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Future Educators of New Mexico: A Reality In This Issue. . . Future Educators of New Mexico: A partnership with CES Page 1 BoCES and Parent Engagement Page 2 The Bridge Teacher Recognition Program Page 2 SNMERC Administrator’s Conference Page 2 New Mexico MESA DAY Page3 YWIC Summer Camps Page4 STEM Outreach Page 5 MC 2 : Mathematically Connected Communities Page 6 Ink Spilling- Borderlands Writing Project and Pi of the Century Day Page 7 ENLACE Youth Research Conference Page 8 Alliance Contacts Page 9 During the fall of 2014, after visiting with The Alliance partner districts, the issue of teacher recruitment and retention was brought to the forefront. As a result, Dean Morehead and Karen Trujillo started working on a plan to establish a statewide network for the Future Educators of New Mexico. Dr. Trujillo met with teachers who had current programs in Espanola, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, El Paso and Gadsden. She also reached out to Dan Brown from the National Future Educators of America office and attended the Arizona FEA State Conference to collect valuable information. In February, the Cooperative Education Services (CES) Board approved a $20,000 budget to host a summer planning conference for teachers in New Mexico interested in starting programs at their high schools. The plan is to have at least 30 teachers come together from June 24 to June 26 to plan what the FENM Organization will look like by developing a 5 year plan for their schools and for the statewide organization. CES has partnered with The Alliance on many initiatives and we are excited about this partnership. Teachers who attend will go home with a plan and a commitment to start a class or an organization where their students will learn about what it is like to be a teacher and have the opportunity to work with children in real classroom settings. There is also an effort at NMSU to make online courses and dual credit courses available to these FENM students so they can enter college with a head start in their education courses. Dan Brown, form Future Educators of America will be present and he will provide information about the national efforts to prepare future teachers. They are developing a new website with free resources for students and teachers. Teachers will be able to access content for their classes including actual video-taped lessons from Nationally Board Certified teachers. Students will be able to earn badges as they complete teaching related tasks like lesson planning. It is very exciting. The plan also includes a student conference in the spring of 2016 where Future Educators of New Mexico can gather to discuss their accomplishments, elect fellow students to the state office and compete to qualify for national competitions at the National Educators Rising Conference of 2016. By supporting this effort, The Alliance will position NMSU in a role to support the “Grow Your Own” teachers initiative in all partner districts and throughout New Mexico. If you are interested, or you know a school that is interested in starting a FENM Chapter and would like to attend the June conference, please contact Karen Trujillo at [email protected] as soon as possible. EDUCATORS RISING is the new name for Future Educators of America. The new branding will be announced at the national conference and will fully launch in August of 2015. Collaboration • Partnership • Networking • Outreach SPRING 2015 1 Collaboration • Partnership • Networking • Outreach • Research
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Future Educators of New Mexico: A RealityIn This Issue. . .
Future Educators of New Mexico: A partnership with CES
Page 1
BoCES and Parent Engagement Page 2
The Bridge Teacher Recognition Program Page 2
SNMERC Administrator’s Conference Page 2
New Mexico MESA DAY Page 3
YWIC Summer Camps Page 4
STEM Outreach Page 5
MC2: Mathematically
Connected Communities Page 6
Ink Spilling-Borderlands Writing Project and Pi of the Century Day Page 7
ENLACE Youth Research Conference Page 8
Alliance Contacts Page 9
During the fall of 2014, after visiting with The
Alliance partner districts, the issue of teacher
recruitment and retention was brought to the
forefront. As a result, Dean Morehead and
Karen Trujillo started working on a plan to
establish a statewide network for the Future
Educators of New Mexico. Dr. Trujillo met
with teachers who had current programs in
Espanola, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, El Paso
and Gadsden. She also reached out to Dan
Brown from the National Future Educators of
America office and attended the Arizona FEA
State Conference to collect valuable
information.
In February, the Cooperative Education
Services (CES) Board approved a $20,000
budget to host a summer planning conference
for teachers in New Mexico interested in
starting programs at their high schools. The
plan is to have at least 30 teachers come
together from June 24 to June 26 to plan what
the FENM Organization will look like by
developing a 5 year plan for their schools and
for the statewide organization. CES has
partnered with The Alliance on many initiatives
and we are excited about this partnership.
Teachers who attend will go home with a plan
and a commitment to start a class or an
organization where their students will learn
about what it is like to be a teacher and have the
opportunity to work with children in real
classroom settings.
There is also an effort at NMSU to make online
courses and dual credit courses available to
these FENM students so they can enter college
with a head start in their education courses.
Dan Brown, form Future Educators of America will
be present and he will provide information about the
national efforts to prepare future teachers. They are
developing a new website with free resources for
students and teachers. Teachers will be able to
access content for their classes including actual
video-taped lessons from Nationally Board Certified
teachers. Students will be able to earn badges as
they complete teaching related tasks like lesson
planning. It is very exciting.
The plan also includes a student conference in the
spring of 2016 where Future Educators of New
Mexico can gather to discuss their accomplishments,
elect fellow students to the state office and compete
to qualify for national competitions at the National
Educators Rising Conference of 2016.
By supporting this effort, The Alliance will position
NMSU in a role to support the “Grow Your Own”
teachers initiative in all partner districts and
throughout New Mexico.
If you are interested, or you know a school that is
interested in starting a FENM Chapter and would like
to attend the June conference, please contact Karen
Trujillo at [email protected] as soon as possible.
EDUCATORS RISING
is the new name for Future Educators of America. The new branding will be
announced at the national conference and will fully launch in August of 2015.
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SPRING 2015
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BoCES Supports Efforts to Increase Parent Engagement
The Borderlands Center for Educational Studies (BoCES) took the lead in facilitating the afternoon session at
the 2nd
Annual Ensuring Capacity Mini-Conference hosted by Cooperative Educational Services on January 28,
2015 at the Las Cruces Convention Center. School administrators, teachers, program directors and coordinators
as well as parents were in attendance. Drs. Judith Flores Carmona, Juan Freire, and Michelle Valverde explored
the concept of deficit thinking and how it can be a major barrier when attempting to engage parents in the
education arena. The participants also discussed ways to interrupt deficit thinking by utilizing tools and models
that help us value and build on the strengths that all children and families possess. For more information about
these tools and models or to discuss bringing the BoCES team to your district, please feel free to contact
Michelle Valverde at [email protected] or 575-646-1358.
The Bridge of Southern New Mexico sponsored a teacher recognition program in Doña Ana County for the Hatch, Las Cruces and Gadsden School Districts. Nine teachers will be selected as Brigde Fellows, and two teachers will receive a $1000 cash prize and a 3-Day cruise courtesy of Adventure Travel and other business partners of The Bridge.
The beauty of this program is that all nominations were sent in by current or former students. Nomination boxes were distributed to each school in the county and a nomination form was also available online. This is the first year of the program and 284 teachers were nominated by 546 students. All nominees will be recognized by the media, and the nine top recipients will be honored at a banquet in May.
The Alliance staff was instrumental in launching the program and is willing to do
something similar for your school district or REC. If you are interested, contact Karen Trujillo at [email protected]
for more information.
The 20th Annual
SNMERC Back to
School Administrators
Conference
What:
20th Annual SNMERC Back to School Administrators Conference
Where:
Ruidoso Convention Center
When:
July 7th - Golf Tournament at the Inn of The Mountain Gods
July 8th -9th Conference at the Ruidoso Convention Center
Host Hotel:
The Lodge at Sierra Blanca
For additional information contact David Willden, Executive Director of REC8 and SNMERC
2218 W. Grand, Artesia, NM 88210 Telephone: 575-748-6100 Facsimile: 575-748-6160
Email: [email protected]
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Students working during Mesa Day
On February 27, 2015, NM MESA, Inc. hosted over 450
high school students from MESA schools across New
Mexico for its 27th Annual MESA Day at the Las Cruces
Convention Center in Las Cruces. The competition events
were based on NM MESA’s 2015 theme, Programming
in Nature and for the Future.
For the engineering prepared design project event, each
student team competed with its uniquely designed device
in the Prosthetic Arm Challenge. Student teams,
comprised of 2-4 students, were tasked with designing a
low cost prosthetic arm capable of efficiently lifting and
moving ten objects of varying sizes from one end of a
table to a bin on the other end. Teams were scored on the
number of objects they successfully moved during the
timed object relocation task. They also received a score
for their materials budget report, which they presented to
judges.
Prior to the event, students worked with a wide variety of
study resources to prepare for the On-Site Challenge, the
Brain Anatomy Stations Quest. During this event,
students rotated among 16 different stations and
demonstrated knowledge of the content by answering
questions using technology and a variety of hands-on
methods.
MESA students also spent time in the classroom learning
Alice Computer Programming. They submitted a final
project before the event, which was graded and combined
with their overall competition score.
Nicholas Kunz, NM MESA, Inc.
The competition was designed to encourage problem
solving through teamwork, and it also salutes NM MESA
students for their commitment to academic excellence and
reinforces NM MESA’s mission of preparing students for
college majors and careers in math, engineering and
science. As always, MESA Day is a great opportunity to
support our future professionals of New Mexico and in
many cases their families, friends and communities.
NM MESA is proud to announce the teams with the top
five overall scores:
1st Place: Las Cruces HS Team 1
2nd
Place: Mayfield HS Team 1
3rd
Place: Cibola HS Team 1
4th Place: Portales HS Team 1
5th Place: Alamogordo HS Team 3
Las Cruces High School Team 1
NM MESA’s mission is to “Empower and motivate
New Mexico's culturally diverse students with
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)
enrichment.” NM MESA is a year-round, multi-year,
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)
initiative that works with school districts and higher
education institutions to improve NM student STEM
performance, increase NM college STEM
enrollment, and provide hands-on STEM
competitions. Additional information can be found
on the NM MESA website: http://www.nmmesa.org
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NM MESA Hosts an Exciting and Successful
MESA Day Competition in Las Cruces
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NMSU COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Young Women in Computing
Summer Camps for
The Department of Computer Science will be hosting summer programs geared towards middle and high
school students and teachers. The Young Women in Computing (YWiC) program will host four weeks of computer science camps for middle and high school young women. The GK12 DISSECT program will host a two-week computational thinking camp, in partnership with the Center for Smart Grid Technology. All 3 programs will also host professional development (PD) sessions for GK12 faculty and CS faculty in area high schools. The PD opportunities will also be open to middle and high school teachers who are interested in learning more about or becoming computer science teachers in K-12 education. The Young Women in Computing (YWiC) day camps will run Monday - Friday, from 9:00am - 2:00pm, in Las Cruces on the New Mexico State University campus! Snacks, lunch, and beverages will be served throughout the day. YWiC Camp Curriculum is designed to expose all participating young women to different programs in order to help broaden computing exposure, increase confidence in approaching computing ideas, and even build on computational thinking skills! The more you learn, the more you will discover! Leading directly to your ability to learn ANY software package out there! For more information, visit www.cs.nmsu.edu/ywic!
YWiC Middle School Summer Camps for Girls Session I: June 1 - 5, 2015: SNAP! Programming, Computational Textiles & CS Principles Session 2: June 8 - 12, 2015: Lego NXT Mindstorm Robotics, HTML & CS Principles
YWiC High School Summer Camp (for young women) June 15 - 26, 2015: LilyPad Arduino, Lego NXT Mindstorm Robotics, HTML, & Javascript
Computational & Smart Grid Inventions, for high school students (both young women and men) This camp will be held in July, but final dates are pending. Week 1: Arduino Board Design and Computational Thinking Week 2: App Inventor and Power & Smart Grid Tech Professional Development June session: June 8 - 12 or June 15 - 19, Monday - Thursday, 2:30pm - 5:30pm, dates are being finalized July 6 - August 6 session: NMSU Summer Session II: CS 187, Java Programming. This online course will be open to anyone interested in learning the Java programming language. It will be held during the second five-week session for NMSU Summer School, July 2 - August 6, 2015. Tuition will be paid for up to 15 K-12 faculty
members who submit applications for scholarships through a competitive process.
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The STEM Outreach Center at New Mexico State University and the City of Las Cruces will be celebrating the many
innovations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics on April 4th, 2015 at the Las Cruces Convention
Center. Join us for a full day of great STEM-based hands-on activities for the whole family.
Activities will include a planetarium, 3D printing, virtual reality with Oculus Rift, creative circuitry with Makey
Makey and littleBits, robotics, reading and literacy, math exploration, fun with science, and much more!
We hope you'll join us for this FREE event! The first 300 families will receive goodie bags!
Go to:
http://www.stemoutreach-nm.org/special-events/
To REGISTER FOR STEM OUTREACH SUMMER CAMPS
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Continuing a long-standing tradition, the
STEM Outreach Center, under the direction
of Dr. Susan Brown, is hosting an entire
month and a half of free engineering and
robotics themed summer camps. The camps
are offered to any interested students who
have completed grades four through eight.
Our summer camps will cover Lego Robotic
themes, Green Screen Media projects,
LittleBits- the newest magnetic circuitry
boards and Robotic storytelling curriculum.
Visit our website for more information
stemoutreach-nm.org.
MC2 Director: Wanda Bulger-Tamez [email protected] MathLab Coordinator: Sara Morales [email protected]
MC2 Math Lab engages both, teachers and students, in simultaneous teaching and learning experiences
during summer camps. Approximately 400 students will engage in deep mathematical learning, aligned
to New Mexico Common Core State Standards, for Grades 2, 3, 5 and Algebra 1. Students in lower and
upper elementary will explore different ways to think about numbers, figure out how big is a millionth
and discuss why multiplication and division work the way they do. Students in Algebra 1 will explore
algebraic functions as they relate to real world situations. Approximately 500 teacher participants from
K-3+ and MC2 partner districts, will be observing the lesson, in real time, in a nearby classroom.
Teachers will then spend the afternoon reflecting and debriefing about the lesson and planning next
steps.
Upcoming MC2
Math Lab for Summer 2015 will be hosted as described below:
Artesia – May 26 - 29, 2015 – Grades 2, 3, and 5
Las Cruces – June 1 – 5, 2015 – Grades, 2, 3, 5 and Algebra 1
Espanola – June 8 – 12, 2015 – Grades 2, 3, 5, and Algebra 1
Los Lunas – June 15 – 19, 2015 – Grades 2, 3, and 5
Gallup – June 22 – 26, 2015 – Algebra 1
Roswell – June 22 – 26, 2015 – Algebra 1
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Students at Math Lab 2014
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MC2
MATH LABS
CONTACT:
Sara Morales
Wanda Bulger-Tamez
Mathematically Connected Communities
Summer 2015 Math Labs throughout NM
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Pi of the Century Day
Teachers at Camino Real Middle School held a Pi of the Century day at their school. They challenged their students to memorize as many digits of Pi as possible. Miranda Antunez memorized 106 digist of Pi. She is pictured here with her teacher is Rina Viramontes.
NMSU ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
BORDERLANDS WRITING PROJECT
Ink-Spilling 2015
Joyful Learning for Students in Grades 7-12
Ink Spilling 2014
Ink-Spilling is a week-long writing day camp where students in grades 7 through 12 can explore
their abilities as they experience and practice various forms of writing with local writers, NMSU
professors, and each other. Visiting Borderlands Writing Project experts this year include Mark
Medoff and Amy Lanasa from the Creative Media Institute as well as a host of other excellent
teachers and writers. We will explore various genres as we create a community of writers and
enjoy flexing our creative muscles.
This year, we will meet from June 22 to June 26. We’ll begin at 10 and continue until 4 each
afternoon. Please save the date and plan to join us for Ink Spilling 2015!
If you are interested in more information or registration, contact [email protected].
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4th Annual ENLACE YOUTH RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Date: April 16, 2015 Time: 9am-4pm
Location: Arrowhead/Early College High School Medical Academy, Building 8 Multipurpose Room
The ENLACE Youth Research Conference was established four years ago in order to give youth a VOICE. Located at New Mexico State University, ENLACE Southern Program recognizes that the voices of youth in general, and low-income and youth of color in particular, are so often missing from educational research and contemporary debates on institutional and social policies that affect them. This research conference provides but one opportunity for ENLACE youth from across the Southern New Mexico region to dialogue and engage with each other around the important issues that matter to them. It is also a space for them to share and discuss results and findings from their Youth Action Research Projects (YARP) and to share actions and solutions grounded in their research. The YARP projects use the Participatory Action Research model to bring people together, particularly those on the margins of society, to identify what problems and issues they are facing and to contemplate solutions. Throughout the school year ENLACE youth identify an issue, review the research literature related to the issue, collect and analyze data using rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods, and the conference offers them the chance to present their results. The research project and conference serve to facilitate community building and develop the leadership capacity of ENLACE youth so that they can then apply their agency toward creating the kind of change they wish to see in their communities. If you are interested in more information about starting an ENLACE program at your school or attending the conference, contact Dr. Federico Marquez [email protected] or Dr. Christopher Adams [email protected].
ENLACE FALL 2014 YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
Visit The Alliance website for updates
http://alliance.education.nmsu.edu/
Contact the Alliance Staff with comments and suggestions
Dr. Michelle Valverde Dr. Karen Trujillo
Director of Community Outreach Director of K-12 Outreach
[email protected] [email protected]
575-646-1358 575-646-1555
District Superintendent E-mail Phone Number
Alamogordo Public
Schools Adrianne Salas [email protected] (575) 812-6000
Animas Public Schools Loren Cushman [email protected] (575) 548-2299
Cobre Consolidated School
District
Robert Mendoza [email protected]
(575) 537-4011 Jose Carrillo [email protected]
Deming Public Schools Dan Lere [email protected] (575) 546-8841
Dexter Consolidated
Schools Lesa Dodd [email protected] (575) 734-5420
Gadsden independent
school district Efren Yturralde [email protected] (575) 882-6203
Hagerman School District Ricky Williams [email protected] (575) 752-3254
Hatch Valley Public
Schools Linda Hale [email protected] (575) 267-8200
Lake Arthur Municipal
Schools Michael Grossman [email protected] (575) 365-2407
Las Cruces Public Schools Stand Rounds [email protected]
(575) 527-6630 Steve Sanchez [email protected]
Lordsburg Municipal
Schools Randy Piper [email protected] (575) 654-3255
Loving Municipal Schools Ann Lynn McIlroy [email protected] (575) 745-2005
Pecos Independent School
District Fred Trujillo [email protected] (505) 757-4690
Reserve Independent
Schools Bill Green [email protected] (575) 533-6241
Silver Consolidated
Schools Lon Streib [email protected] (575) 956-2000
Tatum Municipal Schools Buddy Little [email protected] (575) 398-4455
Truth or Consequences
Municipal Schools Craig Cummins [email protected] (575) 894-8165
Tularosa Municipal
Schools Brenda Vigil [email protected] (575) 585-8828
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Contact Information for Member Districts
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