K-12 OUTREACH: Past Events

Spring & Summer-I 2007

Border Teachers Network, Border Institute - Application Form.

A unique opportunity for K-12 teachers to learn first-hand about border issues, including immigration, trade, health and education at the US-Mexico border.

• Tentative Program for Border Awareness Experience, March 19-23, 2007
• Information from Women's Intercultural Center
• Application Form

Reading Material

• Funds of Knowledge : Chapter 3 - Formation and Transformation of Transfer of Funds
• Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality - Chapter 5
• Americas Program
• Americas Program Special Border Link - Immigration Debate
• Frontera Norte Sur
• Womens's Intercultural Center
• Annuncitation House
• Las-Americas : Immigrant Advocacy Center
• U.S.Citizenship and Immigration Services
• Border Studies Curriculum
• Bill Bigelow, "The Line Between US : Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration".
• Rethinking Schools
• Yolanda Chavez Leyva: "Children on the Border, 1880-1930"
• Market Study - Mexico
• Market Study - U.S.A
• Border Network for Human Rights
• Anthony, NM : http://www.southernnewmexico.com/Articles/Southwest/Dona_Ana/Anthony/AnthonySanMiguelLaMesaCha.html
• Horizon City :http://www.city-data.com/city/Horizon-City-Texas.html/
• Clinica Guadalupana :http://sptimes.com/2006/02/14/news_pf/Northpinellas/Blessed__dedicated_an.shtml/
• On the Edge:http://political.detritus.net/juarez//
• Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Service (DMRS):http://www.elpasodiocese.org/dmrs/dmrs.htm/
• Border Network for Human Rights:http://www.annunciationhouse.org/bae.html/
• Ciudad de la Muerte:http://takenbythesky.net/Juarez/june_2003.html
• General Information :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.-Mexico_border
• Border Health Issues:http://bphc.hrsa.gov/bphc/borderhealth/
• Teacher Lesson Plans:http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/13/g912/usmexico.html
• Tunnels along border:http://usinfo.state.gov/wh/Archive/2006/May/03-566328.html
• Border Studies Information Resources at NMSU: http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/mmolloy/border_studies_resources_2005.htm
• Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation.
• World Hands Project.
• La Jornada.
• Exodus: Border-Crossers Forge a New America by Charles Bowden,Sep-Oct 2006 issue. .
• William Adler, "A Job on the Line," Mother Jones (March/April 2000)
• Maggie Jones, "Migrants No More" Mother Jones (Nov/Dec 2004) Vol. 29; No. 6, pp. 78-84.
• Public News Room: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krwg/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=975776

I hope you enjoy your visit to the Center For Latin American and Border Studies website. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call at (505) 646-6814.