Note the building entrance is on N. Maryland Ave.
Hourly paid parking is available in the 51���� Lubar Business garage, also on Maryland Ave.

In-person workshop:

• February 6: 51���� priority deadline (free – 51���� faculty, students, staff)
• February 20: all educators registration deadline ($10 for non-51����)
• Registration is capped at 30 educators��

Teaching Heritage Language Learners: Practical Strategies for Spanish Language Instructors

In this interactive workshop, teachers of Spanish who have Heritage Language Learners (HLLs) in their classes will explore practical, research-informed strategies for navigating the language classroom and supporting their students across a variety of classroom contexts. Participants will learn how to get to know their students more deeply by identifying students’ previous language experience and proficiency levels. We will also discuss multiculturalism, and how teachers can learn about, validate, and appropriately inquire about students’ traditions and experiences. Additionally, we will reflect on how teacher biases and personal experiences can shape classroom expectations and interactions. Finally, attendees will apply these ideas to hands-on examples and case studies from real classroom scenarios.

Instructors of Spanish from all levels are welcome, and we look forward to hearing about your thoughts and experiences and working collectively to improve the classroom for our students.

This event is presented by the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Language Resource Center; and Department of World Languages and Cultures; and UW-Madison’s Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS).

Please contact Monica VanBladel (414-251-5216; vanblade@uwm.edu) with any questions.

About our facilitators

Dr. Diego Román is an Associate Professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Román holds a B.S. degree in Agronomy from Zamorano University in Honduras and a M.S. degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He also earned a M.S. degree in Biology, a M.A. in Linguistics, and a Ph.D. degree in Educational Linguistics, all from Stanford University. At the K-12 level, Dr. Román taught middle school science to Emergent Bilinguals for seven years, first in rural Wisconsin and then in San Francisco, California. Dr. Román’s research interests are located at the intersection of applied linguistics, bilingual education, and science education. Specifically, he investigates the implicit and explicit ideologies reflected in the design and implementation of bilingual and science education programs, particularly on how environmental topics are taught to multilingual students.

Kiley Specht is a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds an M.A. in Spanish Linguistics from UW–Madison and a B.A. in Spanish Education with a French minor from Illinois State University. Her research interests include second language acquisition, dialectal variation, Caribbean Spanish, heritage language learners, bilingualism, and phonology. Her experience teaching Spanish at the high school and post-secondary levels shapes her commitment to researching approaches to improving language education for both teachers and students.

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Global Reads Webinar: Author Nadine Pinede on her YA Novel When the Mapou Sings

K-12 educators, join us for a conversation with Nadine Pinede, author of the 2025 Honor Book, When the Mapou Sings. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the book with the author and consider classroom applications.

Infused with magical realism, this story blends first love and political intrigue with a quest for justice and self-determination in 1930s Haiti.

Sixteen-year-old Lucille hopes to one day open a school alongside her best friend where girls just like them can learn what it means to be Haitian: to learn from the mountains and the forests around them, to carve, to sew, to draw, and to sing the songs of the Mapou, the sacred trees that dot the island nation. But when her friend vanishes without a trace, a dream—a gift from the Mapou—tells Lucille to go to her village’s section chief, the local face of law, order, and corruption, which puts her life and her family’s at risk.

Forced to flee her home, Lucille takes a servant post with a wealthy Haitian woman from society’s elite in Port-au-Prince. Despite a warning to avoid him, she falls in love with her employer’s son. But when their relationship is found out, she must leave again—this time banished to another city to work for a visiting American writer and academic conducting fieldwork in Haiti. While Lucille’s new employer studies vodou and works on the novel that will become Their Eyes Were Watching God, Lucille risks losing everything she cares about—and any chance of seeing her best friend again—as she fights to save their lives and secure her future in this novel in verse with the racing heart of a thriller.

For more information, please email Katrina Dillon at kedillon@arizona.edu.

2026 Global Reads Webinar Series

Once a month throughout the Spring, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Children’s Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, and South Asia Book Award) sponsor a free 60-minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards to facilitate a discussion with the author on how to incorporate the book into the classroom. We encourage educators to read the books with your colleagues, students, and community, and then join us to hear more from the author.

Future 2026 webinars (February-June 2026) will be updated soon .

Américas Award Sponsors

The awards are administered by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) and coordinated by both Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the University of Arizona’s Center for Latin American Studies. Generous support is also provided by Florida International University, Michigan State University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Florida, University of Michigan, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Austin, University of Utah, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Vanderbilt University.

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This session will be recorded and made available afterward to all who register.

Career educators: join UW-Milwaukee’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies to learn about free teaching resources and curriculum available through Digital Promise to help globalize your CTE classroom!

These materials are designed to support high school and community college educators working in career and technical education, allowing you to globalize your instruction and thereby better prepare your students for our global economy.

Educator Webinar: Preparing Students for Success in a Global Economy

Today’s students will be graduating into a world that is ever more interconnected. One in ten Americans is foreign born, and local communities—urban, suburban, and rural—are growing more diverse. To take advantage of global market opportunities, companies want employees with knowledge of global trends in their industry and the ability to work across cultures. Therefore, career and technical education (CTE/TVET) instructors must prepare their students to compete, connect, and cooperate on an international scale. Using real-world, global issues in the classroom can more deeply engage students in CTE content and lead to enduring interest in career pathways. Educators will leave this session with an understanding of global competence and how to begin to integrate it into what is being taught in CTE (vocational education) courses. Examples of engaging projects as well as free online professional development courses and tools will be shared.

About our facilitator, Verónica Vázquez Ugalde

Working with Digital Promise’s Global Cities Education Network, Verónica helps design and organize global learning opportunities that empower education leaders to share and explore promising solutions to systemic education challenges that can improve education for all. She also manages programs focused on training secondary and post-secondary educators to incorporate global competence into curriculum. Before joining Digital Promise, Verónica led program development, teacher training, and evaluation at Empatico, a platform that enabled elementary school classrooms around the world to connect through virtual exchanges to foster cross-cultural collaboration, empathy, and other career readiness skills. Verónica graduated with a BS in Economics from American University and an MA in Economic Policy from Boston University.

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Especially relevant for teaching social studies, urban studies, and environmental studies

August 5, 6, and 7, 2025 (10am-11:30am CT, via Zoom)

Event recordings available

Free teaching resources available

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Maps are a compelling tool for student engagement: their visual presentation of information encourages exploration, critical analysis, and sometimes a new spatial approach to otherwise familiar topics. This three-day webinar series will provide participants with:

• • An interactive overview of free digitized maps of Latin America and the Caribbean, both historical and recent;
• • A workshop introduction to the free digital mapping tool , which allows users to overlay multiple maps for visual comparison (); and
• • A presentation of two current large-scale mapping projects of the region (on Brazilian land use & Latin American mining conflicts), including discussion of how to use them in teaching.

Sessions will include workshop time to support participants in strategizing how to incorporate this material into their existing curriculum.

For questions or more information, contact Monica VanBladel (vanblade@uwm.edu).

Please register below by July 28, 2025.��Everyone who completes the webform registration below will receive an email after July 28 with the zoom link for participation.��

This program is a collaboration between the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS); 51���� Libraries; and Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. CLACS and the Stone Center are Title VI National Resource Centers, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education

Image: upper, “Brasilia et Peruvia,” Gerard de Jode, 1593 (American Geographical Society Libraries) / lower, “Cobertura,” MapBiomas Brasil, plataforma.brasil.mapbiomas.org/cobertura, accessed 23 June 2025.

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a K-16 professional development offering

featuring journalist

Thursday, April 25, 2024

6-7pm Central

Sponsored by the��Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,��UW-Milwaukee the��Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Vanderbilt University, and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

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Digital humanities tools are evolving to put more and more sophisticated – and easy to use – tools in the hands of educators and students. Join us to learn how to use one of the newest additions,��, an open-source framework to build multimedia exhibits. Juncture enables authors to build simple or complex narratives, building on other open tools. Tap into existing digital collections and incorporate high resolution images, zooming capabilities, the ability to highlight and annotate specific areas of an object, and provide context and narrative. All with web-based tools that are available to anyone.

Please register by July 24, 2023

A collaboration between the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Digital Collections, 51���� Libraries, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, and the Tulane Latin American Library.����CLACS and the Stone Center are Title VI National Resource Centers, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

Image:  “,” 1862-77, Early Images of Latin America Collection, Latin American Library, Tulane University

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��K-16 educators professional development opportunity (free)

August 1-2, 2022 (10am-11:30am Central, via Zoom)��

The landscape of digital humanities tools continues to grow, with the addition of more and more cloud-based and open-source tools. Join us to learn how to use one of the newest additions,��, an open-source framework to build multimedia exhibits. Juncture enables authors to build simple or complex narratives, building on other open tools. Tap into existing digital collections and incorporate high resolution images, zooming capabilities, the ability to highlight specific areas of an object, and provide context and narrative. All with web-based tools that are available to anyone!

Please register by July 25, 2022.��

A collaboration between the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Digital Collections, 51���� Libraries.����CLACS is a Title VI National Resource Center, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education��

Image Credit: Quechquemitl QUE0052 – front, Puebla, Mexico, Museo Textil de Oaxaca A.C.����

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Saturday, October 23, 2021

9am-12noon (Central Time)

Many heritage language (HL) learners study their home language in the context of mixed classes, that is, classes with second language learners and heritage language learners. However, nearly all the work on HL teaching has focused on specialized HL classes, including the development of teaching methodologies, pedagogical materials, and classroom strategies. Addressing this gap, this workshop��will��consider how critical differences and similarities between heritage and second language learners should drive teaching and learning in mixed classes and on the basis of this, identify general strategies and approaches. Participants will consider how to adapt and apply these general strategies and approaches to their own instructional realities.

Open to all Spanish language instructors.
(Primarily focused on high school and post-secondary levels)��

The workshop is free;����by October 20

Space is limited to the first 40 educators.

Questions?����Julie Kline (jkline@uwm.edu)��

Maria Carreira��(Professor Emerita of Spanish, California State University Long Beach) focuses on heritage languages, with a concentration in Spanish in the US as well as the less commonly taught languages. Her recent work focuses on identity, resilience, and heritage language development and maintenance. She is also co-director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA, Chair of the SAT Spanish Committee, and Associate Editor of��Hispania.

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.����CLACS is a Title VI National Resource Centers, funded by the U.S. Department of Education.����Cosponsors:����51���� Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the 51���� Language Resource Center

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August 2-4, 2021

(10am-11:30am Central, via Zoom)��

Digital Humanities employs information technologies to research and present humanities topics in innovative and engaging ways. With the availability of free authoring tools, educators can draw from openly accessible digital collections of maps, images and other primary sources to create multimedia classroom resources.

Digital Collections��(51���� Libraries), in collaboration with the��Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), UW-Milwaukee, will offer a free, three-session workshop series focused on one such digital humanities tool:��the Knight Lab’s

The workshop begins with a primer/refresher on tool basics, followed by opportunities to brainstorm classroom applications and experiment with the tool by creating a group practice project.�� This program is appropriate both for those new to StoryMapJS and those with previous experience.�� Pre-service teachers are also encouraged to attend.

Please register by July 26, 2021.

To envision ��StoryMapJS in a classroom, have a look at this from a Modern Latin America course at Dartmouth.

A collaboration between the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Digital Collections, 51���� Libraries.�� CLACS is a Title VI National Resource Centers, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

Image:�� An accurate map of the West Indies with the adjacent coast of America / by J. Russell, 1794 (American Geographical Society Library Digital Maps Collection)

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free webinar series

10:00-11:30am Central Time (via Zoom)

(Simultaneous translation to English will be available.)

June 24 –
(Mexico)

Moderated by (Author and Children’s Literature Specialist)

July 1 –
(Argentina)

Moderated by (Author, Researcher, and Head of Strategic Relations at Editorial Norma, Colombia)

July 22 –
(Argentina)

Moderated by (President of IBBY Argentina – )

July 29 –
(Chile)

Moderated by (Author, Translator, Editor)

August 12 –
(Brazil)

Moderated by (Director, Center for Teaching Through Children’s Books, National Louis University)

August 24 –
(Argentina)

Moderated by Jochen Weber (Head of Language Sections, )

Simultaneous Interpreters:�� and

To join us for one or more dates, please register HERE

NOTE:�� Full series registrations (by clicking above) may be submitted at any time.�� However, to receive the unique Zoom invite for a specific session, your series registration via this website must be submitted by 6pm Central Time (Chicago/Milwaukee) the day before the session is scheduled.�� (Example:�� To receive the Zoom link for August 24 with Gusti, please submit your series registration by August 23, 6pm Central.)

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NOTA: Los registros de la serie completa (haciendo clic arriba) se pueden enviar en cualquier momento. Sin embargo, para recibir la invitación única de Zoom para una sesión específica, su registro de la serie a través de este sitio web debe enviarse antes de las 6 pm hora central (Chicago / Milwaukee) el día anterior a la programación de la sesión. (Ejemplo: Para recibir el enlace de Zoom para el 24 de agosto con Gusti, envíe su registro de la serie antes del 23 de agosto a las 6 p.m. hora central.)

A collaboration between the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with the International Youth Library (Munich, Germany) and 51���� Translation & Interpreting Studies.�� CLACS is a Title ��VI National Resource Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Our thanks to Jochen Weber (Head of Language Sections, International Youth Library) for his extensive and thoughtful role in shaping this series.

For those of you in the U.S., Books del Sur is one source for authentic children’s literature in Spanish:�� . They generally work directly with schools, but can work with individual orders from participants in this series (minimum order amount).

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