CABE 2018

“I check my systems for equity every time I enter my classroom.”
2nd grade teacher

In our everyday practice as educators we are immersed in numerous systems related to teaching, learning and using language for liberating or limiting outcomes.

In this keynote presentation, I will highlight powerful, equity-centered practices undertaken by members in our school communities. These practices reflect our struggle to disrupt systems of racism and other forms of oppression and to develop the rich human potential within every student.

We will be encouraged to check our own systems, and to change those within our spheres of influence which prevent us from embracing the hidden assets of language, experiences, cultural wisdom, hopeful histories, hard truths and sorely-needed skills as we work to ensure equitable outcomes for all.

Enid Lee will be signing her book immediately following this session and also in the Author’s Corner in the Exhibit Hall on Thursday at 2:45 pm.

Claudio Sánchez, a native of Nogales, Mexico, graduated from Northern Arizona University with postbaccalaureate studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. As an Education Correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), he focuses on the “three Ps” of education reform: politics, policy and pedagogy. A former elementary and middle school teacher, he now reports regularly on NPR’s award-winning news magazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
Claudio joined NPR in 1989, after serving for a year as executive producer for the El Paso, Texas-based Latin American News Service, a daily national radio news service covering Latin America and the U.S.- Mexico border. From 1984 to 1988, Sanchez was the news and public affairs director at KXCR-FM in El Paso. During this time, he contributed reports and features to NPR’s news programs.
In 1985, Claudio received one of broadcasting’s top honors, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, for a series he co-produced, “Sanctuary: The New Underground Railroad.” In addition, he has won the Guillermo Martínez-Márquez Award for Best Spot News, the El Paso Press Club Award for Best Investigative Reporting and was recognized for outstanding local news coverage by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
He was named as a Class of 2007 Fellow by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. In 2008, Claudio won First Prize in the Education Writers Association’s National Awards for Education Reporting, for his series “The Student Loan Crisis.”