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Community-Driven Leadership: Mexican-Origin Farmworking Mothers Resisting Deficit Practices by a School Board in California
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Deeb-Sossa, Natalia; Manzo, Rosa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
We examine how the community-driven leadership (CDL) of farmworker mothers challenged deficit practices of the local school board, which decided to close the school in the community. CDL is the ability of mothers to activate their community cultural wealth to mobilize their resources in search of better educational opportunities. The mothers…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Agricultural Laborers, Mother Attitudes, Leadership
¡No Cierren Nuestra Escuela! Farm Worker Mothers as Cultural Citizens in an Educational Community Mobilization Effort
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Deeb-Sossa, Natalia; Moreno, Melissa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
Mexican immigrant farm-worker mothers' class, race, citizenship status, and jurisdictional status of their town in a Northern California community rendered them invisible. However, when the school board decided to close the elementary school the mothers mobilized. Drawing on these mothers' "'fototestimonios" we examine how they, as…
Descriptors: Mothers, Agricultural Laborers, Mexican Americans, Immigrants
Dear Cesar Chavez: Writing Persuasive Letters in the Sixth Grade
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Beddow, Maggie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2012
Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Dolores Huerta in 1962, dedicated his life to grassroots organizing to persuade lawmakers and the public to help improve the working conditions of migrant farm workers. In October 1992, the author had been teaching a unit of study on civics to her sixth grade bilingual students in…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Bilingual Students, Civics, Grade 6