Support Ethnic Studies in Texas NOW!

Time to put pressure on the legislature to get our Ethnic Studies bills heard this legislative session.  Please call your representatives in the House for a hearing for BOTH  HB1817 and HB366.  Also call your representative on the Senate side for a hearing of SB695.

Contact information appears below for the House and Senate Education Committee representatives, respectively.

If any of you live in the districts of any of the members listed below, do know that you are one of their constituents and call them since a call from you as one of their constituents means a whole lot more than if they receive a call from someone that is not a constituent. If you do not know who represents you, click here to find out. 

If none of the house or senate members represent you, then reach out to the chairs themselves or better yet, tell families, friends, and members of organizations that live in their districts to begin making calls.
One last, very important point.  The Texas State Board of Education may also implement this without being forced by the legislature to do so.  Yes, they are empowered to simply do the right thing.  So if they see that the legislature is getting pressured, they can move on their end without a law making them do this.
The legislative session goes very fast so we all need to get on this right away.
Angela Valenzuela c/s 

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Implementing Mexican American Studies in Texas Public Schools: The Power of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Friends,

I and others will be in Houston soon to make a presentation on the power of Ethnic Studies.  If you're in Houston or the surrounding area and you consider yourself an advocate for Ethnic Studies, then this conference that provides you with the latest research together with a sense of how to carry forward this agenda in your school and district.

Worthy of note at the moment, as well, is Senate Bill 695, Texas' first Ethnic Studies bill in the 85th Legislative Session of the Texas State Legislature that you can read about on this blog here that also provides instructions on next steps.

Thanks to Dr. Lorenzo Cano for the invitation.  

Looking forward to this.  

Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.

c/s

ANNOUNCEMENT

University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies Spring Conference

Implementing Mexican American Studies in Texas Public Schools: The Power of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

March 31 and April 1, 2017

Free Mexican-American Studies conference approaching: The University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies is hosting its spring conference March 31-April 1, titled “Implementing Mexican American Studies in Texas Public Schools: The Power of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.” Interested attendees can RSVP by sending an email message to cmas@central.uh.edu, and should include their name, title, and campus affiliation in the message. Conference participants may also attend a kick-off reception at Talento Bilingüe de Houston (TBH), March 30, 2017, beginning 5:30pm.