Ethnic Studies For All
What is Ethnic Studies?
Ethnic Studies incorporates culturally relevant, social justice, community responsive and other pedagogical approaches with a focus on literacy and critical thinking skills. Ethnic Studies has a 50 year history in the United States with high school students in East LA demanding Mexican-American studies in their schools in 1968 and college students in that same year creating the first college Ethnic Studies programs at San Francisco State University.
National Walkout Day: Op-Ed from CNCA Teacher
"As an educator, I feel a duty to not only academically support my students, but also to encourage and empower them at a time in our country when many of them feel powerless and dehumanized by people in power." Read more by Pablo DePaz, Teacher at Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy
Experiencing Ethnic Studies in LA
Camino Nuevo High School students go into the field as part of their Ethnic Studies pedagogy. Read more by Laura Farrel, Teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter High School - Dalzell-Lance Campus
What is the Ethnic Studies For All Initiative?
The Ethnic Studies For All Initiative at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy is grounded in four key pillars: decolonial, anti-racist, culturally responsive, and community responsive pedagogies. With these pillars and within Teaching For Tolerance’s Social Justice Standards and Anti-Bias framework, a cross-campus Ethnic Studies Task Force, participating and administrators from 6 CNCA campuses have collaborated engaged in professional development led by expert scholars. The participating teachers have created Ethnic Studies units and lessons in their classrooms that have been compiled so that they are available for all CNCA teachers.