The Second National 2020 NLERAPP Summit

DATE:
January 24-25, 2020

TIME:

8AM – 8:30PM FRI, 8:30AM-4PM SAT

LOCATION:

Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESB-MACC)
600 River St, Austin, TX 78701

DESCRIPTION:

On January 24-25, 2020, NLERAPP will hold its second annual summit at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESB-MACC). The summit will bring scholars, university faculty, and public school teachers from around the country and Oaxaca, Mexico, to attend sessions in Spanish and English on the teaching of Indigeneity in K-12, especially, dual language/bilingual and Ethnic Studies education.

Space is limited so please register right away if you plan to attend. In addition, 16 CPE credit hours are available to all Texas public school teachers!

In light of the focus on Indigeneity among our Academia Cuauhtli teachers in Austin, combined with changing demographics that emanate from the crossing of Indigenous peoples across the U.S.-Mexico border, and the recent passage of Mexican American Studies and Native American Studies in Texas to which standards shall get soon aligned for its teaching in the public schools, this Summit helps to advance this conversation and agenda by providing a context where questions important to the K-12 classroom can get asked.  For example, this Summit helps answer such questions as the following:  What is Indigeneity?  Who is Indigenous?  What are Indigenous ways of knowing and teaching in the classroom?  And what does Indigeneity mean for students across borders—and what should it mean?  How should it optimally manifest in curriculum and pedagogy, particularly in the bilingual/dual language, as well as in the Ethnic Studies, classroom?  Accordingly, the Summit interrogates the “language of culture” marshaled in the K-12 bilingual and dual language classroom in the historic context of settler colonialism while providing teachers with resources for their classrooms in this regard.

At the summit, we expect to have teachers who are teaching Indigenous studies in the U.S. and Mexico, with guests and presenters from la Universidad Autónoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca, México (the Autonomous University of Benito Juarez in Oaxaca).  The summit will feature sessions on Indigenous mathematics, including the “Nepohualtzitzin” (Mayan mathematics), fine arts, as well as topics related to identity and teaching from an Indigenous epistemology based on work that is currently taking place in both university and primary and secondary classrooms around the country where Indigeneity is an explicit focus.

Again, we urge you to register right away as space is limited. Registration closes on Friday January 24, 2020.

COST:
$100.00 for attendees.
$300.00 for elementary or secondary bilingual/dual language and Ethnic Studies teachers receiving CPE credit.

(Registration is now closed)

Thank you to our sponsors.
NLERAPP
Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Culture Center
Academia Cuauhtli
Texas Center for Education Policy
Nuestro Grupo
The University of Arizona Foundation
UNM Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies
LLILAS BENSON
Indigenous Cultures Institute
Universidad Benito Juárez
Austin Community College Foundation
San Diego State University
The University of Texas at Austin:
Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies
Native American Indigenous Studies
College of Education – Education Leadership and Policy
College of Fine Arts – UTeach Fine Arts