2012 FEA National Conference Schedule
(All times are subject to change.)
| Registration Hours |
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| Friday, February 17, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| February 17 – Friday | |
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| All Day | Campaign Booths for FEA National Student Officer Candidates |
| 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Education: Changing Lives, Changing the World – America Ferrera and Dinner with PDK/PLT International conference attendees (registered guests welcome) |
| February 18 – Saturday | |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
College Day |
| 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. |
General Session: FEA National Student Officer Presidential Candidate Speeches |
| 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
Topical Sessions and Competitions |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Topical Sessions and Competitions |
| 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. |
Teaching, Learning and the Power of the Human Factor – Michele Shearer and Luncheon (registered guests welcome) |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Topical Sessions and Competitions |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. |
Topical Sessions and Competitions |
| February 19 – Sunday | |
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| 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
The Passion of Teaching – Lily Eskelsen and Awards Ceremony and Breakfast |
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Keynote Speakers
Opening Keynote: America Ferrera
Friday, Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Education: Changing Lives, Changing the World
America Ferrera is best known for her fearless portrayal of "Betty Suarez" on ABC television's hit comedy Ugly Betty, a role that earned her an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as ALMA and Imagen awards.
Ms. Ferrera recently starred in the hit Oscar-nominated Dreamworks animated film How to Train Your Dragon and is currently preparing to record its sequel. Other acting credits include Lords of Dogtown (2005), How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005), Under the Same Moon (2007), and both parts of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005, 2008).
Ms. Ferrera served as an artist ambassador for the global humanitarian organization Save the Children and recently raised more than $44,000 to build a new elementary school in Mali. She was the 2010 recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Inspira Award, and the recipient of the 2011 Global Action Award for Childhood Development and Education for her work with Save the Children in Mali.
In March 2011, Ms. Ferrera was named the national recipient of the Cesar E. Chavez Legacy Award for her commitment to helping lead underprivileged families and youth to a better life and education.
Saturday Keynote: Michelle M. Shearer
Saturday, Feb. 18, 12:15 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
Teaching, Learning and the Power of the Human Factor
(Photo courtesy of Luminous Photos by Elsa Marks)
Michelle Shearer is the 2011 National Teacher of the Year. Ms. Shearer teaches Advanced Placement chemistry at Urbana High School in Frederick, Md. In her 10 years at Urbana High School, Ms. Shearer has taught all levels of chemistry. Previously, she taught high school chemistry and mathematics at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick.
Ms. Shearer is an advocate for STEM education for all K-12 students and successfully reaches those who have been traditionally underrepresented in scientific fields, including students with special needs and those from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. Her teaching methods rely heavily on real-life applications of scientific concepts.
She holds a bachelors degree in chemistry from Princeton University and graduate degrees in education and deaf education.
Sunday Keynote: Lily Eskelsen
Sunday, Feb. 19, 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
The Passion of Teaching
Lily Eskelsen, an elementary teacher from Utah, is Vice President of the National Education Association. She is one of the highest-ranking labor leaders in the country and one of its most influential Hispanic educators.
She began her career in education as a lunch worker in a school cafeteria. She became a kindergarten aide and was encouraged by the teacher to go to college and become a teacher herself. She worked her way through the University of Utah on scholarships, student loans, and as a starving folk singer, graduating magna cum laude in elementary education and later earning her master’s degree in instructional technology.
After teaching for only nine years, she was named Utah Teacher of the Year. A year later she was elected president of the Utah Education Association. Ms. Eskelsen was president of the Utah State Retirement System, only the second woman to ever be elected to the position; president of the Children at Risk Foundation; and was a member of the White House Strategy Session on Improving Hispanic Education.
Ms. Eskelsen’s education advice has been published in Parenting magazine, and she serves on the advisory board for Parenting's Mom Congress.She has been featured on MSNBC and CNN en Espanol.
She believes that no matter how students arrive, and no matter what their learning conditions, their home conditions or their health conditions, that educators have the sacred duty to be professionals and to care for the whole child. And she believes that professionalism carries the responsibility to take action, individually and collectively, to fight to make the promise of public education a reality and to prepare every student to succeed.