Student Voices: Addressing Issues of CLD Student Access, Voice, and Identity in Education

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Student Voices Addressing Issues of CLD Student
Access, Voice, and Identity in Education
Amanda Morales Gabriela Sabates BESO
Undergraduate Students Kansas State University
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BESITOS Bicultural Education Students
Interacting to Obtain Success

• MISSION
• Increase the number of highly qualified and
  cross-culturally diverse educators available to
  support the differential learning and transition
  needs of culturally and linguistically diverse
  (CLD) students in Kansas and throughout the
  nation.

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Kansas Schools

• In the past ten years
• Caucasian population has decreased
• Hispanic population steadily grew by 300

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Higher Education Where Does Kansas State Stand?

• In 2003, of a total student headcount of 20,648,
  K-State reported 456 students who identified
  themselves as either Hispanic or Mexican
  American, which is only 2.2 of the total student
  population.

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Our Students Home Communities Represented

• Kansas Garden City, Junction City, Manhattan,
• Dodge City, Salina, Sublette,
  Emporia,
• Topeka, Liberal, Andover,
  Tecumseh,
• Kansas City, Santanta, Hugoton,
  Meade, Lyons
• Texas Fort Hood, Uvalde, Corpus Christi
• California Los Angeles
• Colorado Springfield
• Alaska Anchorage

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Countries Of Origin

• United States
• Mexico
• El Salvador
• Nicaragua
• Vietnam
• Nigeria
• Puerto Rico

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Community Colleges Partnerships

• Dodge City Community College
• Garden City Community College
• Seward County Community College
• Students recruited to attend community colleges
  48
• Students recruited to attend K-State 70
• Total students recruited 118

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B.E.S.O. Bilingual Education Student Organization

• B.E.S.O.s main goals are
• To increase awareness of cultural and ethnic
  diversity on campus
• To serve as a network for future bilingual
• teachers
• To provide educational service to the
• surrounding community.

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Teachers Of The Future
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Reflection

• Identify one line from this presentation that you
  connected with in some way (positively or
  negatively). Write it down.
• Describe how this line is either meaningful or
  unrepresentative of your experience.

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Your Recommendation, Please

• How would you use this material?
• Please provide us with your valuable ideas.

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