Resources
Sin Fronteras Boy
Students Create Collaborative Websites to Explore the Border
Grace Cornell
Fourth-grade English language learners use wikis to study border issues and gain literacy skills.
Putting a Human Face on the Immigration Debate
A unit on immigration with Spanish-language students
Steven Picht-Trujillo, Paola Ledezma
For those of us working with immigrant populations, we have in our students living examples that we can use to bring the immigration issue to the forefront and teach all of our students.
TV Selfishness and Violence Explode During ‘War On Terror
2nd graders discover new trends in TV since 9/11
Margot Pepper
Six years into the ‘War on Terror
Polar Bears on Mission Street
Fourth graders take on climate change
Rachel Cloues
San Francisco fourth graders learn about global warming and take action to save the polar bears.
Edwina Left Behind
Standardized tests take their toll in rural Alaska
Sören Wuerth
Edwina did what was asked of her. Did Alaska do everything it could for her?
Language Lessons
Using student assistants to bridge culture and language
Denise M. Hanson
Using native Spanish speakers to instruct their classmates in more than just verbs and pronunciation.
Lies My Spanish Textbooks Tell
Latinos dance, they sing, they happily play baseball. And what great food!
Sandy Shedivy
Latinos dance, they sing, they happily play baseball. And what great food!
Welcoming Kalenna
An early childhood teacher strives to make all her students feel at home
Laura Linda Negri-Pool
When I was a child, our home was filled with the sounds of Spanish, mariachi music, and boisterous conversations. At home, my Nana cooked enchiladas, menudo, and tamales. During family celebrations we broke piñatas, danced, and […]
Testing Lang
Amy Gutowski
Lang was a student of mine last year, an eight-year-old with big brown eyes and a shy, quiet nature. He hated writing; putting pencil to paper was a brutal task […]
Strawberry Fields Forever?
An early childhood teacher draws on her past while teaching children of migrant farmworkers
Cirila Ramírez
When I was a child, my mother couldn’t help us with our homework. She had gone to work as a maid in a Mexican hacienda at age 11 and hadn’t learned to […]