Struggling to recruit staff, area school districts have sponsored teachers from Latin America on J-1 and H-1B visas to fill bilingual vacancies.
Once the mob of seventh-graders settled into their seats and the chaos between class periods subsided, Texas history teacher Kevin Mora asked them for a show of hands. The topic was colonization. Students who knew what the term meant were told to give a thumbs-up. Most of their thumbs pointed to the floor, indicating the opposite. “Colonización es apropriarse de un lugar por medio de la violencia,” Mora, 26, explained. To take ownership of a place by means of violence, in other words.
on whether his request for an extension will be accepted. He hopes his hard work will be reflected in the district’s answer. “I would really like to stay,” he said. “I am hoping they see how much we are contributing to the schools because this district has so many Spanish-speaking students — not only from Mexico but from other countries as well — and I think we have a great impact on them.” Colombia to Texas In 2020, Mora took his first trip to the U.S. to see a relative in Virginia.
has partnered with the agency since 2022, when its board approved a $325,200 contract to recruit in all grades to help fill vacancies and support the district’s push for culturally relevant studies. Trustees this year added $157,000 to continue the program. Administrators said the district, which started the new school year with 148 teacher vacancies, also plans to seek proposals for J-1 visa sponsors to find new teachers for the 2025-2026 school year.
at the Eloise Japhet Academy, where he received the district’s Linguistic Responsive Teacher Award. That was “very significant,” but an even greater accomplishment, Mora said, was when a student new to the country wrote him a letter expressing a wish to be just like him. “That was very rewarding for me because he didn’t know English, and I told him that when I was his age, I didn’t know English either, and that I didn’t learn it until high school,” Mora said.
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