MAS for Texas Schools

Bring your voice. Share your story. Together, somos MAS.

Join scholars, activists, historians, artists, and politicos for a collective celebration of the past, present, and future of Mexican American Studies and Ethnic Studies in Texas. We will be sharing the powerful and inspiring MAS work happening across the state, as well as brainstorming and strategizing ways to continue to build and sustain the movement for MAS in Texas schools. There will be sessions related to community and parental engagement, media, politics and policy, as well as pedagogy, curriculum, and practice in elementary, secondary, and higher education spaces.

This year’s summit will include a focus on Mexican American Literature including readings and book signings by Mexican American poets and writers whose books are shaping curriculums. Additionally, teachers who attend will receive free curriculum guides, aka lesson plans, for grammar school, middle school, and high school. These have been commissioned by the Latino Bookstore at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio through a grant from the office of Congressman Joaquin Castro. Middle school teachers, sign up early to get invited to attend a workshop for implementing Mexican American Literature. There will also be exhibits by publishers and authors and a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say.

Texas teachers will receive up to 4 hours of Continuing Professional Education for participating in this Summit.

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Watch the opening plenary for the 5th Annual Statewide Summit on Mexican American Studies in October 2020.

About this event

This year’s virtual summit continues a conversation about the future of Mexican American Studies and Ethnic Studies in Texas, and gives teachers, administrators, board members and interested people, information and resources to help them implement MAS in their classroom, schools and community. This one-day event is open to educators and community members who are interested in implementing Mexican American Studies in Texas schools or expanding course offerings, as well as those who are interested in advocacy and policy work for MAS across the P-20 spectrum.

Texas teachers will receive up to 4 hours of Continuing Professional Education for participating in this Summit.

SCHEDULE

9am-10am: Plenary Session

10am-12pm: Concurrent Breakout Sessions

• Politics/Policy
• Elementary Education
• Middle School Education
• Social Studies
• Literature
• Fine Arts
• Higher Education

12-1pm: Closing Plenary/Reports from Breakout Sessions

Unplug from the outside world and JOIN us at The Big Texas Read (TBTR) brought to you by Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink. As featured in Poets&Writers, Forbes, The Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express-News, U.S. News & World Report, San Francisco Chronicle, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Houston Chronicle, and Texas Highways, we’ll be reading ONE work of prose or poetry written by a Texas author every month! We’ll be with you all the way from page one to “THE END” with our Zoom author chats and Q&A’s, scheduled every two weeks. It’s a big virtual book club, and we’d love for you to join in the fun!

7/22 & 8/5: 2020 Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Perez: With The River on Our Face
8/19 & 9/2: Winner of the Iowa Prize for Nonfiction Kendra Allen: When You Learn the Alphabet
9/16 & 9/30: Edgar-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale: Edge of Dark Water
10/14 & 10/28: Debut Novelist Fowzia Karimi: Above Us the Milky Way
11/18 & 12/2: Poet Wendy Barker
10/14 & 10/28: Debut Novelist Fowzia Karimi: Above Us the Milky Way