Call for Proposals
The strength of the Prepárate conference is built upon the ideas, experiences, and best practices of educators who work to empower Latino students every day. We encourage you to share your stories and successes by leading a session at Prepárate 2010. We are specifically seeking proposals on the following topics:
- Raising expectations and academic achievement
- Preparing Latino students to enter a global economy
- Involving parents in education
- Using data to inform instruction
- Implementing testing and accountability measures
- Creating P-20 partnerships
Preference will be given to proposals for sessions that:
- Highlight programs, services or policies that improve educational access and success for all students.
- Include speakers from multiple institutions and/or regions
- Foster dialogue between educators from different professional areas.
- Provide research and data to support claims and document outcomes.
- Share best practices and examples of what works and what doesn't work.
Benefits
As a session leader, you will have an opportunity to:
- Share your knowledge and experiences.
- Gather valuable feedback from peers.
- Showcase educational partnerships that promote advancement and opportunity.
- Help shape the agenda of the College Board and the education community.
Submit Your Proposal
All proposal submissions are due by Oct. 30, 2009. To submit your online proposal submission:
- Follow the conference information and instructions below.
- Click the Submit a proposal button at the bottom of this page.
Guidelines and Procedures
Please read and follow the proposal submission guidelines. We cannot consider submissions that do not meet this criteria.
- All main sessions are scheduled for 75 minutes. Plan your session to allow for sufficient Q&A time.
- Submit a proposal only if you have secured funding from your institution to attend the conference and only if you are available to present at any time on March 1-2, 2010.
- Presenters are offered a discount on the conference registration fee.
- Presenters are responsible for their own travel and hotel arrangements and expenses.
- Limit the description to no more than 90 words.
- Focus on what participants will be doing, rather than what they will be receiving. Use action words such as "survey," "review," "assess," and "examine" to keep the description centered on the participant experience.
- Write in general terms about the topic, rather than reviewing the entire presentation.
- Emphasize what participants can do with the information and knowledge gained.
- Clearly state and describe the actual skills participants will develop during the workshop, as well as the specific ways the skills can be applied to the participants' work.
- Make your learning outcomes tangible and concrete; they should be observable and assessable, if needed.
- Participants will learn how to teach analysis of narrative structure through a discussion of an author's intentions.
- By learning about different assessment methods, participants will develop the skills needed to compare the effectiveness of formative and summative assessments. Participants will then design three formative assessment activities that they can use.
- After hearing from the panel, participants will develop strategies for identifying faith-based and academic resources in the community, and for getting parents involved in the application process, in order to assist their students.
Writing the Session Description
As you are writing your session description:
Writing Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes are key in helping us understand the focus of your session. They also help participants determine which sessions to attend, based on specific needs. In order to develop an effective learning outcome:
Here are a few examples of effective learning outcomes:
Other Considerations
If you are interested in promoting a specific product, please send an email to preparate@collegeboard.org, to discuss exhibit or sponsor opportunities.
Given time and space constraints, as well as our need to develop a balanced program, we may not be able to accept all exceptional proposals. If your proposal is not accepted for this year's conference, we encourage you to try again for next year's conference.
The Prepárate Steering Committee reviews all proposals and will notify you of its decisions via email in November 2009.
If you have any questions, please send an email to preparate@collegeboard.org.
