K-12

Professional Development for K-12 Educators

Enrichment Programs for K-12 Students

Summer Teachers Institute: Abroad - Mexico! (Summer 2016)

During this 10-day course, teachers go into the field as a scientists in Mexico! Participants work with scientists on research projects focusing on ecology, sustainability, and conservation science at the Los Tuxtlas Research Station in Veracruz, Mexico, developing projects with Stanford teaching experts to take back to their classrooms.  For more information, visit the Teacher Institute Abroad page. 

SUMMER TEACHERS INSTITUTE: EXAMINING GLOBAL CHANGE IN THE ERA OF IMPERIALISM: FACILITATING CRITICAL DISCOURSE (SUMMER 2015)

In partnership with the Graduate School of Education’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET) and as part of the SGS EPIC program, CLAS will offer a professional development opportunity, with a focus on global history, for high school teachers wishing to internationalize their curriculum. This 5-day seminar is part of the CSET Stanford Summer Teaching Institute (SSTI) and will focus on imperialism (broadly defined) in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia. Teachers will draw upon this content knowledge to collaboratively develop new lessons that encourage critical discourse to take back to their classrooms.  For course information and registration, visit https://cset.stanford.edu/programs/ssti > Week 1 Courses >  Examining Global Change in the Era of Imerialism: Facilitating Critical Discourse.

SPANISH TEACHERS INSTITUTE (ACADEMIC YEAR 2015-16)

In partnership with the Graduate School of Education’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET), CLAS will offer a year-long professional development institute for Spanish-language teachers. This institute will span the 2015-16 academic year, bringing teachers together to discuss informative and engaging presentations and resources on integrating Latin American language and content into their classrooms. More information about this institute will be available in Summer 2015.

AMÉRICAS BOOK AWARD WORKSHOps (AUTUMN, WINTER)

The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) founded the Américas Award in 1993 to encourage and commend authors, illustrators and publishers who produce quality children’s and young adult works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States; and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use. CLAS offers Américas Award professional development workshops for teachers, bringing authors and faculty together with teachers to incorporate award-winning literature into classrooms. For information on recent and upcoming workshops, visit the Américas Award Workshops page.

CONSORTIUM ON LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAMS (CLASP) TEACHER SUMMER INSTITUTES

Consortium on Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) member institutions regularly hold high quality and engaging summer teacher institutes for K-12 educators. To help ensure that these nationwide programs are publicized and made available to teachers across the country, CLASP distributes a compiled program list. Click here for the latest list. 

STANFORD ACADEMIC ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL ENRICHMENT (SAAGE)

Since 2011, the SAAGE program has brought highly motivated high-school students to Stanford’s Center for Latin American Studies to take part in multi-disciplinary academic training under the mentoring and supervision of professors and graduate students. Through a variety of pedagogical tools, including field visits, multi-media presentations, literature, film, and current-events, students gain significant knowledge of various aspects of Latin American studies and the importance of the Latin American region for the world at large. Such knowledge is intended to facilitate students’ future academic and community-based work. For more information about the SAAGE program, visit http://stanford.edu/group/saage_archive/cgi-bin/wordpress.

SAAGE wins Stanford Community Partnership Award. View article here.

STANFORD SCIENCE

The CLAS-Cesar Chavez Academy of Palo Alto “Stanford Science” focuses on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The partnership brings students from Cesar Chavez Academy of Palo Alto to the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University weekly for the entire fall quarter to learn science in several Stanford science laboratories and in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, including a tour of the rain forest ecosystem of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. In these sessions, students receive an introductory presentation of the theme of study for the session, followed by a demonstration of the corresponding laboratory, engaging the students in some activity representative of the research being done therein and allowing for the interaction of outstanding Stanford professors/instructors and local students. During his presentation on ecology and biodiversity of rain forests at the California Academy of Sciences, CLAS Director and Professor in the Biology Department Rodolfo Dirzo brings an emphasis on Latin America to the Stanford Science program. For more information, see the Stanford Science 2013 Report.

STEM FOR LATINAS

In Fall 2014, CLAS served as a host in the pilot program STEM for Latinas, coordinated by the Mexican Consulate of San Jose, California, which introduces Latina girls, aged 9-13 and from low-income families, to the professional world of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math through activities such as workshops, a university tour, and visits to technology companies locate in Silicon Valley. The goal is to inspire Latina girls, thereby creating a future in which more Latina women integrate into the fascinating world of science and technology. Professor Dirzo hosted the group at Bolivar House on November 5, 2014. The success of this program has led to launching of the program under full co-sponsorship of CLAS, Fundación Televisa, and the Mexican Consulate in San Jose, starting spring 2015.