Sixth Annual Mexican American / Raza Studies Department Summer Institute of the Tucson Unified School District

July 28-31, 2004

Featured Speakers:

Pedro Noguera, Ph.D. – Dr. Noguera is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. An urban sociologist, Noguera’s scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment.

Geneva Gay, Ph.D. – Dr. Gay is a professor of Education at the University of Washington.  She is nationally and internationally known for her scholarship in multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, staff development, classroom instruction, and intersections of culture, ethnicity, and learning.

Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. – Dr. Valenzuela is an associate professor in Education and Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.  Her book, Subtractive Schooling: U.S. – Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring  recently won the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award.

Tara Yosso, Ph.D. Dr. Yosso is an assistant professor in Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Her research and teaching utilizes the framework of critical race theory, Latino Critical Race Theory and critical media literacy to focus on the educational access, persistence and graduation of underrepresented students in the United States.

 In addition to the featured speakers, the conference will provide Chicana/o Studies based lessons and units that teachers at all grade levels can take and use in their classrooms.

For more information and/or to receive registration packets please contact:

Mexican American / Raza Studies

Department of the Tucson Unified School District.

1010 E. Tenth Street · Tucson, AZ · 85719

Phone: (520) 225-6229, FAX: (520) 225-6292

Or Tomas Martinez  Tomas.Martinez@tusd.k12.az.us