Constructing New Futures: Examining the Effects of an After-School Enrichment Program on English Learners and Families

• In Event: Teacher Preparations and Home-School Partnerships

Abstract

This presentation focuses on the voices of various participants engaged in a longitudinal qualitative research study that explores the effects of an ongoing collaboration between a teacher-training programs and a public charter high school. This collaboration is an effort to help pre-service teachers develop more contextual knowledge in working with Latina/o English learners in urban school settings. This paper will show the dynamic curricular experiences that develop around social justice when preservice teachers and high school students are allowed to create culturally relevant projects. The multifaceted after-school enrichment program incorporates, parents, school staff, preservice teachers and university researchers working towards impacting the academic and social outcome of Latina/o immigrant high school students.

Author

• Reyna G. Garcia-Ramos, Pepperdine University