Room: Colorado
presented by James C. Jupp, MYP Coordinator, Martin Middle School
Marisela Morin, Spanish Teacher, Martin Middle School
This presentation articulates how the IB Middle Years Programme international component re-connects Latino youth with their parent cultures. This presentation highlights practical narratives of culturally relevant practice using the MYP's international and intercultural education with particular reference to serving inner-city Latino youth in Austin, Texas. These practical narratives provide a unique contribution to the MYP by showing, in detail, what international and intercultural education looks like with poor, inner-city, Latino students.
James C. Jupp, MYP Coordinator, Martin Middle School
Receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr James C. Jupp is a practitioner-scholar with a sixteen-year track record of teaching and working with poor and minority students. Most recently, Dr Jupp led Martin Middle School through their authorization visit. Dr Jupp strongly believes in developing inclusive advanced academics programs that allow children to engage in learning and "find their bliss" while achieving above state requirements, and he combines this belief with both scholarly and practical knowledge of how to reach poor and minority students.
Marisela Morin, Spanish Teacher, Martin Middle School
Marisela Morin is a veteran activist teacher at Martin Middle School in Austin, Texas. An experienced teacher of ESL and Spanish, Ms Morin strives to provide a critical cultural consciousness to her students. An integral part of her curriculum is creating positive Latino identities--both in the community and in her classroom. As part of this striving for positive Latino identities, Ms Morin reconnects Latino students, who typically receive a subtractive education in the United States, with their parent cultures in México and beyond.
