Former Second Lady Jill Biden is keynote speaker for Teachers' Summit at CSUCI

CSU Chanel Islands News

July 18, 2017 — Professor of English and the former Second Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, Ph.D. will be the keynote speaker for the third annual “Better Together” California Teachers’ Summit.The event will be held Friday, July 28 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Grand Salon at CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI). This is the third year that CSUCI will host one of the statewide events.“Better Together” coordinator Dianne Wilson-Graham, Executive Director for the California Physical Education-Health Project, said more than 300 educators are expected at the event, which will run simultaneously with Better Together Events on 35 campuses throughout California.“We are expecting to reach our full capacity,” said Wilson-Graham. “This is a wonderful opportunity for local teachers to come together and talk across schools, across grade levels, and across districts about those things that matter to teachers.”The Summit is a collaborative effort among the California State Universities, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, and New Teacher Center.  The event is open to all California Pre-K-12 teachers, teacher candidates, and school administrators.The morning will begin with a welcome followed by Biden’s address, which will be live-streamed to all 35 campuses from where she will be speaking at St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area.“In her 30 years in education, she has taught at community colleges, a public high school and a psychiatric hospital for adolescents,” Wilson-Graham said. “As the Second Lady, she highlighted the importance of community colleges to America’s future. We are looking forward to her insights on how teachers can change the lives of students for the better.”At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Biden said: “For me, being a teacher isn’t just what I do — it’s who I am.”After Biden’s keynote address, teachers will hear two “Ed Talk” sessions from local teachers.Fashioned after the popular “TED ...

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