 Welcome to the 20th annual IDRA La Semana de Lino Paran Institute. Bienvenidos a la vigésima edición anual de la Semana de Lino Instituto de Padres de Hidra. The co-sponsors of the institute are IDRA's Texas Education Café funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, our EAC South Equity Center, and Re-energize. Our special partners are the National Latino Children's Institute and HIPI, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters. Los co-patricinadores del instituto son el nuevo Texas Café Educación de Hidra, financiado por la Fundación Kellogg, nuestro Centro de Equidad, EAC South, y Re-energize. Nuestros socios especiales son el Instituto Nacional de Niños Latinos y HIPI, Instrucción en el Logar para Padres de Niños en Edad Prescolar. Our education café is expanded this year across the state to El Paso, Houston, and San Antonio, and they are here to participate. In fact, they have a session that they were told they're going to have a conversation at 9.30 about their starting their projects. From the successful development of these other comunitarios in the lower region of the valley, we are now expanding the model to other parts of the state and other parts of the country. El Café Educación Café empezó hace muchos años en el valle y ahorita está fundado por la Fundación Kellogg, se disparamos a Houston, El Paso, y San Antonio, y van a tener una presentación ellos en el grupo. Nos encantaría que les mandaran a la gente a través de las redes sociales que ustedes están aquí. We'd love if you let people know you're here with social media. Share some pictures and share your thoughts, enter things, things you learned, and questions you have on Twitter or Facebook or other social media. Please use the hashtags, hashtag fam engage and IDRAEDU, and be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter. The links are in your program. Los enlaces están en el programa para la red del internet. We'll be taking group photos in the garden before the end of the conference today. So before you go, be sure you gather your group into the garden and we'll post the pictures on our Flickr page and you'll be able to download the images for those of you that want those group pictures. Estaremos tomando fotos de grupo justo cuando terminemos hoy. Así que antes de irse, asegúrese que vayan al jardín a que les tomen fotos de grupo y eso es bastante en la página del internet donde pueden conectar con esas fotos. At each table, there's some orange and blue sheets. We're asking you to share your dreams for children and about their college future. Hay unas hojas, naranja y verde en las mesas, naranja y azul. Les pedimos que compartan sus sueños para los niños y sobre su futuro universitario. Déjenos en la mesa porque los vamos a colectar sus opiniones. In your packets, you have little cards for the exhibits, for the exhibitors. This is your ticket to get a door prize after lunch. So the exhibit room is down the hall when we change between sessions and then right after lunch you'll have time to go and visit the exhibits. Every visitor you exhibit will check off on your card. You'll have your name on the other side of it and we'll pick from those cards the door prizes and they'll be on a list in that room after lunch. So those of you that are interested in the door prizes, in any case visit our exhibitors please. En sus paquetes tiene una pequeña tarjeta con esos que están exposiendo sus materiales en el cuarto de exposiciones. Use este boleto para el sorteo de premio. Entonces si escriben su nombre en la tarjeta y visitan cada exhibit, entonces los vamos a colectar y después de la comida va a haber una lista de los que ganaron un premio, va a haber premios muy buenos de la conferencia. Our app is not working, nuestra app está ahorita, no está funcionando muy bien. We're hoping it gets to work before as the conference proceeds. Estamos teniendo problemas con la conexión, con el app que está en el programa. Voy a repasar el programa. I'm going to go over the program very quickly just so you know what's happening. A las 9 y media at 9 30, the sessions will start. La sesiones van a haber siete en cada round, siete sesiones. Tres en estos cuartos, we're going to have walls here. Van a haber paredes en este cuarto para separar tres sesiones. Y hay cuatro más cuartos aquí en el mismo salón donde están las otras presentaciones. Quiero anotar, por ejemplo, que las sesiones en este cuarto están en vivo. We are live streaming the sessions in this room. So we're going to have three live stream sessions here. The first one is the hippie presentation. The second one is the National Latino Children's Institute will be presenting here about el día de los niños. And then the third one is going to be coming in from the valleys and parents from South Texas will be presenting about their work in family leadership and education café. So eso va a ser aquí en este cuarto. También tenemos presentando, al mismo tiempo en otros cuartos, un grupo que vino de jóvenes que son totalmente biletrados. We have some fully biliterate students and a parent and their staff. They'll be presenting in one of the rooms about their program. And we will also have Miss Patricia Stout who was president of the Hispanic chamber and she will be presenting on investing in education for the economy and has a publication there. We will have a group that has just started organizing a few years ago called grandparents raising grandchildren, abuelitos que están creando a sus nietos y van a tener una presentación muy interesante también y vamos a tener pre-K for SA, San Antonio que va a estar presentando. We're going to have that presentation. In the next round, we're going to have, as I said, a live stream session here by Rebeca Barrera on their project, El Día de los Niños. David's lost up bullying, La Ley de David, de la Coso en el internet. We're going to have the Coca-Cola Value Youth students presenting. It's a cross-age tutoring program here in San Antonio. We're going to have a school board member presenting about school board members' responsibilities. So va a ver una variedad de presentaciones, escojan a dónde ir. Every session is 15 minutes in legs. Son 50 minutos y tienen 10 minutos para cambiar de cuarto. Okay. La tercera tanda empieza a las 11 y media y va hasta las 12 y 20. Between 11, 30 and 12, 20, and we're going to have the last round, then you're going to have 40 minutes between then and lunch, because we're going to give you time to take pictures and give you time to go to the exhibit hall, so you get your names in for the door price. When we have lunch, it starts at 12.45, and it'll be where breakfast is served. At 1 o'clock, we're going to have a press briefing here. De una a las dos, while you're still eating, we're going to have a press briefing. Vamos a tener la prensa aquí y vamos a celebrar varias cosas. Vamos a tener Rosie Castro, la madre de los gemelos Castro, que va a hablar. La presidenta de mi organización, our president who is retiring at the end of this year, Dr. María de Refugio Robledo Montesel, Cuca will be presenting and introducing Rosie. We're going to have some students, and then the National Latino Children's Institute will have a presentation at the briefing about el día de los niños y cómo lo podemos celebrar. So that is pretty much the program. Right now, we're going to end this session. Vamos a acabar esta sesión y dar este tiempo que buscan sus cuartos. Go find your rooms. If there are presenters here that still don't know where they're supposed to be, let me know up here. If there are some volunteers that I haven't talked to, please come up. But right now then we're going to have some interviews going on on the live streaming and we're closing the general session to give enough time to set up in the other rooms. You know, I said, thank you for being here. PSJA, where do they stand? Where do you want me to stand? I'm not on camera. You can be not on camera if you want. I don't want to be on camera. Make sure you block traffic. Okay. Could you give us your names, please? Karen Jimenez. Antonio Martinez. And they represent a group of students from the Farsan Juan Alamos school district who are graduating fully by literate. So Karen, what are the benefits of being fully by literate? Well, well, I come from Mexico. So being able to learn both languages at the same time and also just like be able to fully engage with both communities is really important. And I know eventually I'm going to use it in the work class workforce because now people are starting to speak more than one language. So I come from Mexico. I'm a first language of Spanish. So, you know, by graduating fully by literate, it helped me learn English very quick face. And, you know, it also helped me academically because I wasn't always the greatest student, but once I started to learn both languages at the same time, it has my academic ability very significantly, especially since I go into the sciences. So knowing both languages, it really helped me a lot. I want each of you to tell us what classes that are content classes in high school you've taken in Spanish. I have taken physics, anatomy and physiology, which is an extremely hard class to take English and Spanish. I also take in world history and computer programming. Well, I took chemistry in both languages and it helped me a lot because many of the words that you learned in chemistry were out there are from Latin, so the most similar language. So Latin is Spanish and you know, being able to make that connection from Latin to Spanish, you were able to make the connection from Spanish to English and you know, it just helped you process everything at a quicker pace and you know. Aside from taking the classes in Spanish, how are you set up for college? Do you have dual credit? How are you set up? What are you going to do? Well, we're actually not only dual-language students, but we're taking dual-language classes, which means that both of us, we're going to be graduating with our associate's degree from our community college. Oh, I'm doing an interdisciplinary study with a focus on business. Well, I'll be graduating when I associate in biology and taking to college, I'm planning to get a major in biology and if possible, a major in Spanish as well. What have been some of the challenges for you in being biliterate? Well, I came here knowing very little English, so at first it's really hard to be taking dual-language courses in which sometimes you don't know what the English part of it. It's actually like meaning, but in order to be in the dual-language program, you're learning both things in the same language, so it's easier for you to start learning it. Just knowing Spanish for me was a little bit hard because the standardized testing is in English, so just knowing Spanish, you kind of can't, you kind of can't understand the questions and so you fully learn English and, you know, it was the language barrier at first, but I was able to overcome that barrier once I started to learn both languages. Students, congratulations. Thank you very much. Mr. Wooten, would you tell us a little bit about your military background first? You bet. So I have about three decades of experience in the United States Air Force, and during that time, I did a lot of different things, but the last seven years or so, I focused extensively on cybersecurity, information technology, and those kinds of issues, running networks and then defending networks. And as you know, that has become one of the most critical parts of our country today, and as I left that job a couple years ago and transitioned into the civilian sector, it was apparent to me as well as all of my colleagues that of all the issues that we had in terms of technology, it was education that was the key. And I think so since then, that's been a focus for me. It's something that we don't think about very often, you know, when we think of technological issues and concerns with cybersecurity, that we're talking stuff that can be solved with technology. And that goes about this far, but the reality is it's people issue. It's about getting our folks to understand that, and we saw that at getting it, and again, I saw that when I worked with folks and young folks that came into the Air Force and that I had the chance to work with, how do we get them to solve the problems of our time from a national security issue, from an economic issue, and from a general national issue. So that really became my focus in the Air Force as I concluded my career working in those areas. What is the presentation you're going to make today? So I'll talk a little bit about the issue at hand with regard to technology and education, and, and especially with a focus on, you know, what can parents do, what can educators do? But I'm particularly excited to present a little bit about what we're what an organization that I'm a part of here in San Antonio is doing called Youth Code Jam. In essence, we teach kids how to code and but we make it so that it's fun. We make it so that they learn when they're not even realizing they're learning about it. We tie them together with their parents so the parents get a part of an an understanding of what they're doing. We bring teachers in and we have volunteers who have this background with an eye towards trying to get folks, young kids, to understand the basics of how their computers work, how their cell phones work, their iPads, all of these things that they they think they understand as cybernatives and they use them extensively. But the reality is, is we want to get it to where they understand them beyond that and that they can be a part of the solution as we grow this national need of folks who can understand computer science from the basics of coding all the way up to advanced capabilities. It's it's like a language and we want to teach them that language. From 7 to 17. So this year we've had extensive growth. 2017 we had 6000 kids go through the program. So we have had a massive amount of growth in San Antonio and we're excited. We think that we're going to go even beyond that this year. We have over 150 right now. I'm so excited about Youth Code Jam. It's awesome. And of course we have teachers that are apart and that we also do teacher classes for certification. It is citywide. It's actually countywide, I would say, and we are actually doing some expansion into the Austin area and and we hope that we'll expand even beyond that throughout state the state. And who knows after that, but but extensively throughout San Antonio. Well, retired general, we're glad you're with us. Oh, I'm excited to be here and thank you for the invitation. Thank you, sir. Miss Patricia Stout, who do you represent today? Well, today I represent I believe myself as an entrepreneur, but I'm past president of the Mexican Entrepreneurs Association and past chairman of the Hispanic Chamber and I'm past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners. So if you think about that, you think I'm all about business, but the truth of it is, is that I'm representing entrepreneurs that have a great need for educated, you know, employees to be hired for our companies. And that's how it started with Educate First. Your work ended up in actually two publications. What were those? The first year of the first publication was 2014 when I asked a very good friend of mine, John Gonzalez, to find out what's happening with the workforce in San Antonio and in the state. And then he got together with people with economic development and educators and investigators and the statistic, the statistical people that took us to a very interesting place. We realized that we were not educating our children and that we were not educating them from an early stage like three years old so that they could go to high school and then to college and then be able to pursue careers that would be of essence, I would say, so that they would grow the economy because when somebody is educated and has a job, they will buy a car, they will rent a home, they will use restaurants and et cetera, et cetera. They will pay more taxes to the state. So it's a circle. You know, you start educating children and the circle, you know, takes you to a prosperous city, a prosperous state in a happier community. So what is the title of the paper? And the second paper is Educate First with a dollar on the S because educating means providing education for people to gain great jobs, supporting our economy. And therefore, we felt that this paper would be, this is the second paper that I'm going to present, is the culmination of all the information that we gather, you know, to create this momentum for people to understand if we don't educate, we're not going there where we need to be. So you give that up, but what are the recommendations you make? The recommendations that we have in the paper is to start early, at early S3, educating the children, math, STEM, et cetera, you know, give your children a chance, children can learn a lot and fast, give them the opportunity. We need to find places where they need to go to learn. We find universities that will, you know, understand their needs. Also, understand that there's a lot of children that speak Spanish and that are just trying to get into the English, but I'm going to tell you, you speak Spanish and I speak English and that has opened so many doors. So we need to respect the first native language and then move from then on, because when you learn languages, you learn faster. It's very important because knowing another language creates many opportunities of work. That happened to me when I came to San Antonio. I spoke English, Spanish and French. Then the doors were open. I learned that by speaking three languages. I was different and my opportunities were greater. I came from Mexico City in 74 and I got a job within one week. Why? Because of the languages. What is your actual business that you run? I own one of the largest government travel service providers, the Alamo Travel Group. I have owned that company by myself since 1990. We were top 5,000 corporations of America. We were featured in Forbes magazine two years ago because of the work that we have done. Muchas gracias. Buena suerte con tu presentación. Good morning. Good morning. We're glad to see all of you here. I am Francesco Smann and I am assisting with the parent conference for IDRA and I know a little bit about this conference because I used to be a part of IDRA staff. Pero me da mucho gusto que estén aquí con nosotros. La presentación que tenemos hoy es algo muy, muy emocionante y a la vez muy interesante. The session that we have today comes from the HIPI program, the home instruction for children of preschool age. And we have three presenters with us. They are, I can't organize you. We have with us this Jessica García with your wave. Jessica, thank you. We also have Miss Jenny Guerrero. And then we also have with us Mr. Terry Todd. Miss, excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. It's mine. I was I was not looking at everything here. It's OK. We also have Miss Denise Treywig and Miss Genevieve Chavarria, who are with the HIPI program. And we have a local program here in San Antonio that is implementing the HIPI model. So you're going to get to hear a lot about that here. And so with any further ado, we do welcome our presenters here. And then I'll be the one that's going to keep the clock. I need you. You're going to need to interpret for me for just a moment. Good morning. I'm Terry Todd from the National Office at HIPI USA. I happen to be in town because we are hosting our National Leadership Conference starting Sunday at the Omni Colonnade here in San Antonio. And we could not let this moment pass by without coming by and helping with IDRA and supporting our local program. La señorita está aquí porque es parte de la Organización Nacional y ellos están aquí en San Antonio porque tienen su Conferencia Nacional de HIPI aquí pero querían venir apoyar el grupo de aquí de San Antonio y a la vez las dos presentadoras que hacen mucho en el proyecto aquí en San Antonio y por eso están aquí les dan la bienvenida y si necesitan cualquier información la tenemos. I'm happy to see you all here today. HIPI USA has a rich history with IDRA 30 years particularly because we have common goals and themes of parent engagement and transforming lives and you will learn more about that with our local program when they do their presentation. So we are thrilled to see you. Thank you for being here and thanks to our partners and everyone for the great work you do. La señorita nos platicó que IDRA, el programa de HIPI y el programa nacional y lo que tenemos aquí tenemos una historia de más de 30 años. Así que están muy gustosos estar aquí con nosotros van a aprender mucho más de lo que hace el programa aquí en San Antonio con nuestras presentadoras. Pero a la vez si ustedes tienen alguna pregunta o si quieren saber más en cómo tener un programa de HIPI ustedes aquí estamos para servirles y nos da mucho gusto para seguir con la presentación. My name is Jessica López. Jessica García. Perdón. Soy educador de casa por dos años y este programa es muy valuelo para los niños y miro que ha crecido mucho. Orita vamos a presentar en inglés y en español. My name is Jenny Guerrero. I've been with the HIPI program for two years. It's a preschool readiness program for children from three to five years old. Sorry we're just having a little bit difficult. Yes. We have actually been. Hemos estado en servicio por 30 años ya con HIPI en San Antonio y hemos tenido 7 años. Además hemos mirado muchos familiares familias crecer y se han graduado ya pienso que cuatro años de graduación con nosotros. So we've had about four years five years of HIPI here in San Antonio. We've had a great success with our families and we've had four graduating classes within San Antonio within the last years. We are starting at a new center at the Madonna Center and we are very pleased with our outcome and with the outreach as far as how we've grown and seeing that our families on the West side are actually really seeing the benefit in it. Also los las familias del ahora estamos en el centro de Madonna en el West side y es un nuevo programa y pero hemos tenido gracias hemos tenido un mucho avance en el programa y hemos crecido y ahorita estamos todavía estamos comenzando con el programa este año con nuevas familias y estamos viendo que las familias anteriores si hemos tenido mucha apoyo de la comunidad de ellos y les busca muchísimo el programa. I'm going to try I'm going to do the presentation without the slides for right now. So our presentation is called Home as a Learning Lab. So el hogar como laboratorio de aprendizaje. So the HIPI model research proven program model a 30 week curriculum for children ages three four and five years old weekly home visits to each parent school readiness skills shapes colors numbers science book knowledge pre math motor skills monthly parent meetings to network and learn together program coordinator supervises home visitors. Role play is the technique used to provide curriculum training to home visitors and parents. So el modelo de HIPI es un modelo del programa basado en evidencia son 30 semanas de curriculum para niños de tres cuatro y cinco años los educado educadores de visitan los padres una vez por semana a la habilidades de preparación escolar son de formas colores números conocimiento del libro ciencia pre matemática y habilidades motores. También tenemos reuniones reuniones de grupo mensuales para que los padres se puedan conocer y puedan convivir y puedan conectar con otros padres que tienen similares ideas para sus niños y el corredor del programa supervisa los educadores de la casa y también el juego de rol es una técnica que usamos en entrenar a los educadores de casa y también a los padres. So eso es le vamos a enseñar cómo lo hacemos un poquito en unos momentos y vamos a tener una actividad donde van a poder ustedes enseñar y ver un poquito de lo que nosotros hacemos por cada una vez por semana con cada familia. So the role of home educator reflects the community similar to to promoteers meets meet weekly which each parent in their caseload receives curriculum training from coordinator provides additional information resources to parents. El rollo educador de casa refleja la comunidad similar a promotoras reuniones semanales con cada padre es en la cargo de cosas proporcional recursos de información adicionales a los padres ahorita vamos a hablar un poquito de nuestras familias ahorita yo yo tengo 14 familias en mi carga de casos con 16 niños a mis semanas varían por mínimo unas cuantas veces por dependiendo en las familias porque si los niños enferman o algo tiene que pasa estamos disponibles a cambiar el horario para las familias para poder verlos y que trabajen juntos trabajamos juntos mucho. También avisamos nuestras familias a veces nuestras familias pasan crisis y les tratamos de ayudar con diferentes recursos como ayudar con la dispensaria de alimentos ayuda de utilidades al algunos no han cabado la escuela soledamos a sus recursos para que puedan caber la escuela y también seguir en el colegio también viendo los niños como crecen educativamente es un placer mi niño ha estado en el puente usted hubo en el programa por tres años y vi donde comenzó hasta que graduó y hasta ahorita que está en la escuela ya y a miro que le ayudó muchísimo el programa que yo tuve el tiempo para ayudarle y para ver que verlo crecer y también a los padres porque tenemos padres que son muy dedicados a sus hijos y les enseñamos diferentes técnicas para que puedan enseñarles a sus hijos y para que ellos sean la primera maestra de sus hijos. So I have 12 families in my case load and I have 12 12 children and schedules could change from week to week just depending you know I understand you know their children may have you know get sick something comes up so my families are very when it comes to me working with them and then working with me you know they understand that things come up and you know things happen so we're also a judgment free we go in their homes one day if they forget to clean we don't judge you know we walk in there pretend like we don't see nothing and we just go on with the curriculum and role play you know we try to keep the family we try to keep the families on track even though with the cancellations or the scheduled doctor's appointments you know what we do every once in a while we'll double up so sometimes we'll be in the house anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour and 30 minutes just depending on the situation and sometimes there is challenges with family crisis you know maybe a death in the family we don't see our families anywhere between two to three weeks and that's okay you know we understand you know we let the parents know that we're there for them and that if they need anything to please give us a call and whatever we could do to help them we're there. So ideas for sharing three year olds like to jump run kick climb draw build turn pages of a book open and close boxes doors drawer drawers remember and tell stories they can follow three step directions understand basics of time morning day and night counting things under understand in on over and under. A los tres años les les gusta correr patiar brincar dibujar construir pasos pasar las páginas de libros abrir y cerrar cajas puertas gabinetes recordar y contar cuentos pueden seguir instrucciones de tres pasos entender tiempo básico como mañana día noche y contar objetos en tener sobre de bajo dentro fuera pass out some supplies if we all can get into five groups. Scoot together if you all don't mind. Si se pueden mover a group of us as I said Cinco grupos por favor vamos a tener enseñar un actividad y van a poder ver lo que si si pueden un cinco grupos como la llena esta la cal no no más cinco grupos so si pueden dividarse por cinco grupos. To be big so if they want to kind of maybe. Yeah and then we're going to pass out. Vamos a darles unas objetos para que puedan ver lo que estamos un poquito de lo que hacemos usamos cosas de casa que uno puede tener en que uno tiene a mano no tienen que ir a comprar cosas para enseñar a sus hijos. So we do use supplies that are around the house. You know everybody has an empty box or maybe some string some yarn tape so we're just we're going to give you we have using simple materials is what we do at home. So if you all would select this. So if y'all would select one of the skills below and use the materials to create an activity for a three year old to learn physical coordination I had coordination following directions in groups develop a simple activity and prepare to demonstrate it ten minutes ten minutes to develop each group will have three minutes to demonstrate. So si pueden seleccionar uno de los de las distras abajo y usando las los materiales que le hemos dado si pueden hacer una actividad que un niño de tres años pudiera aprender con el coordinación física coordinación entre ojo a mano o seguir instrucciones en grupo si se pueden desarrollar una actividad simple para demostrar y les vamos a dar un poquito de diez minutos para que puedan dimos de mostrar algo y luego nosotros le vamos a enseñar lo que nosotros hacemos para las actividades. Is there working. We're going to just kind of go over what we do as far as a book walk with their families and we do offer it's a 30 week curriculum. With about eight books. Throughout 30 weeks and we do give you supplies as well. So durante nuestro programa le damos 30 semanas les damos el curriculum también las cosas para que puedan hacer las actividades y. Ocho libros durante los 30 semanas questions please we have some of our home educators that are walking around if you have any questions or if you need any activities. So tenemos diferentes personas caminando si necesitan ayuda. But to me again the activities that you have at your tables are samples of what these home educators go in and sit down with the parents to role play with the parents. So when we know that all parents want what's best for their kiddos and want their child to succeed we role play with that parent to show them the activities that they're going to do with their child every day that week. So you've got those activities that you are doing on your own. But in the hippie setting the actual home visitor would come in and role play with you as the parent to show you how to complete that activity with your child and the skills that your child will learn with those activities. So continue. He said Terry is kick out. Las actividades que ustedes están desarrollando son parte de la instrucción que los en los instructores dan a los padres no lo hacen solos pero utilizan los materiales del hogar y les dan una actividad que desarrollan y después van a jugar con él antes que lleguen al hogar. We're going to give you all about one more minute. Nuestra semana lo que hacemos es un desarrollo de rol y ese para nosotros de educadores es el lunes y tomamos como tres horas para entrenar entrenar y nosotros hacemos las actividades que vamos a enseñar les a los padres. So our training is we role play with each other so we can actually see how the parents would answer and practice on each other. So that way when we do do it with the parents we kind of have that experience of the wrong answers and we really do focus on not telling our children no that's really a hippie we try for hippie is not saying no just letting them know OK that wasn't the right answer but we confirm correct and complete so confirmamos las respuestas que con los niños no decimos dis tratamos de decir no tratamos de no decir no a los niños cuando no nos dan la respuesta correcta tratamos de decirles a confirmar el la respuesta corregir y completar so si tenemos algunos algún grupo que nos quiere enseñar o decir que hicieron do we have any groups that would like to kind of explain what they did OK so this is our hand I coordination this is a rocket es un cuete so los niños pueden volar como un cuete pueden dar así hacer como que son ellos parte de de su ambiente pueden pasar por los pasillos por su casa encontrando nuevas cosas ver a ver que hay de nuevo solo que es un cuete so they can do the hand I coordination by going to different things shooting around their house or their classrooms right it's at home so or so that they are able to explore new things. El cuete. I don't know if y'all can see me OK there's ours our box and this is for us to teach the kids right left front and back we tell them getting the right sign of the car and then we'll pull them but then we can't leave the car unless they get into the right front or the back as we tell them to and it's teaching them their directions. The right in front and at last so they're not seeing the common car so no they're going to enter or you're not allowed. Como ellos dicen para que los niños puedan jugar como un carro. But we just did a little rocket lounge we hide the knife so they wouldn't get it and we could you know they could use it as an I coordination you know aim for the box para hacer actividad para que pudieran hacerlo adentro de la caja de los tiqueras. They didn't give us scissors. OK. Lo que lo que tratamos de hacer en nuestro grupo es. I'm sorry I'm sorry lo que tratamos de hacer en nuestro grupo es un libro este sabemos que es tres años pero le podemos enseñar a la mamá y a los niños lo que literatura ir a la biblioteca entonces en el grupo de nosotros este quisimos e empezar a identificar las la vez el abecedario pero con el nombre de la del niño la niña en este caso la niña este que representaba nuestra mesa se anorma entonces cada nuestros niños hicieron el el dibujo de norma con su nombre para poder empezar a identificar su nombre y su abecedario. Entonces este empezamos con la n verdad y luego dibujaron una niña y luego este la o un oso porque la letra o y luego este la r una rosa una foto una rosa y luego la m una mesa y luego a un a un árbol de esa manera el el niño de la niña empieza a identificar su nombre y este y también identificar el abecedario entonces intentamos este hacer agujeritos para usar el hilo para que usen sus este de los their final motor skills pero eso fue soy soy en ingles or what ok but our group we tried to do was for our three-year-old to be able to identify early literacy ok so one of the things with the child and the mother was to not to create a little book and to give him you know to engage him with going to the library and identifying books how to handle books and how to create books so we tried to you know by using the final motor skills normally you know we would you know hole punch it or something and then get the yarn and then use have the child user their fingers to use to utilize their final motor skills and kind of you know thread through the holes in order to bind the book so what we did is have our three-year-old do her name identify her name normal and and do a little picture and the reason why we didn't start with it well we decided not to start with the alphabet was if we identify with you know the self the child the name because that's what they're going to learn that you know the first so they're going to start identifying their name and then identifying the name with the alphabet so then we had another one of the persons do the letter and and they did they drew a little girl Nina in Spanish we decided to go to Spanish and then for the oh we decided to do a bear for also in Spanish in the case you know with the oh you can do an ox or I don't know another another picture and then for the letter R we decided to write a row draw a rose so the child can be identifying the letter with a picture and then for the M a table for Spanish and then the letter A with a tree in this for Spanish at this way the child the three-year-old can start identifying her name with the alphabet with the letters and more than anything you know for the mother and child you know to introduce early literacy shoot a basket shoot a ball into the basket. So what they did was to use the box as a box as a basket for basketball and what they did was to throw the ball into the box as a basketball. Thank you. You all had amazing ideas and with a box paper tape I know we didn't give you a lot of supplies but again that's what we do with our families we try to do amazing things which you all did with the minimal as far as supplies needed that you don't have to go out and buy them you don't have to feel like oh I need to go buy a new bar I need to go do something to wear they need a new toy or something these are amazing toys that with just a box string and paper. That's really what we do with hippie lo que hacemos es tratamos de a usar lo que tenemos alrededor de la casa para nuestras familias para que no tengan que sentir que tienen que ir a comprar diferentes materiales que como una pelota nueva o un juguete nuevo que le puede que pueden aprender con cosas mínimas que tenemos en la casa so what we're actually going to do next is I know it's kind of show you what we do with hippie we're going to role play I know it's going to be a little bit hard for you all to see but we're going to do what we would do with with our families first we're going to just do a book walk real quick and that's kind of what we do at the beginning of each new book when we present them to our families. So lo que vamos a ser es enseñar una un camino para ayudar la literatura para los niños que es un. I can't say book walk in Spanish book walk pasar por el libro como nosotros le enseñamos a nuestras familias yo sé que no van a poder ver todo pero vamos a tratar de usar lo que podemos every time we introduce a new book we always tell the parents you know it's great to do a book walk you know we like to teach the children you know how to take care of their book so the first thing we do is when we introduce a new book to the parents we say this is we're going to introduce you where spot the author is Eric hill this is the front of the book this is the spine the top the bottom the pages and the back of the book so every time we give them a new book which is anywhere anywhere between 3 to 5 weeks they get a new book so when we start off our role play with them that's the first thing we do the book walk even though we know they do it every time they read a book that's just one of our big things you know teaching children you know to care for books you know to try to place them in a safe place when they're done with them. Cuando enseñamos a nuestras familias les enseñamos como hacer el el retraso del libro. So es el título es donde está spot y este es el frente del libro el autor es Eric hill este es la espina y esto es lo de atrás del libro la de arriba lo de abajo y las páginas. So lo que hacemos es enseñarles a nuestras familias que esto es una buena manera para enseñarle a los niños un hacerles entender que si hay que cuidar nuestros libros y también que hay diferentes partes de nuestro libros y también hacemos muchas cosas que ellos normalmente lo hacen toda durante todo el currículo del son de tres tres a cinco semanas les damos un ni les damos un libro nuevo pero también es ellos lo hacen yo sé que los niños les gusta mucho hacerlo enseñarles a sus padres que mira yo ya sé lo que es lo de enfrente del libro lo de atrás del libro lo de arriba y lo de abajo y la espina cuando miras eso es algo muy maravilloso y luego we're gonna vamos a hacer una actividad con no se que no muchos usaron el cordón como para ponerse la caja cosas así nosotros lo que hacemos es lo enseñamos con los con la coordinación física hacemos un desarrollo donde brincamos arriba de marchamos alrededor de un círculo caminamos de espacio combinamos resio so es eso es lo que nosotros usamos para el cordón cuando hacemos nuestra actividad so with yarn what we do we make a circle and we show the kids inside outside we march around the circle also walking fast walking slow or even walking with like a rhythm walk slow take tiny steps walk fast walk normal inside the circle inside the circle one foot inside the circle and then other foot inside the circle then outside the circle and that's basically what we use the yarn for and then using simple materials paper make balls rolling catching throwing following directions paper footsteps big and little following directions and then again the yarn large motor jumping on either side of the yarn or line inside and outside of the circle big steps little steps igual usamos los materiales sencillos como hacer una lo que nosotros hacemos con el papel y el tape o también con el cordón hacemos pelotas para que así no tienen que ir a comprar las pelotas para los niños lo hacen los pescan los tiran so I can and coordinate también hacemos con los papeles hacemos pasos donde ellos pueden hacer pasos grandes pasos pequeños y también eso les ayuda a seguir dirección sos tan están siguiendo a los padres con las direcciones y se están apoyando y luego la cosa con nosotros también lo que hacemos es tratamos de dejar que los niños nos digan que hagamos sos y ellos quieren hacer pasos grandes nosotros los hacemos los pasos grandes sos tan tomamos turnos con los niños para que puedan ellos sentirse que nosotros les estamos poniendo esas tensiones nosotros les estamos siguiendo su dirección so what we do is we also do we take turns with our children so we let them be the leaders to get that confidence in knowing that you know my mom's listening to me what I want to do so if she wants to do big steps will follow will do the big steps if they want to do little steps will do little steps so we do try to take turns and show that our children that you know they can be leaders we can follow them and it's really something to good for them to build that confidence for when they do start school. Los pasitos. So she's actually one of my clients. She was she actually did do the activity with the big steps and little steps and she used the colored paper. So she says not only do they learn colors but they learn the big steps the little steps they learn to follow and she's like I would have known if she would have brought her steps. But we actually we had an activity as far as the curriculum I'm just going to kind of show you what our curriculum looks like this is what we do it's actually very structured and we the bold print is actually what we say as parents and instructors the lighter print is for the children to respond. So look at that. This is our curriculum in an example. Look at that it's a mass school. Look at all look at the same old center Los Padres and Los Educadores. And look at Thomas Clarito is don't know it's not a response to the Los Ninos. And then the parentheses again it's something that they work on as far as what we read silently. Look at time parentheses look at semos is. It's all of them on the end all in the end of the end of the end of the end of. Orally see. So I was trying to do it. It was the most important but I can put on. Do you guys have any questions. Yes we do English and Spanish. So we have we have educators that are in English and Spanish. We have with our location we have two Spanish educators. Let's talk about the La Pregunta Era si teníamos el currículum en inglés y en español y si lo ofrecemos en inglés en español ahorita tenemos dos educadores de casa que hablan español y los otros. Tres. Cuatro hablan inglés los dos de idiomas los seis de dos cinco de nosotros. And then a few of us home educators we do have a Spanish speaking parents so what we do is we role play with them in English and we give them the Spanish curriculum. El la pregunta the question was up to what age do we have our curriculum our program. So el tenemos de tres cuatro y cinco años. So comenzamos a los tres y luego siguen. Mientras que ellos completen el año sigamos y luego el tercer año es donde se graduan y nos miramos cada otra semana. So we have our ages. It's from three four and five. We actually are at the Madonna Center and we have the information you can contact either of us. You can actually go on our website or the question was how they could get services if any of you or your families would like services with us. So what we would do is they would contact them contact the Madonna Center or you could even go on hippie USA and contact us through there. So la pregunta fue que cómo podían recibir nuestros servicios tenemos el nos pueden se pueden ir por nuestra red en Madonna Center o también pueden ir por la página de web de hippie USA. They didn't even need the translation. They do a great job. Now the program hippie has been around for a long time. It is very much a research based program. The three four and five year olds who participate in the program not only are more than ready to get into anything in a school setting. But you find them being very interactive with their families. The parents of the children who are participating in hippie also have a big advantage in that they now know that they are their children's first and most important teachers but can work with the classroom teacher in everything that they're learning in a classroom setting. So consequently and then as you saw our parent teachers or parent educators go on to become the leaders in their respective campuses as their children are going through their their educational setting. So not only are we pleased that this program is all over the country but that we have it here in San Antonio. And also that we would like a lot more families participating in this because it is a very worthwhile very enriching program. And I want you to notice one thing when they were doing the role playing that she never said no when the child didn't know how to get inside the circle the teacher the mother gave more instruction but never said no. That is one of the premises of hippie that we definitely promote the positive. We always look at everything that the child brings rather than what the child doesn't have because that's why they go to school. That's why they are they are in your home setting to learn something new. So thank you so very much. We have a very very very small gift for both of our presenters and Miss Terry as well. Thank you. That's from my DRA. And then if if you want more information you have it in your packet there was a handout that was given to you as well. I think if you get the information I'm much information. But here's time. That's expert. Los expertos aquí pueden utilizar los aeos también master aquí todo el día. So we thank you very much but before you go there is an evaluation that I handed out earlier. It's a brown sheet round that is quite cool. Yeah. And you say quite cool only. Would you please help us find out more about what you thought about this presentation. If you've got some ideas for making it bigger different et cetera. Thank you. As soon as you finish your your evaluations will I will be at the door collecting them. Thank you again. Yes. OK. OK. So we're here with Maria Amaya who is a participant in today's event. Tell me where you came from and tell me what this what you're here to find out. In Espanol. OK. Estoy aquí porque las muchachas del grupo de padres de la escuela bauden este me escogieron a me para que viniera a agarrar información y se las pudiera transmitir a ellas. Is this the first time you come. Si la primera. How did you find out about it. Pues a todos los todos lo que venga de aprendizaje a mi me gusta aprender todo lo que pueda aprender para mi vida para darles una mejor calidad de vida a mis hijos. Oh very very good. Muy muy muy bueno muy bueno. Si son de aquí de San Antonio San Antonio Texas soy de la representante de la escuela bauden bauden academies Yes. Well thank you very much. I really appreciate you taking the time. Thank you. Gracias gracias a ustedes por tan buena información que train. Please and the name of your organization. Claudia Sanchez and with Texas Victory Project. What is the nature of your project. So we are going organization that's based out of South Texas so San Antonio down to the border we're focusing on empowering our community to vote not only about just voting by talking about the issues and building leadership in our communities getting them to be engaged educated and empowered to be active on the issues directly impacting our communities especially working class communities and for them to be active and engaged in voting holding our elected officials accountable. Excellent. So you just made a presentation. What was the title of the presentation and what was it about. So it was DACA our communities and ownership of our communities and what does DACA stand for. So DACA is for deferred action for childhood or rivals. And that's what we're talking about just making sure that our students that are under the dreamers that are under the status of DACA that they're able to continue with their education especially right now with a lot of the issues that we're seeing in our courts and especially with our president current president we're signing you know DACA making sure that our students are still being active and getting the information they need to continue with their education to continue applying for DACA and down the road and then making sure that they get the resources and the support system they need to be successful. What kind of support should the community give to these students. So I was telling our people in our workshop that we need to get our parents and our students involved letting them know all the information they need to know to be empowered to be continuing with their education. So if they need to look at scholarships or any type of services how to apply for DACA where to apply how to do the whole process that they know how that they do it ahead of time and that once they you know that they do that they know in case they remove it what they can do to continue with their education with services and locations that they can go to to get those services to be continuing with their efforts and their parents also how to be engaged and educated and active in the school system and the political process and even if they can't vote that they can still be active and they can still encourage others that can vote to go out and vote and to register and to block walk phone bank to make sure that they're engaged on those issues and that they're being vocal and progressive and also on the defensive and so just you know getting people to be engaged on those issues. What are the benefits of the community at large of supporting DACA students and their families. And so basically it's our you know it impacts as I was telling the people at the workshop it impacts all of us regardless of your legal status or not because we have people in our community that have family members that have friends that have neighbors that you know might benefit from those services. And so it you know it hurts our community as a whole when we have people that are being you know abused or that are being you know are not having the same opportunities that as everyone else as a community it hurts us one way or the other even though we might not directly be impacted by the issue but as a community you know so it's important that they get active also even if they're not directly themselves impacted but they have friends and family that might be and that's why we need everyone to be active and informed about the issues. So in your project what are your personal responsibilities what is it you have to do in your project. And so with us it's like I said from from San Antonio down to the border south Texas making sure that our communities are being more engaged in voting that they know the information so getting that information to them through town halls that they get the information sometimes even at their door by block walking phone banking and then also making sure that they go out to vote like reminding them like you need to go vote we have our elections coming up to these are the dates you need to go vote don't forget don't forget you know just like reminding them because we're all busy we have work we have responsibilities with family you know different issues that we have going on so we need to make sure that they go out to vote and then also having people know what's happening in our communities whether it's an immigration such as DACA or if it's health care education or criminal justice system they need to know what's happening in our communities the reality not just what they see on the news but then also taking ownership of those issues and not waiting for elected officials to do it for us because a lot of times they don't and it's across the board it's not just one party or the other they're not doing that for us and so making sure that we're holding them accountable and that if they're not doing it then we can put somebody else in their spot to make sure that they're advocating and looking out on our best interest and also listening to us because a lot of times they don't even want to listen to our communities and so that's kind of what you know Texas Victory Project is doing and also we want to mobilize people when we have an issue at the state at the national level we're working mostly state south Texas but also you know eventually long term if we can mobilize people for the national level that's one of our long term goals because they know what's happening they know the reality and that when it comes time to taking action that we do that regardless of the issue not just DACA not just health care not just immigration but across the board because I said if you're working class community or you know impacted by these issues it doesn't matter if you're Latino if you're African-American it doesn't matter you're across the board you're impacted and it impacts our community and the future of our state the future of our nation thank you Claudia Sanchez with the Texas Victory Project thanks for being here your names please Mercedes Bristol and the organization you represent is San Antonio grandparents raising grandchildren and what is grandparents raising grandchildren about it's about an advocacy program that we advocate for the grandparents that are taking care of their grandchildren that get placed by either by CPS or by the parents that are not able to take care of the children so we advocate for grandparents to know their rights to know what how they can actually step up and get help to be able to complete that task that they've been given and how did your organization start well it started by learning that we needed to do something we needed to step up and there's nobody bringing the things that grandparents need to them and saying legislators are saying hey here it is you know this is what grandparents need so we needed to go out there and start doing something so the first thing was to go to judge Peter Sakai and take care of the legal part which we have with him and we have a legal task force that we take grandparents to meet with the with the lawyers and discuss whatever legal issues they have we also work with the senators and state representatives on going to Austin and testifying on bills or helping write bills that are going to help the grandparents financially or if there's a bill that has restrictions and grandparents can can qualify for those things and let's take those restrictions down and help them really qualify for these things how many support groups do you have and what do they do we started with one and now we were up to seven support groups throughout San Antonio and the outskirts of Bear County we're going to have to go to the next session what was your presentation was about what it was about educating the community of the grandparents that are in the school system that are not identified and how these children fall between the cracks and not get identified for their misbehavior or things that they're going through and they don't get the help that they need and so by identifying the need that they have in schools then we can empower those children to be successful thank you very much thank you both and good luck to grandparents raising grandchildren. No copies. We have no copies we have to just look at the screen. And we have to. Are we ready to rock and roll here. Good morning everyone hi. So I'm Becky Barrera and this is my colleague Mary Gutierrez and we're here representing the National Latino Children's Institute and we're going to talk about El Dia de los Niños celebrating young American the most fun celebration you can imagine it's better than any political holiday it's better than any historical holiday. It's just a wonderful opportunity and so today we'd like to talk about let's look at our slides we're going to talk about the goals of having this celebration in your community and we're going to talk about why we should celebrate and and what's the meaning behind it what's the purpose and and then we're going to talk about how to celebrate you know Becky said that there's not politics there's not history yeah there is all of that different kind of politics the history the culture but it's going to be led by children so that's going to be the beauty of it and then we're going to talk about how we're going to organize this to make it work okay. So look at this wonderful picture that's what it looks like in action. So the first the other Los Niños happened in San Antonio and it was born from a request by the young people who attended a national summit on young Latinos they really complained about hey there's a mother's day and a father's day how come there's nothing for kids nobody pays attention to us you have your birthday oh yeah but but still that's not the same thing I want a real day like everybody else's day that's what the kids told us and so from that was born this idea of creating the the the other Los Niños because we heard that in Mexico on April 30th it's a kids day it's called el día del niño any of you out there familiar with that right I knew you would be so we wanted to make sure we had something like that in the US not just because we wanted a day to celebrate but mostly because the young people said that they needed a way to get their words out their creative voice for them let them participate in the in their future and and will somebody please listen to what is their future life and what their dreams and wishes are and so we began in 1998 here in San Antonio Texas led by the San Antonio Youth Commission a group of young energetic high school kids and they took it to city council and it was passed as a resolution and it became the first city in the United States but at least five or six cities came to observe and the next year we had 15 cities rock and rolling and now there's way over a hundred so it was exciting it started here and since then also the United States Senate has passed a resolution declaring el día de los niños celebrating young Americans as a national commemorative holiday it's not a holiday where you get the day off from work but it's a pretty good holiday otherwise and these are some of the ways in which many of the city celebrate you can find in small towns like in Donna Texas and in the Rio Grande Valley you might find a small avance program that has a day de los niños or you might be in Chicago where there's ten thousand children marching in a parade and having an all day festival and in Puerto Rico the bells ring at ten in the morning saying it's the day for the children. But everywhere you go you'll notice that in where is it in Chicago el día de los niños that has been translated into 14 language so there's diversity languages there's diversity throughout the country so it's just it was originally designed as el día de los niños por latinos but now all children have become involved so that they're finding out about this a diverse nation that they live in this world that they live in and how they can be a part of it and how they can participate and how their voice can be heard through a vehicle such as this. Right so there's a lot of ways to get involved right now you're taking the first step because you're learning how you can create this day in your community. It could be your church it could be your school it might be a women's club or a car club or any group can say we want to have el día de los niños celebrating young Americans. In fact the library association called reforma of the Hispanic librarians have started it in libraries all over the country and they call it el día del niño el día de los libros. So it's very very cool. And so one of the ways that you become an official city is you have to tell us that you want to be on the list then you have access to all of our resources to our logos our information and that's why we want you to sign up and become part of the real thing. And us just so that you will know is the National Latino Children's Institute and this is the website for the National Latino Children's Institute. It's an LCI dot org and to get to the exact page you want you do a forward slash initiatives forward slash el día de los niños and it will click right into it'll take you right into that. But if you just go to the front first page of the website that will be great because then you can explore all of the things that are part of the National Latino Children's Institute. We are the Stuart organization and we support and move this holiday forward throughout the country. And we are the ones who have organized the the 19 years of passing the U.S. Senate resolution. So it's a great it's a great honor to be part of that. Well why on earth should we be doing this. Let's think about that just a minute. What's so important about a kids day. Why do we want to do this. Well this is a tough time for kids in the U.S. If your last name is Garcia or Barrera like mine or Longoria Gutierrez like yours there's not a lot of understanding of the role of immigrant families of our culture of our language differences. And so when you have a day like this where you can uplift children and make them feel proud of their culture and their background. It's a marvelous wonderful thing. It really reinforces their cultural heritage and their sense of I can. I remember reading a report about children who were in the 9 11 tragedy in New York City and following that event they did a study of children who were resilient and bounced back right right away. And they found that almost every one of those children had a really good sense of who they were who their family was what their heritage was and they saw themselves as part of this. If my grandfather can do it I can survive anything. And they were able to bounce right back and get back into school and do very, very well. And we believe that that's the case across the country for many, many things that when our children have a sense of themselves and their roots and their heritage they are stronger and more capable and more successful. There's another reason we celebrate this holiday. And it's because we want to look at what's going on in our community. We want to look at the issues that our young people face every day. And when you have a day like this you can draw attention to children. You can have press events. You can have power breakfast. You can do many things that will draw the public's attention to what's going on with kids. And we're going to show you some of those examples in just a minute. And what that does is it gives the children the opportunity to become the leaders. They see how they can become involved. They see how they can have their voices heard. How they can participate in the government process within the city. How they can work with sponsors to get different things that they need. They become the leaders. Look at the kids in Parkland in Florida. Those leaders are here in San Antonio. They are all over the country. What we have to do is give them a vehicle so that their voices can be heard. And this is a really good way to start it. So youth leaders. So there it is, the youth leaders. We want to give them their day. You see these two young people are at the Capitol in Austin and they're talking to their representatives. And they're saying, today's our day and you give us this little proclamation. But what else are you going to do? Are you going to pay attention to our education? Are you going to pay attention to our opportunities for a future workforce? How do you feel about us in our schools? How come my school doesn't have air conditioning? Or I don't have advanced computer laboratories like rich schools. There's many ways in which young people take the lead and take charge. And we pay attention to them on this day because it's their day. They also do fun stuff like they lead the parade and they sometimes help the little kids who are at the festivals or at the events where they're participating. OK, how do we celebrate? Lots of opportunities to celebrate. Becky mentioned in Donna Texas. You can see on the slide over here. There's H-E-B group of kids over here. Those are the kids from Donna. The ones on the other side, where were they from? Springfield, Illinois. Illinois. So the celebrations go on all over the country. Over 100 cities all over. Almost 200 cities all over the country. And the ways that they celebrate vary. But they all start the same way. A group of people get together and say, let's do something special for our kids. Let's do something to celebrate our kids. This creates a work group. This work group then says, oh, but I don't know. How are we going to get the money? I don't know. What are we going to do? They have to think about what they're going to do. But when you get a group together, before you know it, this friend right here happens to know the guy that works at H-E-B that can get us some food. This lady over here, she knows somebody at Walmart. And that person can get us some drinks. Maybe we can do a 5K. We're going to need water for that. Or this girl over here, she happens to know the wife of the mayor. Maybe she can get the mayor to come down and be the person that does it. And before you know it, you've got a work group that is really, really rocket and rolling. So get those and start by holding meetings together. Those meetings, then, are going to take you to all the other. We're going to go through several more steps. But this work group is the first one. From there, you develop all the committees that you're going to need for everything else. And these work groups, as they begin to work on issues for children and on the celebration, they begin to realize what's going on in the community. They begin talking to young people because the young people are involved. And they learn that getting a summer job is really tough, or that there is a difficulty with transportation, or that there's an unsafe part where you used to be able to go and play after school and you had a ball game going, and now it's full of needles and drug paraphernalia. And you're like, why is my neighborhood not safe anymore? And until these work groups start talking about it among themselves, nothing gets done. But once they have a bond and they've worked together, they can take on any kind of problem. They can talk to their school board. They can go to city council. They can go many directions. It just depends on their energy and their enthusiasm and their willingness to get involved and get their hands a little dirty and sometimes take a little heat. OK, so let's think about April 30th. Hello. There we go. First thing you want to do is generate some resolutions. This work group is going to come out with a lot of different things that they want to talk to. But we can do resolutions in a very personal way. I can say, OK, you know what? For two hours while I'm making dinner and we're having dinner, I'm not going to look at my phone. Forget Facebook. Forget everything else. I'm going to pay attention to my kids. That's my personal one, OK? There may be, at your school, they'll pass a resolution that says we're going to support the day of the child and we're going to do this. Maybe there are organizations, free KSA, you know, organizations that work with children in your community. City, state, national, take it as big as you want. But if you upload your resolutions to the NCLI website, then we will provide them with a mailing list so you can get all of these. OK? And as you collect resolutions from the people in your schools and in your organizations, now you have your own mailing list of people you can bring into your circle and have them work with you on library improvements, street issues, safety, whatever it is that is important to you when it's not the one day that you're celebrating the children. How many of you have made the milagros that are outside at the Milagros table? Did you make a milagro? Go make a milagro before you leave, OK? The milagros tend to be a very important part of anything that you do because the milagros represent the hopes, the wishes, the dreams of the children. If I can put together in a few words on a piece of paper and decorate it, you know, we think of milagros like I hope the broken harm gets better and I hope that the toe doesn't hurt anymore and my back doesn't hurt. Yeah, OK, you see those in churches all the time. But these are little milagros. We're calling them milagros. They're the wishes, the dreams, the hopes of the children of the future. And what do they want? When you start reading the dreams of the children, yeah, they dream about having better grades. They dream they hope that their sister doesn't fight with them so much. But they also put down things like I hope my mother can come back soon. She was deported. I hope my dad would quit drinking so much. I hope that my Thea doesn't come over here anymore because her husband hit her. They break your heart when you see some of these things. There was one that we heard just this morning, a 14-year-old girl. I have a friend who has quit school because she's transgender and she's afraid to go back because she's getting bullied. And all of a sudden, these voices are heard. You start reading these milagros, these things that the children wish for. And you think, OK, there are issues in this community. There are things that we need to deal with. So those issues come up. Maybe then we turn around and say, OK, business is in town. We need to have a roundtable to discuss some of these things. Maybe we have a power breakfast with all of the community leaders, the city leaders, the county leaders, our state representatives. Bring them to the table and say, hey, you know what? This is what our kids are saying. These are things that we need to address. They're important for the future of this community. They're going to say something. So have a press event. It's fun. All the festival, the parade, the book giveaways, all those. They're all fun. But there's some seriousness to this as well. And before you leave that, I wanted to show you. All of you have this handout in your package. And it shows you how to do the milagros display at your school or your library or your church. And these have been made all over the country and collected. And then we hope to have many, many in San Antonio and display them at City Hall after El Dia de los Niños Festival. I think it will be really eye opening for our elected officials to recognize some of the things that our children are saying about their wishes and dreams for the future. So who else? How are you going to put this event on or this press briefing or this power event? We did it this morning by making a partnership with Intercultural Development Research Association. And that's what you will do. You will build partnerships in your community. You might go to the mall that's nearest your school or to the library or to the church group or any nonprofit that's there. Bring them in, recruit them, ask them to take part in solving the problems in creating public awareness and in creating events where these issues can come forward to the table as well as creating events to have a lot of fun so that children become primary in your community. So we need to count on business leaders because they have sponsorships. If you look down here, we've got H.E.B. gave us this gigantic cake that's as big as two of these tables. We gave 1,000 children a piece of cake. And on the right you see the Greater San Antonio McDonald's Owners Association. And they sponsored the very first Dia de los Niños and several years after that as well. So look for your partners in the community who can help you. And remember, your partners can be elected officials. They can be business sponsors who have a reason to get involved with you. Because for example, if you want to have field games, why don't you go to a sports store and have them give you all the equipment and have their employees wear their work shirts and put on the event? It really, it works beautifully. Very important part of any festival or any event that you put on, because everything to the families and the children who attend is free. Therefore, your volunteers are essential. You've got to have people that you can count on to run all of the booths, all of the activities, to clean up, to carry water, to do everything that you need done. But you need volunteers. They can be volunteers from organizations or businesses that you're working with. They can be volunteers from your work group, people that you know from the schools, from the library, from wherever you can find them. You need to get the, we've got how many, 30 something from the Junior League of San Antonio, come into the San Antonio one. You get college students that need community service hours to do their community service hours. Interns who are working at certain businesses, they have to do community service hours. So give them the opportunity and you take advantage of it and then say thank you at the end. Right. So getting the sponsors is sometimes tricky. People are like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how to ask them. Yeah, I don't know if I can ask them. But a sponsor, you have to offer them something that makes them want to do it. So let's say, so you go to them and you say, I want to offer you an opportunity for 1,000 children to wear your logo on a baseball cap or on a sticker if you will come and be the sponsor of this event. And you know what? It's very hard for businesses to say no to children. They might say no to other groups, but to children, they want to be involved because they know the parents will be coming. They also know that families that have children spend more money than families that do not have children because you're busy buying more toilet paper, more food, more supplies, things for the home. And so they want to participate. So these are just some ideas and ways that you can get others to help you. They can give you real cash because there are some hard expenses. You might have to pay for insurance for your event or pay for a sound system or renting tents or something like that. But never say no to anything in kind. If they're going to give you 1,000 bottles of water, take it. Don't worry about getting cash. Get the water. And then we always think of how we're going to honor and recognize all of these people who have helped. So don't forget that part. There's you, Ronald McDonald. No, the media plan. You know, it used to be that you had to tell the radio. You had to tell the TV. You had to tell the newspaper. That's still important. However, if you know somebody or if you are good at social media, that's the way to get the word out. Put it on Facebook. Put it on Twitter. Put it on Instagram. If you know somebody that does that or if that's popular in your circle, get the word out any way you can. We have one group that is wanting to do a Facebook page. Every week, they wanted an update on what the committees are doing and what is happening and how we're planning and all that kind. Whatever works for you, get the word out to as many places as you can. Posters, flyers, the corporations can do stuff. One year H-E-B, you have that. One year H-E-B put together. You know how they have the combo meals? They did a special thing. Well, here's the ad for the grocery store. How to set your table. On the back, there's the whole Dia de los Niños and they put this in every newspaper across the state of Texas. So there's things that they wanna sell, right? But they're also promoting El Dia del Niño or Dia de los Niños depending on where you are. It's in Mexico, El Dia del Niño is also sponsored by H-E-B. So this is a great opportunity and a way for companies to get involved. But get the word out. Get the word out. Any way you can. Get the word out. Okay, April 30th, what do we do? How do we do this? First, we have to think about things to think about. Now, we're not gonna go over all of this. This is in your handout or you can download it off the website. And we're gonna make this into a checklist because you're gonna really have to check off every single one of these when you start putting things together. Because you have to think about parking. If kids are gonna come in school buses, if they're coming from schools the first time we did this here in San Antonio, we thought, oh my God, it's 10 minutes till 10 and nobody is here yet. And then we were supposed to start at 10 o'clock and it was just all our workers and stuff and where are all the, where's the school buses and where's the, and then before we looked up and here comes the big yellow school buses around the corner. Over 600 kids showed up in those school buses alone. And so it was fabulous. But where do we park them? Where do we, do we make a place for them to change the diapers? It's gonna be somewhere safe and clean. Because you can assume that if a parent has little ones that are preschool or first, second, third grade they probably have babies also and so you need to have things like that. You know, one of the things, looking at the top we create worksheets for every task that needs to be done and we also, we make a list of all the little jobs that have to be done and then who's gonna do it and then by what date you want to do it. These worksheets will all be online and you'll be able to download them in the next few days. Once this whole event is over we'll make sure everything gets uploaded and you'll be able to have them available to you. But the third item, school day or weekend is important for you to consider because we have run them on both times. If it's a school day, it's a great field trip but you have to make it educational. You have to add a small curriculum for the teachers so that they know what they're working on with kids and it's got some substance to it. You can't just come to a party. It's gotta be some educational substance behind this event and if it's on a Saturday you can count on it being families that come as a group rather than teachers and chaperones. So when families come you have to have activities for many ages of people from infants to high school. So that's really important. So as you look at each one of these things talk about it among your group and think about all the things that you have to do to make each one of these things happen. Why do you need a water station? Cause you get thirsty and people don't always carry water bottles. You need to have a place for recycling all those bottles once somebody drinks them. These are all very important things and you can download the tip sheets from nlci.org. Okay, let's look at a couple of these up close. Say we're planning a children's parade. What are the things we have to think about? Well, where does it start? Where does it end? Okay, if it's just gonna be from the school to the playground, from the front of the school around to the back to the playground, that's one thing. But if I'm gonna go from the church to the park down the street like we're doing here, the church to the Blasa Guadalupe, do we have to close the street? What does that mean? Do I have to get permits? Do I have to get police? Do I have to, you know, all of a sudden this little park, I mean, this little parade gets really bigger. What's the theme? Are we gonna restrict the ages? We're gonna let everybody ride in this thing. Can they come on skates, on skateboards and bicycles? Do they have to walk? Can they bring strollers? So all of a sudden all of these things is it gonna be music? Are they gonna be banners? Are they gonna be flags? Are they gonna be waving sticks with ribbons? You know, all of these things start coming up on what you're gonna do. So each of the activities, you're going to find tip sheets that you can download that are going to have all of this background information. Opening ceremony. So the opening ceremony is the most magical part of the festival, I believe. It starts normally with the children coming down the street in a parade, having a banner and carrying streamers and whatever, and it's usually like a block long. They just go from the entrance to the stage area. Once you reach the stage, you'll have people there to greet them. One year we had a rabbi, an imam, and a priest do a welcome and a blessing for the children. It was so moving because they talked about the great opportunities for each child and the future. And it was spiritual, it was not religious, it was spiritual, and it was a very nice way to begin the day of festival. And blessing everyone to have a good time, to be safe, and to enjoy their day. So then from that, you go to the reading of the proclamation or the resolution that comes from your city, your state, or you can read the one from the federal government because we have passed resolutions at the federal level for 19 years already. The U.S. Senate has declared the Adelos Niños celebrating young Americans as an American commemorative holiday. So that's really, really exciting when you have a congressman or a senator read your proclamation. Then we always have entertainment. This is an image of José Luis Orozco with children here in San Antonio at Mission San José. And they're having the most wonderful time because that's part of a festival, is the entertainment. But it's not like a rock band, it's children's entertainment because that's what we're looking for in a day like this. So then you have to consider that you might wanna have a piñata, how you're gonna set up your stage, what kind of sound system you want, how you're gonna decorate. And even if you have a stage manager who's going to tell everybody it's your Bale Folklorico's turn to get on, get the next group ready. We need the mariachis here in five minutes. These are all things that are part of organizing and planning an event. Okay, let's talk about some specific children's activities. What are some of the things that the children can become involved in specifically? You saw the Milagros. We've talked about how important the Milagros are. Collect all of those things and find out what the issues are for your community. And keep that in mind as you're going along. And by the way, go back a little bit. How you display the Milagros is really important because you want it to be safe and you don't want it to fall over. In this case, we use commercial store grids and we link them together, we screwed them together. And they're four little towers with bars that go across holding them in place. And the reason this is really solid is because they're very durable and we use them year after year after year. But you can also build a tower out of PVC pipe or many other things. Whatever you decide to use as a display for your Milagros make sure that it's secure and won't fall over because we have seen that happen at some events. After 20 years, we've learned all the tricks. So we use ribbons usually to decorate and we use smaller, tiny little curling ribbon to tie the Milagros onto the... When you make your Milagro outside, you're gonna see how it's done, yes. We also always love to have a literacy tent. Now, we call this el encanto del cuento. Now here you want to, how many of you are teachers? No? Okay. All right, but it's important for children to go through the phases of literacy. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing. And at the literacy tent, they're going to be listening to storytellers telling stories. They're going to be listening to people reading books to them and stories to them. They're going to be able to go to the oral history section. This is really exciting because here they're gonna become interviewers. The children will become the interviewers to work with whoever they're going to interview, the interviewee. Are you gonna interview me? And I'm going to interview my mom, okay? And you're gonna use your phone. And I'm gonna use my phone and I'm gonna say, mom, how did you and daddy meet? Oh, I had never thought about that. Why do you want to know? And then the story's... Then why did you decide to get married? Because we loved each other. And then when was I born? No. No, but the stories come out. Go to your abuelita and say, abuelita, who taught you how to make that calabaza con pollo that's so good? Or you can go to your tia and say, tia, when's the next time? When's the next time you're gonna come to my house and we're gonna play with the valeros? I like to play with the valeros. Or maybe it's you're gonna interview your teacher. But anyway, they get a list of questions. Well, interview the mayor who's gonna come to your festival. They put their interview questions on. They learn how to do an interview. They learn how to ask questions. And use a digital tool. How to use a digital tool. And then, so now they've got this history. Maybe they took a few pictures with abuelita, with the tia, or whoever. And they've got pictures now. You can download those, move on to what we call the storybooking. And that's where they can take the story. You have pictures, and maybe you write down, this is tia, whatever. And this is tio, so and so. And this is in 1948 when they came to the San Antonio Zoo. Okay, fine. All right, but there's no story. You don't know what happened there. So this'll give them the opportunity in storybooking to make a story around, here's your mom and daddy when they got married. But now you know where they met, and how they met, and when they got married. And now you've made a story. You've made a book. Sandra Cisneros says if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen. So you have to put this down so that these histories stay alive. Then we also have a place where we're going to be teching it up. We have some women who have decided they're going to bring iPads to the session that we're going to do here, the festival we're going to do here, and they're gonna give children the opportunity. You tell them about it. The iPad. Okay, so we're going to interview with the iPhone, and then they're going to take the information and go to a tech corner, and they're going to be able to create a little mini movie with their iPhone, and then upload it. So they'll be able to tell the stories of the dog that got out in front of the neighbor's house, and how he got chased by a cat instead of him chasing the cat, whatever story they invented. And they will have a taste of what it is to use digital instruments to create their own information system. This is critical for our future. I don't think that any career in the future can happen without some kind of digital support system, so be thinking about that. It's gonna be great fun, and they're going to have an opportunity to do many, many things with that. Let's go on to some of the others. The field games. This has happened, when they have their school field day, these are fun things that they do. You're gonna see your races. You're going to see your jump rope. You're gonna see the hula hoops. You're gonna have a parachute with a big beach ball that they're bouncing around. They're going to have maybe a bicycle rodeo. They'll have obstacle courses. Lots of opportunities to play outside and do active things, okay? But they're also going to have arts and crafts. And this is especially where the cultural connection comes in, because you want them to have that tie back to our culture, and what is it that makes it so special? So they're gonna make tissue paper flowers. Are those a big deal? Do we see those everywhere? You see them on the back of a wedding parade. Quincanera. The Quincanera cars. Yeah, the Quincanera cars. But then they're gonna go over to maybe the make a hat section. You saw that slide earlier of the little kid wearing that big hat. Maybe they decorate that with flowers. They're going to do face painting. They're going to be stringing beads. They're going to be using papel picado. They're gonna learn how to make papel picado. Another thing that they see all over the place. All of these artesanias give them that cultural connection. And it's unending. You could have 500 things. This depends on how many people you have and how many booths you want to set up for your festival. And you will have tip sheets on each of these on supplies that are needed and then how to do it. If you don't know what Puputillo is, there's a little history, a couple of paragraphs on what Puputillo is, the materials you need, and how to do it step by step. So those things you'll see on the tip sheet, okay? There's also going to be an opportunity for the kids to build things. Maybe you can get the guy who has the Lego store over on. What is it, McCuller? Wherever you are. Whatever city you're in. Maybe they'll lend you some of the big Legos and you can put them out for the little ones to play with the Legos. Or you can have a Lego table or you can have cardboard carpentry, collect a bunch of refrigerator and big cardboard things and let them create a car or a boat. My granddaughter's favorite thing. We got a big old box. I cut one side of it into it and she now sleeps inside there. She's got a sleeping bag. She doesn't want to sleep in the bed, no? She's going to go take a nap and she goes in there and is like, okay. All right, but they love it. The STEM projects, robotics. The kids are into robotics. Write this down. There's a movie called Spare Parts. If you're not familiar, you know it, okay? It'll make you cry. It'll make you so proud. It's about these kids. Where were they in Arizona or California? California. Okay, anyway, they enter this national robotics contest and everybody says, you're from a little bitty place over here. You're a bunch of Latinos. You can't win no robotics. You know, what are you doing? And so they took them and they got all these spare parts from the weed eater and from car parts and you know, all these things. And dog on it, if they didn't go and they didn't beat out colleges like Princeton and Harvard, they won. I'm telling you the end, but it's good. Look it up. It's a good movie. Anyway, kids love to build things. So give them a place to do some building. Board games. You want the parents to sit down for a while, let them play lotteria, let them play lovin' awesome. Yeah, but it's not just for the parents. It's for the kids too. And they have to make a big checkerboard thing and let the kids jump around and big checkerboards or have the big Frisbee checkers to let them do that. Do a chess tournament. Do a dominoes tournament. How many of you play Mexican train dominoes? You know, all right, you need to come to our house. Music and dance. This is the most fun. The music, you know, you start playing. La Vibra, Vibra, de la mar, de la mar. The kids all of a sudden, it's our London bridges, OK? You ballet folklorico, get an instructor up there to teach, you know, a tantan, tantan, tantan, tantan. OK, get them to dance, you know? Get the mariachi to show the different kinds of instruments they have. Drumming, if you have a cheerleader in your group, let them do a demo. If you have a zumba dancer, you know, let them do zumba. Let them do exercises. You know, give them the opportunity to come and do stuff on the stage with everybody. Mary said a really important thing. She said, if the mariachis are there, have them show the instruments. Now you're talking about something more than entertainment. Now you're learning about the different instruments, the bajo sexto, the what's the big one, guitaron, the violin, all of them. They're just really tremendous learning opportunities. And I will guarantee you that every one of those members of the mariachi would be thrilled to show off their instrument and tell a child what it is or where it comes from or how to do it. Get the high school mariachi group. Get the high school folklorico group. Get them to come out and do this with you guys. You can have a talent show. You can have singers and dancers. You know, the little kids, how many of your little kids get up and sing with the TV, with YouTube and everything? Do theatrical performances. Do puppet shows. Have a poetry slam. Doggone, these kids love it with their rap music. So give them a chance to get up there and do a poetry slam. Science for the little ones. How are we doing for time? We have two minutes left. Science for the little ones. Talk about recycling. Here in San Antonio, you get saws to come down, and they'll show you how to put a thing in the toilet, and so you can save water. And they'll do all kinds of things with you, you know? Safety zone, the car seat installation. Get a fireman. This is an important element. One of the most outrageous statistics in our country is that the number one cause of death for young Latinos has always been not being buckled up. So if you don't have a car seat, that's a big problem. One year, well, we couldn't even get parents to be interested in it. And Meri reminded me that we asked Archbishop Flores to come and bless the car seats. He says, what a great idea. Because everybody said, no, está más seguro conmigo. I'm going to carry my baby. And we're like, your baby is in danger. He's sitting in the front seat in your lap. It comes with a 200 mile an hour torpedo when you step on it. So we started these car seat installations at our festivals, and they have been a hit. Oh, yeah, they always start with a blessing. And then everybody's even holding up their car keys. Bless my car, Padresito. It's really effective. You can have a fire truck come and park itself wherever you're doing your day or your festival. How exciting for the kids to be able to climb up and climb around on a fire truck to see all the different people, to see if firemen all dress up and up close and personal. And to learn how to stop, drop, and roll, because those are the things that are so dangerous for children, is what do they do when there's a fire? They go hide in a closet because they're afraid. But they need to do these things that they can learn. How do you behave around a canine unit? You know, the dog is there, but it's very different from when you see a puppy on the street. So this is a safety zone, a family information zone. Where do I go and find out about schools that are available to my very, very little one? And get a library card. Does everyone have a library card already? If you don't have one, we need to sign you up for one of these festivals. Voter registration. Now, I think that's, we have learned this month how important it is for young teenagers to register to vote because they are creating a voice for themselves all over the country. And I think it's critical that we remind everyone to get a voter registration card. And then you have to have a support station where somebody can go if they lost something or where they can go if they bump their knee and they need a bandaid. It gets too hot and I need water. I have to just sit in front of a fan. And if you do this on a school day and the schools bring their lunches in a nice chest, you need to have a place to store all of the... Stop. Trying to stop it. I think our time's up. All right, let me just... Then, okay, it's over. All right, you've already cleaned up. What are the next steps? We have to say thank you to everybody who participated. But we have to start planning for next year. We need to follow up on all of the issues that the children brought up and that we need to consider to say, continue to address all year long with city council, with the county, with the state, with the federal. Anything that comes up, we need to follow up. And then let's start raising money because next year it's gonna be a much bigger thing because everybody saw how wonderful it was. And if they missed it, they're saying, doggone it, did you see that on Facebook? Well, you gotta go next year, okay? So. And so if you want more information about how to start your own El Dia de los Niños celebrating your Americans, I barely got that out. We've been talking for a long time here. We need you to sign up at www.nlci.org, download the information. Once you do that, then we're happy to have you use our logo, use the materials that are there, learn how to create a wonderful event, and also learn how to make your community better by creating all the right kinds of answers and solutions and ideas for a better future. Voices for our children. Exactly. And we'd be happy to help in any way we can. So contact Becky or me through NLCI or through IDRA, they know how to get us here in San Antonio. We'll be happy to help in any way we can. So we look forward to seeing you at the next El Dia de los Niños celebration. The one in San Antonio will be the national event because we're celebrating the 20th year. It's April 29th at the Avenida Guadalupe, where our partner's the Avenida Guadalupe, it's at Plaza Guadalupe on a Sunday, the last day of fiesta, an official 300 event from two to six p.m. in the afternoon. Please be there, join us, celebrate with us, El Dia de los Niños celebrating young Americans. Thank you. Thank you very much.