PROGRAM
Summit on "21st Century Quality Education: Issues and Opportunities"
Oct 8, 2010: 10 a.m., Anatol Center, CSULB
Morning Presentation: "Charles Fadel on Technology and 21st Century Skills"
Streamed to the Anatol Center or online (Guest link: http://tinyurl.com/fadelpresentation)
Charles Fadel is co-author of "21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times." He is the global leader for education at Cisco Systems and the Cisco board member of Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
Lunch Provided
Afternoon Panel: "Issues in Providing Quality 21st Century Education: Focus on K-16 and the CSU"
1 pm: Opening Comments by President Alexander on Quality Education for the 21st Century (schedule permitting)
Panel Participants (1:15 - 2:45)
Joshua Pechthalt (United Teachers of Los Angeles, Vice President): "Quality in K-12"
Mike Matsuda (President of the North Orange County Community College Board of Trustees): "How p21 Can Address the Achievement and Basic Skills Gap"
Prof Kimberly King (Cal State LA): "Access and Equity: The Challenge of Early Start"
Prof. John Edlund (CSU Pomona): "The Issue of Quality in Developmental English Courses"
Break
3-4:30
Prof. Babette Benken (CSULB): "Quality Mathematics Education: Ideals and Challenges"
Leslie Kennedy (Coordinator of Instructional Technology, CSULB): "Quality Education and Technology"
Steve Teixeira (Academic Professionals of California): "Unions as Advocates for Quality, Equal Education"
Student Perspective: Hector Cerda (CSU Fresno), "Students for Quality Education"
Keynote Speaker
Charles Fadel is Global Education Lead at Cisco Systems, and the Cisco board member at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (of which Cisco was a founding member), Innovate/Educate and Change the Equation (two organizations dedicated to advocacy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). He is vice-chair of the Education committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and works with several teams at the OECD – PISA, AHELO, PIAAC, CELE, and TALIS. He has worked with a wide variety of education ministries and organizations in Massachusetts, Canada (Federal, New Brunswick and PEI), France, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica, Tunisia, and the Dominican Republic, to name a few, and has worked on education projects with more than thirty countries and states. Charles has co-authored a book titled “21st Century Skills – Learning for Life in our Times” (Wiley) http://www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com/index.php, and frequently lectures on this topic, as well as STEM, and Education Technology. His work spans the continuum of Schools, Higher Education, and Workforce Development/Lifelong Learning.
Afternoon Panelists:
Babette Benken, PH.D. is an Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor for mathematics education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at CSU, Long Beach. For over 20 years, Dr. Benken has been a mathematics and teacher educator, participating from multiple perspectives: as a secondary mathematics teacher (certified in math and English), K-12 administrator, in-service professional, university professor, state-level committee member, and educational consultant. Currently, she serves as a curriculum developer, researcher, and administrator for two large-scale grants, both of which have Long Beach Unified School District as their district partner; she also teaches at the graduate level. Her research interests include models of teacher development, the role knowledge, beliefs, and context play in shaping teachers' practices, and how to structure program and courses in ways that support mathematically anxious students' learning of content.
Leslie Kennedy is the director of instructional technology support services at California State University, Long Beach. She has a diverse background in academics, which includes the Online Teaching Certificate Program at UCLA Extension, an M.S. in Education from the Online Learning and Teaching Program at CSU Hayward and an M.A. in Linguistics from CSU Long Beach. She is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in educational leadership. She was previously a tenured faculty member at Fullerton College where she was responsible for technology training and the online learning programs in addition to being a faculty member of the English as a Second Language department. She also developed courses and taught in the faculty-based Online Certificate Program for the California Virtual Campus (CVC). Ms. Kennedy came to the university from a position with WebCT, where she served as an LMS implementation manager and teaching and learning consultant with special focus on best practices of e-learning. Ms. Kennedy has a unique combination of relevant vendor and first hand experience as a faculty member that enables her to provide teaching, learning, and system administration services in the academic technology services organization.
Kimberly King, Ph.D. was born and raised in Oakland, CA. She received her B.A. in Psychology at Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and an associated faculty member in Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses in Community Psychology, Psychology of Gender, Prejudice and Discrimination, Research Methods, and Psychology and African Americans. Her research interests focus on the psychological and social effects of poverty and discrimination, intergroup relations between African Americans and Latinos, and the development of political consciousness and activism. Dr. King serves her union, the California Faculty Association (CFA), as a member Cal State LA’s CFA Executive Board and as a delegate to the statewide Council on Affirmative Action. She is a founding member of the Beautiful Struggle Collective, which produces Beautiful Struggle, a weekly public affairs radio program that airs on Pacifica’s KPFK Radio (90.7 FM) Tuesdays from 7-8 PM.
Mike Matsuda is president of the North Orange County Community College Board of Trustees. He is an award winning educator and Coordinator for Professional Development for the Anaheim Union High School District. He has also served as aCalifornia Curriculum Commissioner and member of the English Learner Advisory Committee for the State Board of Education. Additionally, Mr. Matsuda is vice president for Californians Together and chair of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance. Mr. Matsuda, along with other state education leaders,has recently formed the new California Coalition for P21. See: www.p21california.com
Steve Teixeira was one of thousands of 1960’s CSU students in a statewide movementfor greaterequity inhigher education. As more low-income students enrolled, most scored at "remedial" skill levels, despite having earned good grades in high school. To address this, Steve founded the university's Learning Skills Center. After developing legal education for farm and cannery workers through the 1980’s, he returned as a staffmemberat Cal State LA, designing a highly successful Summer Bridge program, and Supplemental Instruction courses for studentsin remedial and General Education courses. He currently serves as an officer of Academic Professionals of California, the union representing CSU'sacademic support professionals. His work has been published by California Faculty,and the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education.
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