Our Children Can’t Wait: Ensuring Equity for All

Pacific Oaks College – School of Human Development and Education, in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Transformation of Schools (CTS) and Pasadena Unified School District invite you to attend Our Children Can’t Wait: Ensuring Equity for All, featuring a keynote from CTS Executive Director Dr. Joseph Bishop.

Join for a full day of programming that will cover topics including support for Black students and families, the educator pipeline, youth in research, and parent/caregiver advocacy. Dr. Joseph Bishop will share highlights from Our Children Can’t Wait: The Urgency of Reinventing Education Policy in America, a new book and podcast that explores how conditions outside of school like housing, health, air quality, community safety and many other factors affect youth before they even reach the classroom, and help us begin to reimagine the purpose and power of education policy in America. Learn more and purchase the book at https://ourchildrencantwait.com/.

Breakout sessions include:

• Black Student & Family Success: Dr. Kimi Wilson
• BIPOC Family Engagement: Dr. Yvette Latunde
• Building Emotional Intelligence and Empathy in Children: Dr. Eugenia Rodriguez
• Educator Pipeline: Partnership in Action: Dr. Kristina Turley, Dr. Raquel Torres-Retana, Dr. Leticia Rojas
• Empowering Parents: Dr. Carlene Fider
• Student Voice: Truth to Power: Sahba Sarwar

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