Creating a College Culture for Latino Students: Successful Programs, Practices, and Strategies - Paperback

by Concha Delgado Gaitan (Author)

Help your Latino students become college-bound!

This groundbreaking book shows how educators can help Latino students overcome the barriers that prevent them from attending college. Delgado Gaitan, an award-winning professor, scholar, and first-generation Latina college graduate, shares winning strategies from the nation's most outstanding college-readiness programs for Latino learners. You'll find:

• Guidance on creating a "college culture" in elementary, middle, and secondary school, both within the classroom and throughout the building
• Insights on working with families and community organizations to promote Latino students' school achievement and college goals
• Best practices for coaching students, including five essentials for college-preparedness

Author Biography

For over three decades, Concha Delgado Gaitan has been a strong force in the field of Education as an elementary school teacher, elementary school principal, applied anthropologist, researcher, and University of California Professor of Sociocultural Studies in Education. She is an award-winning professor and researcher in Anthropology and Education at the University of California Santa Barbara and Davis. Her work with families, communities, and schools appears in many scholarly publications. Gaitan′s many published works include: Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms; Involving Latino Families in the Schools; The Power of Community; Literacy for Empowerment; Protean Literacy; Crossing Cultural Borders, and School and Society. Gaitan has also worked in the field of public health education in Latino communities, combining that interest with her dedication to issues of social justice in education.