly disagree, that men of color are not teaching in the schools. It ls lack of role model in the home. I believe, we need to educate the parents the importance of education. You, can put all the role models you want in the schools, but if the children are living in a education friendly home, it won’t do any good. As a former tutor in this area, I saw everything from not a pencil in the home, to a mother interfering during the lesson. That particular child gleefully told me she got to repeat the 1st grade.
What also is needed is a change in neighborhoods letting them know, education is not a cop out and bowing down to “whitie”
Maddy, I agree with some of what you say. Modeling and education begins at home. But our children of color (Latinos and Black) need to see themselves in who is teaching them so that they can see that they too can reach greater heights.
Yes, we need to re-educate parents.
Yes, we need to show parents and families that education is opportunity, not just opportunity for the non-color faction.
Yes, we need to get parents involved so that they know that their part as the first teacher is critical…
But we must also take the village approach and let children see their potential reflected in those professionals that look like them around them..
Hope you will all attend this event. I will definitely attend. I agree with you, Raine. You have to see people who look like you in order to imagine you can play the same roles they play.
I often hear the “blaming the family/student/community” argument as a way to evade responsibility we have as educators. Our responsibility is to create environments where everyone has a fair opportunity for success. Yes it takes a village, but a certain few have been granted the knowledge, power, and resources to lead the village into a new future-teachers and educators.
I have numerous years training and recruiting tutors. Knowing your clientele, environment, and potential barriers to learning are fundamental strategies to being an effective tutor and educator. When a tutor is “surprised” or “put off” by a lack of resources, student’s motivation, or learning obstacles, it only tells me that the tutor has not done his or her due diligence in really learning about his/her student. That is a tutor problem first and foremost.
By the way, I grew up in a home with no pencils, and I will be receiving my doctorate in education this year…so much for not growing up in an education friendly home.