The great movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington made me think that it might be fun to make it an Esperanza tradition to take our 5th grade scholars to Washington, D.C. I did this once, and it was a wonderful experience. As soon as young people enter Esperanza in K we could let families know about this tradition and start a fund specifically for this.
We also might want to think of doing a school exchange with 6th grade students--They would go to school for a month in Mexico and students from the Mexican school would come and attend Esperanza for a month. The exchange would be at different times and the families could in each country could host the visiting students. We did this while I was at Realms and it was a terrific experience. Not only is it worthwhile for the students, even Hispanic students who may never have attended school in their country of origin, but also for teachers.
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