Annual Report 2009-2010 - Graduate School of Education and ...

California Association for Bilingual Education Supports English-Language LearnersFor the last five years, student teachers from the master of arts in education with teaching credential (MAETC) and UrbanFellows programs at GSEP have guided the students at Animo Leadership Charter High School toward successful collegecareers. GSEP’s relationship with Animo has been cultivated by Dr. Reyna Garcia-Ramos, professor of education and facultyadvisor of the GSEP chapter of the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE), who has worked to establishuniversity-school partnerships that allow future teachers extensive learning experiences with the English-learner youth in ourcommunities. As an extension of this collaboration, GSEP students brought 50 Animo students to the Pepperdine UniversityMalibu campus on March 15 to get a “feel” for college. This is the fourth year that Garcia-Ramos has led this initiative.Following that event, the CABE chapter sent two of its officers; vice president Daniel Alfaro (MA ’10), alumnus of the MAETCprogram; and secretary Luis Rodriguez (BS ’94, MA ’09), alumnus of the master of arts in education (MAE) program, toAdvocacy Day at the state capitol on April 14. The trip was made possible by a partnership between the national CABEorganization and the National Council of La Raza. Advocacy Day is an opportunity to meet and lobby California legislators onissues related to effective schools and the educational of English learners across the state. Both Alfaro and Rodriguez aresecondary school teachers in local schools, and were visiting Sacramento for the first time.On April 20 at the West Los Angeles Graduate Campus, CABE hosted guest speaker Linda Guthrie, former secondary vicepresident of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) and trainer for the Governor’s Institute, at the CABE chapter meeting.Guthrie taught in New York City for a year and was a history professor at North Carolina Central University before coming toteach at the prestigious Sacred Heart Academy for Girls in La Cañada-Flintridge. While teaching for 25 years at Virgil MiddleSchool, she was the UTLA chapter chair and chair of the English and ESL Department. She is member of the team thatdeveloped the English as a second language (ESL) course of study.Students closed the semester with an end-of-year social on June 26 at El Mercado de Los Angeles,a historic restaurant in the city. Attendees enjoyed great food and mariachi music in celebration ofthe year’s efforts to ensure that all children have access to quality educational experiences.p [ 15 ]