PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

CLAS is a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, receiving funding to further Latin American language and area studies at Stanford as well as in K-12 and community college education. The following professional development opportunities were developed and offered to K-12 and higher education educators throughout the 2021-22 academic year.

CLAS owes its success to its meaningful collaborations. Special thanks to our partners: Stanford Global Studies (SGS) programs and centers; Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET, Stanford Graduate School of Education); Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies); Stanford World Language Project (SWLP, Stanford Graduate School of Education); Stanford University Libraries; Stanford Language Center; Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA); Office of the Associate Vice Provost for Inclusion, Community and Integrative Learning Stanford History Education Group; Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP); University of California, Davis Hemispheric Institute on the Americas; University of California, Los Angeles Latin American Institute; University of California, Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies; University of Utah Center for Latin American Studies; San José State University’s College of Education and Department of World Languages.

Educator Participation

K-12: 424

Língua Portuguesa Professional Development Program

This program brings together secondary and community college Spanish language instructors to study Portuguese language and culture with the goal of expanding Portuguese language programs in secondary and community college institutions. The 2021-22 course was led by native Brazilian Portuguese language instructor Valéria Caldas Vieira and included conversation practice sessions with Priscila Bordon.

October 2021 to May 2022

Summer Institute

2022 educator exchange program

Community College: 110

University: 77

“Intercambio DocenteEducador: Enseñanza, justicia social y docentes como activistas a través del imperio,” which took place throughout central Mexico. The program was led by Davíd Morales, a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education and instructor in the Stanford Teacher Education Program. The program featured visits to various popular and alternative education projects in Mexico and brought together educators from urban and rural contexts in Mexico and California to discuss teacher activism, social justice pedagogy, and movement-building.

July 4 - 13, 2022