This is the final segment of our interview with Pat Fennell, president and CEO of the Latino Community Development Agency. It discusses how to overcome the language barrier between English-speaking teachers and Latino students.

This segment of our interview with Pat Fennell, President and CEO of the Latino Community Development Agency, discusses absenteeism among Latino students and how to connect with their families.

This segment of our interview with Pat Fennell, President and CEO of the Latino Community Development Agency, discusses the body language of Latino students and how it can be misunderstood.

This segment of our interview with Pat Fennell, president and CEO of the Latino Community Development Agency, discusses how to connect with Latino parents through meetings, etc.

This segment of our interview with Pat Fennell, president and CEO of the Latino Community Development Agency, discusses Latino culture and how it relates to Latino families' views of education.

Pat Fennell is President and CEO of the Latino Community Development Agency, an organization that offers various social services to the Latino community. In this interview, POE's Executive Director, Ginger Tinney, asked Pat to discusses various challenges that teachers may face with Latino students, and what they can do to help those students succeed.

This interview is broken into six segments based on different topics. Each chunk will be uploaded to this section of the POE Web site each Monday morning over the course of the next six weeks. This week's topic is terminology, which discusses the different terms Latino, Hispanic and Mexican.

If you have questions you would like to ask Pat Fennell, please direct them to media@professionaloklahomaeducators.org and we will get an answer for you.

 

In this interview, Congresswoman Mary Fallin (Dist. 5) shares her views on No Child Left Behind, the role of the federal government in education, and other top federal education issues.

Professional Oklahoma Educators Executive Director Ginger Tinney, State President Tracy Dakil and lobbyists Doug and April Miller visited our nation's Capitol in June 2008. During their visit, the team from POE met with all seven members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation.

Interviews were conducted with all five of Oklahoma's U.S. Representatives, as well as Senator Jim Inhofe.

In this interview, U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe shares his views on No Child Left Behind, the role of the federal government in education, and other top federal education issues.

Professional Oklahoma Educators Executive Director Ginger Tinney, State President Tracy Dakil and lobbyists Doug and April Miller visited our nation's Capitol in June 2008. During their visit, the team from POE met with all seven members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation.

Interviews were also conducted with all five of Oklahoma's U.S. Representatives.

In this interview, Congressman Tom Cole (Dist. 4) shares his views on No Child Left Behind, the role of the federal government in education, and other top federal education issues.

Professional Oklahoma Educators Executive Director Ginger Tinney, State President Tracy Dakil and lobbyists Doug and April Miller visited our nation's Capitol in June 2008. During their visit, the team from POE met with all seven members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation.

Interviews were conducted with all five of Oklahoma's U.S. Representatives, as well as Senator Jim Inhofe.

In this interview, Congressman Dan Boren (Dist. 2) shares his views on No Child Left Behind, the role of the federal government in education, and other top federal education issues.

Professional Oklahoma Educators Executive Director Ginger Tinney, State President Tracy Dakil and lobbyists Doug and April Miller visited our nation's Capitol in June 2008. During their visit, the team from POE met with all seven members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation.

Interviews were conducted with all five of Oklahoma's U.S. Representatives, as well as Senator Jim Inhofe.