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 […]