Volumes of curriculum units that New Haven public school teachers developed as 2013 Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Fellows – in four seminars led by Yale faculty members in the sciences and the humanities – are online.

Also available are units that teachers, from New Haven and other communities around the country, developed while participating as National Fellows in six seminars led by other Yale faculty members.  These units are at the Yale National Initiative website.

With Hispanic Heritage Month underway from September 15 through October 15, PBS is airing a documentary series on Latino Americans.

Gwen Ifill interviewed Ray Suarez, her colleague and author of a book that accompanies the series.

Among the historians consulted for the series was Stephen Pitti of Yale, mentioned in an August 2013 (August 10) post below.

Through the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, Steve Pitti led New Haven and national seminars on “Latino Cultures and Communities” in 2006 and 2007, with Fellows developing curriculum units on such topics as “Civil Rights Struggles in the Latino Community.”

Today is International Literacy Day.

Travis Bristol, whose work was mentioned in a June 2013 (June 29) post here, was a guest author this week at the blog of the Albert Shanker Institute.  The subject: "Calling Black Men to the Blackboard."