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55th Annual TYCA Northeast Conference
2020 (Virtual) Vision:
Teaching English in Our Changing Landscape
This year TYCA-NE will hold a one-day virtual conference on October 16, 2020.
With the ongoing pandemic, educators are moving to an online teaching environment that presents many challenges. In exploring our theme, “2020 (Virtual) Vision: Teaching English in our Changing Landscape,” we look forward to sharing virtual time with our colleagues across the nation to discuss these important topics.
Together with our generous sponsor Hawkes Learning, TYCA-NE will host two enlightening presentations that focus on diversity and inclusion in our classrooms and the world.
We invite our TYCA-NE members to log in and join these talks featuring two nationally-known speakers, which will be followed by question and answer sessions.
Speakers: Isaac Bryan & Richard Blanco
When: 9:45 am to 1:30 pm, Friday, October 16, 2020
Session details:
9:45am EDT: Welcome and Introduction from Hawkes Learning and TYCA-Northeast followed by Morning Keynote Speaker: Mr. Isaac Bryan
Isaac Bryan is a policy shaper and published scholar. His work has helped to advance activist led movements and policy change around issues of racial, economic, and social justice. His commitment to serving the community has been tireless. Currently, Isaac serves as the founding Director of the UCLA Black Policy Project, head of the Public Policy Division for the Million Dollar Hoods Project, and as the Director of Public Policy for the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center. He also co-chairs the Los Angeles Unified School District Task Force on School Policing and sits on the executive board of the Justice LA Coalition. He has been featured in numerous media publications including NPR, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, VOX, and others.
12:00 pm EDT: Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Mr. Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco belonged to three countries within a few months of being born—Cuba, Spain, and the United States—a foreshadowing of the negotiations of cultural identity, community, and belonging that would shape his life and continue to inform his work. As an educator, poet, memoirist, and essayist, Blanco captivates audiences around the world with his dynamic storytelling, and powerful readings. He is an advocate for diversity, LGBTQ rights, immigration, arts education, cultural exchange, and other important issues of our time. Among other, notable accomplishments, in 2013, Blanco was selected by President Obama as the fifth inaugural poet in U.S. History. He stands as the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role.