About
Mission Statement
Project SSTARC is a two-year collaborative project between the Center for Bilingual Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and PSJA ISD and Harlingen ISD founded by National Endowment For The Humanities. The project aims to provide an opportunity for local K-5 teachers to gain a better knowledge of local and regional history, create relevant social studies content for their students in both English and Spanish, and disseminate the content on a wide scale to enrich the schooling experience of students by exposing them to authentic humanities content.
During the first year, this project will bring together four humanities scholars of Mexican American Studies to work with a total of 42 K-5 teachers during two different 4-day workshops. At the workshops, teachers will collaborate to design lesson plans based on the content presented by the scholars. In the second year, a one-day conference will showcase the redesigned curriculum to 100 K-5 teachers
