The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History

FAIN: ES-301297-24

San Jose State University Research Foundation (San Jose, CA 95112-5569)
Matthew Spangler (Project Director: February 2024 to present)
Sukanya Chakrabarti (Co Project Director: July 2024 to present)

A two-week, residential institute for 25 K-12 teachers to explore California’s immigration history through literary and historical texts.

San Jose State University (SJSU) proposes to host a two-week Summer Institute for twenty-five K-12 school teachers titled: The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History. We have hosted this institute four times previously (in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2022) and found it to be a great success. We propose to host it again from July 13 to July 27, 2025. While we welcome applications from all K-12 teachers, librarians, and administrators, our primary participant audience is middle and high school teachers of literature, social studies, history, foreign languages, and theatre.