The Each One Teach One (EOTO) project is a year-long, Grow Your Own teachers program that aims to recruit, train, and support critically conscious multilingual teachers of color. 

Each One Teach One is funded by the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) and is offered in collaboration with TUSD’s Mexican American Student Services and Career & Technical Education departments. 

What is Each One Teach One?

EOTO provides 15 local high school juniors with an introduction to the teaching profession. Students will participate in weekly learning sessions that focus on generating and implementing a culturally sustaining curriculum and pedagogy and promoting intergenerational teaching and learning.

EOTO includes the following:

  • In-depth studies of solidarity and resistance movements orchestrated by students of color in U.S. public schools and the structural inequities that drove and continue to drive them
  • Discussion and study of affirming and culturally/linguistically sustaining approaches to education for students of color
  • Development of lesson plans to teach local TUSD elementary school students

On successful completion of the program, students will receive a digital badge and a certificate of achievement from the University of Arizona.

Application Process

The program is open to underrepresented TUSD high school juniors involved in TUSD Career & Technical Education programs. EOTO is limited to 15 participants, so interested TUSD students should apply to participate in the project.

Interested students will complete a brief application. Applications will be accepted through February 5, 2021.

Schedule

Classes will be held online via Zoom every Wednesday from 3:30-6 p.m. from October 7th – April 21st, 2021.

Learn More

For more on the program, see: "New program at TUSD aims to bring more diversity to the classroom" (KOLD News 13).

Instructor

J. Eik Diggs is a licensed Spanish language and English as an additional language teacher who has developed and taught in a multi-year state and nationally recognized high school Spanish as a Heritage Language program in South Minneapolis, Minnesota.  She is the co-facilitator of the University of Minnesota’s summer CARLA institute: Teaching Heritage Languages and Learners and the co-author of Our Wild Tongues: Language Justice and Youth Research (2018) in PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of Las Americas. J. anchors her language teaching in intra-ethnic studies and social justice content and focuses on developing young people who are self-advocating and strong in their multilingual identities and backgrounds. She is a PhD student in Language, Reading, and Culture at University of Arizona.

Program Coordinators

Julio Cammarota is a professor of education at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latinx youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, and liberatory pedagogy. He has published articles on family, work, and education among Latinxs and on the relationship between culture and academic achievement. Dr Cammarota's work has been instrumental with advancing social justice in education and youth development. He is the co-editor of two volumes in the Critical Youth Studies series published by Routledge/Falmer Press:  Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America’s Youth (2006) and Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion (2008). In addition, Dr. Cammarota has published an ethnography of Latinx youth entitled, Sueños Americanos: Barrio Youth Negotiate Social and Cultural Identities (University of Arizona Press, 2008). His work includes co-editing a volume on the struggle for ethnic studies in Tucson, Arizona: Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution (University of Arizona Press, 2014). Finally, he recently published an edited collection on participatory action research for Latinx communities, entitled PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of Las Americas.

María Federico Brummer is the Director of the Tucson Unified School District Mexican American Student Services Department.