Making After-School Cool Podcast
Education
Attracting young adults to work with programs supporting youth is important yet can sometimes be difficult to achieve. However, when agencies can identify and engages young adults to play a role in the coordination of youth services then the benefits can be positive, and the programs become more appealing to school aged students. Therefore, this episode of Making After School Cool Podcast focuses on the importance of young adults, working with youth initiatives. To speak on this topic is Ms. Fernanda Marrero who is the Program Manager for the City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Education
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Guest
My guest today is Ms. Fernanda Marrero who is the Program Manager for the City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Education. Fernanda is a first-generation college graduate of the University of Houston, and a certified teacher through the teachHOUSTON program. She is currently working on her master’s in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Fernanda has a passion for making STEM more accessible to underrepresented groups and has worked with programs which makes computer science education accessible to all students.
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Fernanda Marrero
Fernanda.Marrero@HoustonTX.gov
Mike Wilson
mwilson@hcde-texas.org
Harris County Department of Education
https://hcde-texas.org
CASE for Kids
hcde-texas.org/afterschool-zone
Preview of EP 47: The Impact COVID-19 has on Harris County Residents in Relation to Gender, Economic and Ethnic Groups
EP 47: The Impact Covid has on Harris County Residents based on Gender, Economic and Ethnic group
EP 46: Part 2 Strategies for discussing Diversity, Privilege, Oppression, and Leadership
EP 45: Strategies for discussing Diversity, Privilege, Oppression, and Leadership
EP 44: CASE Staff Reflections of 2020
EP 43: The Influence Project Based Learning (PBL) activities Have on post HS graduate Students
EP 42 Strategies Afterschool Programs can use to teach Unsung Heroes in American history
EP 41: Strategies to Address Student's Sensory Regulation & Executive functioning Deficits
EP 40: Celebrating Lights on Afterschool Youth Voice
EP 39: Having Conversations with Youth regarding Diversity, Equity and Social Justice
Ep 38 Embracing a Multicultural Sensitive Environment Part 2
EP 37: Embracing Multicultural Sensitive Environment
Ep 36 Jerry LeVias Overcoming Racism
Ep 35 Teaching Diversity through Language Arts
Ep 34 Understanding Special Education Services For OST providers
Ep 33 Children’s Museum Summer Services during Covid19
Ep: 32 YMCA Summer Services during Covid19
Ep 31: The COVID19 Academic Slide Impact on Students’ Achievement
Ep 30: Houston public library services during COVID-19
Ep 29 OST supports Working families during Covid19
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