2021 UC Links Virtual International Conference

Welcome and Overview - Linking, learning, and transforming together – Mara Mahmood (UC Berkeley)

Linking Together: Whittier Fifth Dimension - Experiential Learning Session — Whittier College

Brief introduction of new UC Links partners & program.

Corre la Voz - Leslie López & Cynthia Lewis (UC Santa Cruz)

Brief introductions of developing collaborations throughout the UC Links network. Small group discussions

• La Casa de Shere Rom y La Clase Mágica - Beatriz Macías Gomez-Estern (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain) & José Luis Lalueza (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
• International Wellbeing Club Pilot. Amy Bintliff (UC San Diego) & Zaharah Namanda (Africa Education & Leadership Initiative, Uganda)
• Parental Access for Student Success (PASS) Manny Aguilar, Mary Ann Aguilar, Sayra Martinez (La Colonia de Eden Gardens Inc.) & Stephanie Carmona (Community Education Program Initiative)
• UC Links Virtual Youth Summit 2021: Overview of proposed program. Diana Arya, Ali Muller, John Cano, Devon M Christman, Dogukan Ozgen (UC Santa Barbara)

One-on-one opportunity to problem solve and share knowledge, resources, and best-practices with another team. See suggested conversation guidelines.

Brief introductions of new UC Links partners & program.

• Nuestra Ciencia - Chanel De Smet, Ruby Moreno, Hector Reyes, Adrian Torres, Alejandra Yep, & Jasmine Nation (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)

Opportunities to share knowledge, resources, and best-practices in small groups

• Using media to enrich literacy activities
• Digital tooltime exchange - how do you…?
• Emerging research questions centered in this unique moment
• Strategies for addressing racism and educational inequities
• Strategies for gaining institutional support UC Links undergraduate courses
• Successful online teaching strategies for UC Links undergraduate courses
• Strategies for navigating online research
• Strategies for engaging parents in UC Links research
• Supporting the undergraduates’ experience
• Supporting wellbeing for first-generation and immigrant communities
• Exploring how new tools and best practices may inform future learning environments (virtual, hybrid, and/or in-person)
• Mapping our social change roles in times of crisis. - Stephanie Carmona (Whittier College)
• Joining in transnational children's worldviews through performance arts. Hiroaki Ishiguro (Rikkyo University, Japan)
• Math CEO Experiential Learning Session: Engaging Afterschool Students through Fractal Art. Luke Smith (UC Irvine) and Amylene Cabrera (Fallbrook High School)
• Building a Children-Centered Community in Japan: Constraints and Possibilities in Learning during the COVID-19 Crisis Mitsu Inaba (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

Brief introductions of and discussions with global UC Links partners

• Learning together, going back to school in a pandemic Mónica Da Silva (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
• Sharing, valuing & celebrating international experiences - Italy Andreina Varone, Carmen Palieri, Michela Santiangeli (Erasmus+, University of Augsburg, Germany)
• Sharing, valuing & celebrating international experiences - Ghana Cosmos Ofori, Isaac Gyan, Joseph Djardo, Omar Ali (Erasmus+, University of Augsburg, Germany)
• Sharing, valuing & celebrating international experiences - Germany Anastasiya Tsaregorodtseva, Tom Vogt (University of Augsburg, Germany)
• Sharing, valuing & celebrating international experiences: Ecuador — Silia Natalia Aguilar Blacio (University of Augsburg, Germany)
• Sharing, valuing & celebrating international experiences- Sachiko Uchida (Takasaki University of Health and Welfare, Japan)

• CEPI Book Project - Bilingual book and Photovoice Project for participating adults centered around the theme "Life During Pandemic." Participants will contribute a photo with a short description
• UC Links Edited Volume - Opportunity for programs to come together to leverage our collective learning to imagine new forms of equitable education
• UC Links Systemwide Undergraduate Course - Potential for faculty teaching UC Links undergraduate courses to co-teach and co-enroll students across the UC system (or potentially other universities) to distribute the teaching responsibilities and help institutionalize the UC Links course across the system.
• UC Links Virtual Youth Summit - Spring 2021 - Opportunity for youth participants across our sites to meet up virtually in late April or early May to learn from and with each other and have fun!
• UC Links Youth Storytelling Project - Engage older UC Links youth as near-peers, to make and share recordings of themselves reading books in Spanish and English for younger UC Links participants.

Brief introduction of and immersion in UC Links program & partners.

• EPIC Futures: Virtual Playful Making & Tinkering - José Lizárraga, Emily Gleason, Kate Baca, Kachine Kulick, Ashieda, McKoy, Ishita Pradhan, & Adria Padilla-Chávez (University of Colorado, Boulder)