Teachable Moment: Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chaves

Cesar Chavez, American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist, is the most honored Hispanic American, to my knowledge. He represented the farmer workers, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW.) He carefully followed the lead of Ghandi,  Martin Luther King, and included the Catholic Church.

Cesar Chavez

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez 

 The Story of Cesar Chavez
THE BEGINNING 

http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?inc=history/07.html&menu=research 

Yes, we can!

Here are quotes from Cesar Chavez from the site http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/cesar_chavez.html

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

  If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

 From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 5/10/13

David Mobley

Interview with David Mobley, Principal of Desert Trails ES (Trigger School) 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/05/interview-with-david-mobley-principal.html 

Cinco de Mayo and other Tweets of the Day 5/4/13 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/05/cinco-de-mayo-and-other-tweets-of-day.html 

Kids Developing Skills Tweets of the Day 5/6/13 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/05/kids-developing-skills-tweets-of-day.html

Classroom Adjustments Tweets of the Day 5/5/13 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/05/classroom-adjustments-tweets-of-day-5513.html 

Interacting with Kids Tweets of the Day 5/7/13 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/05/interacting-with-kids-tweets-of-day-5713.html?spref=bl 

Stick ball=physics?

Let's See What We Can Do Tweets of the Day 5/8/13 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/05/lets-see-what-we-can-do-tweets-of-day.html?spref=bl 

 

Teaching, Reading, Living the Positive Tweets of the Day 5/10/13 

Jack and Carrie

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/05/teaching-reading-living-positive-tweets.html 

 

Cinco de Mayo and other Tweets of the Day 5/4/13

 

Traditional Folklorico Dance in Old Town State Historic Park, San Diego

1. Mexico Activities for Kids (including Cinco de Mayo)

http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/mexico/ 

2. Honoring Hispanic Heritage on Cinco de Mayo 

http://www.teachhub.com/honoring-hispanic-heritage-cinco-de-mayo 

3. 14 Educational Websites Students Will Want to Visit 

 http://www.teachhub.com/14-educational-websites-students-will-want-visit?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=14+Education+Websites+Students+Will+Actually+Want+to+Visit&utm_content=mzteachuh%40yahoo.com&utm_campaign=Newsletter+5-3

4. EdTech’s 2013 Must-Read IT Blogs Nominees

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/04/edtechs-2013-must-read-it-bloggers-nominees 

5. Dyslexia Is

http://www.explore1in5.org/what-is-dyslexia/

6. 27 Ways To Be A 21st Century Teacher

http://edudemic.com/2013/04/27-ways-to-be-a-21st-century-teacher/ 

7. Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers — and transforms elementary school

http://dailynightly.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/01/18005192-principal-fires-security-guards-to-hire-art-teachers-and-transforms-elementary-school?lite 

This is just my way of apologizing for the typos I sometimes make. And me, an English major!

 

 

 

Arriba! Tweets of the Day 4/30/13

 

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/cinco-de-mayo/

1. The Benefits of Team Sports 

http://www.education.com/magazine/article/Ed_Benefits_Team_Sports/?cid=80. 

2. I Caught My Child Looking at Porn -- What Do I Do? 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-howerton/i-caught-my-child-looking-at-porn-what-do-i-do_b_3042096.html?utm_hp_ref=parents&ir=Parents&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 

3. What Happens When Students Are Simply Free To Learn?

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/what-happens-when-students-are-simply-free-to-learn/ 

4. A Must-Read Guide: Talking to Kids About Standardized Tests

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/04/26/how-talk-kids-about-standardized-tests?cmpid=wfs-fb 

  Candy Factory - I Love Lucy

http://www.schooltube.com/video/fa42507c38494dd39fe2/ 

 

5. What "I Love Lucy" Can Teach Us about Executive Function 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2013/04/what-i-love-lucy-can-teach-us-about.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

6.  The Impact of Shakespeare on Teachers and Students

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/impact-shakespeare-teachers-students-heather-wolpert-gawron?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

7. Making Melted Bead Suncatchers

http://www.artfulparent.com/2012/06/making-melted-bead-suncatchers.html