9:30-9:50
Opening remarks
Olga Kagan (National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA)
9:50-10:00
Introducing the keynote speaker
Calvin N. Ho (Sociology, UCLA)
10:00-10:30
Keynote address - Community-Based Language Schools in the National Educational Landscape
Joy Kreeft Peyton (Center for Applied Linguistics, Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages)
Presentation
10:30-10:40
Break
10:40-11:10
Icebreaker - [Insert language(s)] & your heritage: Exploring your personal connections to language & culture
Netta Avineri (Yiddish) (Applied Linguistics, UCLA)
Presentation
11:10-12:10
Chinese community schools
Claire Chik (National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA) [Presentation]
Calvin N. Ho (Sociology, UCLA) [Presentation]
Fang-Tzu Hsu (Social Science and Comparative Education, UCLA) [Presentation]
12:10-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
Japanese community schools
Bob Uriu (Orange Coast Gakuen) and Masako Douglas (Asian and Asian American Studies, CSU Long Beach) [Presentation]
Aki Yamada (Social Science and Comparative Education, UCLA) [Presentation]
2:00-3:15
Community partnerships
Shushan Karapetian (Armenian) (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) [Presentation]
Ravy Lao (Khmer) (Education, UC Santa Barbara) [Presentation]
Mana Kharrazi (Persian) (Iranian Alliances Across Borders)
Alena Klimovich and Anna Budnyatsky (Russian) (Russian School of Orange County) [Presentation]
3:15-3:25
Break
3:25-4:40
Role of Family
Afaf Nash (Arabic) (Applied Linguistics, UCLA)
Maria Carreira (Spanish) (Spanish, CSU Long Beach)
Quyen Di Chuc Bui (Vietnamese) (Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
Eun Yong Bae (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) and Seunggon Jeong (Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA) (Korean) [Presentation]
4:40-5:00
Discussion