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NLERAP Grow-Your-Own Latina/o Teacher Pipeline
As the Associate Director of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP) I helped to lead a collaboration between institutions of higher education, local K-12 districts, and community-based organizations focused on increasing the representation of critically conscious, bilingual teachers in five cities and states—most notably Sacramento, California. With funding from the Ford and W.K. Kellogg Foundations I worked closely with colleagues in Teacher Education to institutionalize courses focused on social cultural theories and methods that affirm students’ racial/ethnic, cultural, and linguistic identities.
Selected publications from this project:
Valenzuela, A. & López, P.D. (2015). The National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project: Origins. In M. Lavadenz & A.C. Muniz, Latino Civil Rights in Education: La Lucha Sigue. New York, NY: Routledge Press.
Valenzuela, A. & López, P.D. (2014). Creating a Cadre of Critically Conscious Teachers and “Taking this Country to a Totally new Place.” In P. Portes & S. Salas. U.S. Latinos in K-12 education: Seminal research-based policy directions for change we can believe in. Routledge.
Valenzuela, A., López, P.D. & Casanova, Ú. (Eds.). (2012). A Critical Pedagogy Curriculum Handbook for Teachers of Latino/a Youth in Schools: A National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Framework. Austin, TX: National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP). Final Report to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Valenzuela, A. & López, P.D. (2011). The National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP) and the Teacher Education Institutes. Austin, TX: The National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP). Final Report to the Ford Foundation.
