Cuentos, Testimonio, and Oral History: A Community Writing Workshop

• In Event: Dual and Multi-Languages: How Teachers, Parents and Communities Can Build Bridges

Abstract

This study examines the design and implementation of a series of teacher professional development workshops with practicing secondary ELA and History teachers working in the U.S/Mexico Borderlands. The study will employ two intersecting theories: Lat-Crit theory and Borderlands theories. The workshops will provide the opportunity for practicing teachers to come together to learn hands-on strategies and curricular approaches to teaching adolescents living in the borderlands.The professional development will focus on ways of inviting teachers to explore writing opportunities that allow them to learn ways to give their students opportunities to make public their lived experiences and family histories within the formal secondary curriculum.

Author

• Monica Baldonado-Ruiz, San Diego State University