Each year, NAME conferences offer a special Saturday program to serve local preK-12 educators. This one-day event allows participants to design their own outstanding professional development day focused on curriculum and instruction at the  preK-12 level. Teacher Day participants can choose from 60+ sessions, including a strand focused on teaching Ethnic Studies as California launches ethnic studies in our secondary schools.

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DETAILS:
 Saturday, Nov.16th
 9:00am – 5:00pm 

Location: Hilton Anaheim
777 Convention Way, Anaheim CA 92802

Cost:  $ 75

SPEAKERS for NAME's 2024 PreK-12 Teacher Educators Day Include:

Bre Evans-Santiago
CSU–Long Beach

Bre Evans-Santiago is an award winning author for one of her books, Mistakes We Have Made: Implications for Social Justice Educators. She is passionate about QBIPOC thriving and belonging in school settings. 

Eunice Ho
Middle & Hi School Educator

Eunice Ho is a Ethnic Studies practitioner and practices humanizing, healing-centered, praxis-driven, and place-based critical pedagogy. She is a former Ethnic Studies high school and middle school teacher who taught in Los Angeles and Orange County.

Darlene Okamoto Lee
UCLA

Darlene a mother, partner, daughter and teacher interested in fighting for and cultivating wholeness, justice, liberation and transformation. She is a faculty advisor in the UCLA Teacher Education Program and directs the UCLA Ethnic Studies Specialization Program for TK-12 Educators.

Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen
UCSD

A former bilingual elementary teacher, Gallagher-Geurtsen, struggles in solidarity with communities of color and Indigenous communities for a decolonial, liberatory, and self-determined education.

Gustavo Flores
UC-Berkeley

Gustavo Flores is a Teacher Coordinator Trainer for Ethnic Studies and English teachers for the Puente Project Secondary Statewide Programs. . He has 25 years of experience as an educator in Alvord Unified School District, and 14 years of experience as an adjunct faculty at Riverside City College.

Marisol Ruiz
NM Highland University

Marisol Ruiz is a researcher at New Mexico Highland University and professor at Cal Poly Humboldt in the School of Education. Her research focus is on Critical Social Justice Multi/Bilingual Transformational Pedagogies that lead to youth self- determination, empowerment, and organizing to transform themselves, community and world.

Elena Valdez
NM Highland University

Elena V. Valdez is a Professor in Residence in the Institute for Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Learning & Teaching.  Her teaching and research focus on twentieth-century American literature, Chicana/o literature and print culture, the politics of archives, and place-based pedagogy.

Miguel Zavala
UC Riverside

The son of Mexican immigrant industrial workers, Miguel Zavala is Associate Professor in the School of Education. A former middle school teacher and grassroots organizer, he has worked preparing teachers in the areas of literacy and ethnic studies over the last 15 years. His most recent publications include  Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools (with Christine Sleeter).