Notes from MASTexas meeting for the Texas Plan
by Tony D on 05/18/14
The Texas Plan: Meeting I:Opinión. Tony Díaz: aprendamos sobre nuestra historia
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Goals:
50 Schools
Teach Mexican American Studies at a Minimum of 50 schools.
April 08, 2014 to Fall Semester 2014:
February 2015 NACCS Tejas Foco Lone Star College-North
Harris, Houston, TX.
August – December 2014,
And Spring 2015: January – May 2015
200 School
Districts
September 2015 – December 2015
September 2015 Book Fair of the Americas
January 2016 – May 2016
Overall Approach
MAS Tool Kit:
Create the MAS Tool-Kit administrators
and teachers need to implement and conduct MAS for Fall 2014 or later.
100’s of districts
at a time: Ruben Cortez TX State Board of Education can cast a wide net
to get 100’s of school districts statewide
to endorse MAS or committee to implementing MAS at once.
MAS in the Class
room: MAS Texas Coalition can approach individual school districts or
schools at a time.
MAS in the
Community: MAS Texas Coalition and Librotraficante can lead grass roots
and community events to inform the community: a.) Librotraficante Under Ground
Libraries B.) Student Groups C.) Family Engagement: 5 parents from 5 schools in
one district delivers a district.
10 Ways Your Local School Board Impacts Your Life
Create a List of
all schools and school districts agreeing to implement MAS, and a list
of schools implementing MAS. (This should include school districts and
multi-school district organizations that endorsed MAS to the SBOE.)
MASTExas.org
Offer MAS Texas , especially www.MASTexas.org
as a source for materials for teachers to utilize to implement MAS and conduct
MAS Course.
Feb 2015 Tejas
Foco: Plan towards sharing information, best practices, and policy
strategies, and inviting policy makers, at the 2015 Tejas
Foco February 2015 to be held at Lone Star College-North Harris Campus,
Houston, Texas.
MASTexas.org will be updated with notes, news, and
resources-especially for implementing Mexican American Studies.
Details:
We will post lesson plans on www.MASTexas.org
Resources for teachers who want to implement Mexican
American Studies from all levels K-12. We are informally calling this the “Blue
File.”
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Lesson Plans:
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Book references
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Curriculums
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Syllabi
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Class room exercises
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Student Examples
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List of experts
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Professors
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Writers
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Scholars
Easiest Ways for
High Schools to Implement Mexican American Studies:
1.
Implement Introduction to Mexican American
Literature as a dual credit course.
2.
If you teach Composition II/English 1302, add
Mexican American Literature as an emphasis.
3.
Implement LOTE 9th – 12th
Spanish Special Topics Mexican American Studies
4.
If you teach Spanish, add Mexican American
Literature as an emphasis.
5.
Advanced option: Encourage schools to offer the
first PEIMS course one semester.
6.
The Second Semester add the research course.
7.
There is also room for different levels: first
level, second level, third level, fourth level.
8.
How to Implement Mexican American Studies via
Social Studies endorsement:
1.) AP
Human Geography
2.) World
History/World Civilization Hybrid
3.) U.S.
History
4.) U.S.
Gov/ Eco Year
9.
4th year English: Innovative
Course-English with the Endorsement.
10. Confirm:
If 16 more students request the course, it can be added.
Quantum Demographics: As we refine the path to
implementation for MAS and create the kit to conduct the classes, we will also
identify leaders in African American Studies, Native Amerian Studies, Asian
American Studies to offer those classes also.
Future SBOE ISSUE:
Cultural and Linguistic Topic Course: PEIM number:
New Code is only one code for social studies.
We offer one code.
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We need
four social studies PEIMs numbers for special topics.
Future
Presentations:
Librotraficante Under Ground Libraries are links to
community. In Houston, MECA houses UG Library.
September 2014 TASBE: Present information to school boards.
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38% of HISD are reading at grade level.
Track Changes in 1302: how does a MAS topic/focus fit in?
Get the recipe from Juan Tejeda for Dual Credit.
Tejas Foco: Feb. 2015 at Lone Star College-North Harris:
policy makers, teach teachers, famiies, students, student groups.
SBOE wanted to know how many schools teach MAS?
List of schools
teaching or implementing MAS:
2 High schools in El Paso ISD.
South Houston High School, Pasadena ISD: LOTE Spanish
Mexican American Special Topics (Houston area Fall 2014)
McCollum High School (San Antonio Fall 2014)
Kipp College Prep (San Antonio Fall 2014)
Harlandale High School (San Antonio Spring 2015)
In near future: Aldine ISD (Lone Star College-North Harris,
Victory Center, Houston)
Schools that we
need to confirm or get information/details/contact info:
John Gomez: teaching MAS at a Middle School for years.
(Confirm.)
HISD has a Collaboration with HCC: Early Colleges. (Confirm)
HCC Dual Credit with Yzaguirre: HUMA: Special Topics in
Social Studies. (Confirm).
Rio Grande Valley MAS Fine Arts (esp. accordion).
HISD wants Culturally Relevant works. Milby offered MAS 5
yrs ago.
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