1st Edition
Advancing Educational Equity for Students of Mexican Descent Creating an Asset-based Bicultural Continuum Model
Part I:
What do students, parents, teachers, counselors, administrators and community leaders feel is necessary for excellent education for all children in their community?
Chapter 1: Children and Communities with Promise: A Place-based Approach to an Asset Based Bicultural Continuum Model.
Andrea Romero & Iliana Reyes
Chapter 2: Promesa Vision, Needs, and Strengths: Voices of Children, Youth, and Parents
Iliana Reyes, Andrea Romero, Monica Moreno & Juvenal Caporale
Chapter 3: We Have a Vision of a Healthy College-Going School: Principals, Administrators and Counselors
Sei Eun Kim, Andrea Romero, Jose Rodas
Chapter 4: Coalition Building for an Asset-based Bicultural Continuum:
Breaking Down Silos in La Zona de Promesa
Andrea Romero, Juvenal Caporale, Iliana Reyes & Gabriel Higuera
Chapter 5: Asset-based Bicultural Continuum Model for Educational Equity of Low-Income and Mexican Descent Students
Andrea Romero, Iliana Reyes, Michelle Rascon, & Elisa Meza
Part II:
How one community engaged with education to create an asset-based bicultural continuum
Chapter 6: Early Childhood Communities as Bilingual and Bicultural Assets
Iliana Reyes & Monica Moreno
Chapter 7: Creating College Going Culture in Middle School Through Youth Participatory Action Research: Unity for Change, Believe in Us!
Sei Eun Kim, Christina Partida, & Andrea Romero
Chapter 8: From Community Mapping to Community Action: Youth Participatory Action Research on the Educational Pipeline
Michele Rascon, Stephanie Montaño, Alex Romero, & Andrea Romero
Chapter 9: Social Workers Developing Relationships and Linking Students Families and Teachers to Local Resources
Juvenal Caporale, Elisa Meza, Michele Rascon, Kaylin Shady, Andrea Romero, & Josefina Ahumada
Chapter 10: Final Reflections: La Zona de Promesa and The ABC Continuum Model
Iliana Reyes & Andrea Romero
Biography
Andrea Romero is Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professsor of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, US.
Iliana Reyes is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Community and Global Partnerships, Professor of Teaching and Learning, Sociocultural Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, US.
