2021 CLACS Summer Teacher Institute
Underreported News Stories from Latin America
Please join Pulitzer Cente and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for an engaging webinar and workshop series Monday, June 28-Wednesday, June 30, 2021 (9am-12noon CDT) that will introduce techniques for integrating journalism about Latin America, media literacy skills, and global competency skills into the curriculum. Led by education staff and journalist-grantees from the Pulitzer Center, this virtual Institute will include presentations by award-winning journalists , , and . The Institute is also designed to give participants the opportunity to collectively explore ways to use journalism to teach communication and critical thinking skills, and to analyze how other instructors have employed Pulitzer resources to support their curricula and help students develop critical thinking, communication skills, and empathy.
Click to register. Participating educators will also receive certificates for professional learning units (PLUs) upon completion of short surveys at the end of each day.
A collaboration between the , the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the . CLACS, LACIS and FIU are Title VI National Resource Centers, funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
*If you participated in the 2020 CLACS Institute, please note that the 2021 program features three new journalists sharing yet more underreported stories from Latin America.