| AC-264286-19 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Promoting Humanities Learning in Elementary Schools | 1/1/2019 - 12/31/2021 | $111,391.00 | Jennifer | Joy | Esquierdo | Stephanie | M. | Alvarez | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Edinburg | TX | 78539-2909 | USA | 2018 | Hispanic American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions | Education Programs | 111391 | 0 | 110756 | 0 | Collaboration with local school districts to design
a social studies curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade that focuses
on the history and culture of the Rio Grande Valley community.
Project SSTARC (Social Studies Through Authentic and Relevant Content) is a 2-year collaborative project between the Center for Bilingual Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and local school districts in south Texas. The project aims to provide an opportunity for local K-5 teachers to gain better knowledge of local and regional history, create relevant social studies content for their students in both English and Spanish, and disseminate the content on a wide scale to enrich the schooling experience of students by exposing them to authentic humanities content. This project will bring together four humanities scholars of Mexican American Studies to work with a total of 42 K-5 teachers during two different 4-day workshops. At the workshops teachers will collaborate to design lesson plans based on the content presented by the scholars. In Year 2, a one-day conference will showcase the redesigned curriculum to 100 K-5 teachers. |