Saturday, October 17: Educators, librarians, and book lovers, join us as we present Pablo Leon with the 2026 Américas Award for his YA novel Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide.
We had a full house on September 23, 2026, for our third annual conversation with contemporary Central American authors at Busboys and Poets, featuring Anna Lapera, John Manuel Arias, Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Diana Rojas, and Jared Lemus.
October 5–9, 2026, educators nationwide will teach about Central America during Latinx Heritage Month. More than seven million Central Americans reside in the United States and migration from the region is headline news. However, most schools teach very little about Central America, including the long history of U.S. involvement in the region. Teaching for Change …
Our Communities, Our Histories: Engaging Oral History Praxis Across the Salvadoran Diaspora is on online session held during Teach Central America Week.
By Jonathan Peraza Campos Apart from being the program specialist for Teaching Central America at Teaching for Change, I am proud to be a middle school teacher in the historic immigrant neighborhood of Buford Highway. I teach an ethnic studies curriculum from the standpoint of making the curriculum responsive to students’ experiences and identities, including …
Jonathan Peraza Campos was invited by Dr. Theresa Alviar-Martin to give a workshop for teachers participating in Kennesaw State University’s Education for Sustainability and Human Rights Fellowship in June of 2026. He shared about his developing work to design an approach for an “ethnic studies of the Global U.S. South” and the work of Teaching …
We are pleased to share several new and forthcoming titles on Central America and Central Americans in the United States. Two of the titles (Mani Semilla and Avocado Dreams) are by Teach Central America advisors Anna Lapera and Ana Patricia Rodríguez. Two other advisors, Claudia Portillo and Jennifer Cárcamo, contributed essays to Central American Women …
In February 2026, Jonathan Peraza Campos, the program specialist for Teaching Central America, visited Springdale, Arkansas, to facilitate a day-long workshop on immigration and Latinx/Central American history for the Alliance for Immigrant Respect and Education (AIRE). AIRE has been leading know your rights sessions, growing a base of allies, and providing support to the immigrant …
By Jonathan Peraza Campos Serving as program specialist for Teaching Central America is my commitment to my people and our struggle. I teach Central America as an attempt to heal our connection to our homelands, to bridge the gap between forgetting and unforgetting, between historical omission and historical memory. In 1991, my mother came to …
Over the summer, Teaching Central America Program Specialist Jonathan Peraza Campos had the opportunity to spread the word about Teaching Central America and to help grow infrastructure for Central American studies across the country. In these dire times, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and in despair. However, while at the XITO teacher institute in …
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2026 Américas Award Ceremony
Posted: October 2, 2026 by Mykella
Saturday, October 17: Educators, librarians, and book lovers, join us as we present Pablo Leon with the 2026 Américas Award for his YA novel Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide.
Category: 2026, News, News Articles, Teaching Central America Tags: Central America
Contemporary Central American Voices
Posted: September 24, 2026 by Aileen Tapia
We had a full house on September 23, 2026, for our third annual conversation with contemporary Central American authors at Busboys and Poets, featuring Anna Lapera, John Manuel Arias, Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Diana Rojas, and Jared Lemus.
Category: 2026, News, Social Justice Books Articles, Teaching Central America Tags: Central America, Events
Teach Central America Week 2026
Posted: August 31, 2026 by Allison Acosta
October 5–9, 2026, educators nationwide will teach about Central America during Latinx Heritage Month. More than seven million Central Americans reside in the United States and migration from the region is headline news. However, most schools teach very little about Central America, including the long history of U.S. involvement in the region. Teaching for Change …
Category: 2026, News Tags: Central America
Teach Central America Week Virtual Encuentro
Posted: August 15, 2026 by Allison Acosta
Our Communities, Our Histories: Engaging Oral History Praxis Across the Salvadoran Diaspora is on online session held during Teach Central America Week.
Category: 2026, News Tags: Central America, Events
Central American Studies at Sequoyah Middle School in Metro-Atlanta
Posted: July 13, 2026 by Mykella
By Jonathan Peraza Campos Apart from being the program specialist for Teaching Central America at Teaching for Change, I am proud to be a middle school teacher in the historic immigrant neighborhood of Buford Highway. I teach an ethnic studies curriculum from the standpoint of making the curriculum responsive to students’ experiences and identities, including …
Category: 2026, News, Teaching Central America Tags: Central America
Teaching Central America at Kennesaw State University
Posted: June 2, 2026 by Mykella
Jonathan Peraza Campos was invited by Dr. Theresa Alviar-Martin to give a workshop for teachers participating in Kennesaw State University’s Education for Sustainability and Human Rights Fellowship in June of 2026. He shared about his developing work to design an approach for an “ethnic studies of the Global U.S. South” and the work of Teaching …
Category: Teaching Central America Tags: Central America
New Books on Central America
Posted: March 1, 2026 by Allison Acosta
We are pleased to share several new and forthcoming titles on Central America and Central Americans in the United States. Two of the titles (Mani Semilla and Avocado Dreams) are by Teach Central America advisors Anna Lapera and Ana Patricia Rodríguez. Two other advisors, Claudia Portillo and Jennifer Cárcamo, contributed essays to Central American Women …
Category: 2026, News, News Articles Tags: books, Central America
Teaching Central America for Immigrant Justice in Northwest Arkansas
Posted: February 20, 2026 by Allison Acosta
In February 2026, Jonathan Peraza Campos, the program specialist for Teaching Central America, visited Springdale, Arkansas, to facilitate a day-long workshop on immigration and Latinx/Central American history for the Alliance for Immigrant Respect and Education (AIRE). AIRE has been leading know your rights sessions, growing a base of allies, and providing support to the immigrant …
Category: 2026, News, News Articles Tags: Central America
How and Why I Teach Central America
Posted: September 15, 2025 by Allison Acosta
By Jonathan Peraza Campos Serving as program specialist for Teaching Central America is my commitment to my people and our struggle. I teach Central America as an attempt to heal our connection to our homelands, to bridge the gap between forgetting and unforgetting, between historical omission and historical memory. In 1991, my mother came to …
Category: 2025, News Tags: Central America
Teaching Central America: Community, Knowledge, and Liberation in 2025
Posted: September 12, 2025 by Mykella
Over the summer, Teaching Central America Program Specialist Jonathan Peraza Campos had the opportunity to spread the word about Teaching Central America and to help grow infrastructure for Central American studies across the country. In these dire times, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and in despair. However, while at the XITO teacher institute in …
Category: 2025, News, News Articles Tags: Central America