This Speaker's Forum is sponsored by the How Kids Learn Foundation, The California Teaching Fellows Foundation, Central Valley Afterschool Foundation, and Tulare County Office of Education.

TOPIC: Expanded Learning Programs and Teacher Preparation: How Afterschool and Summer Programs Are Producing Tomorrow's Teachers!

In the Central Valley and across the country, we are asking the questions of 1) how can we attract and retain more classroom teachers for our schools and 2) how can we support them with pre-teaching experiences that will better prepare them to engage their young learners? We believe that the expanded learning community can support the teacher pipeline and help prepare new teachers to more easily form meaningful relationships with their students and to promote the academic and social emotional skills that we know are critical to success in school, work, and life.

PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dewitt Jones (Photographer, Author, and Public Speaker) at 8:30am

HOW KIDS LEARN SPEAKER: Dr. Ken Futernick (Director, EduCorps at the CSU Chancellor’s Office) at 10:00am

OTHER SPEAKERS: Fredrick Nelson (FSU), CTFF Alumni Anna Zimmerman, Dr. Laurel Ashlock (CUSD), and Karl Klimek.

MORE ABOUT THE HKL SPEAKER: Ken Futernick is a life-long educator, writer, and educational consultant to schools, school districts, and policy makers across the United States. His interests include labor-management partnerships, educator recruitment and retention, school and district transformation, implementation science, and systems design.

In 2008, Ken helped found and direct the School Turnaround Center at WestEd, a national nonprofit educational research and service organization based in San Francisco. He and his colleagues helped school leaders across the nation improve student outcomes by strengthening teaching and learning conditions.

Currently, Ken directs EduCorps, a new teacher recruitment initiative at the California State University.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Individuals from both the school day (mid level management, administrators, superintendents, and key district officials) and the expanded learning/after school space; School Board members; those from Higher Education in teacher development from Fresno State; legislative stakeholders; and those interested in expanding teacher pathways.

How Kids Learn Speaker's Forum - CTFF