The Latinx Education Collaborative was selected by Guadalupe Centers High School students as a client for a design thinking project program, part of the school’s new Impact Academy. Students have community organizations pose a problem that they work to solve over on trimester. 3 students chose this problem as their project: How might we gather & validate data about why Latino students are not choosing education programs?  


The mission of Latinx Education Collaborative (LEC) is to retain and increase the representation of Latinx education professionals in K-12. In Kansas City, the representation of teachers of color is not close to matching the percentage of students of color in our schools.  The LEC has asked GCHS students to help gather data about why students are not choosing to be educators, identify trends in this data, and make recommendations that can improve education programming so education careers are more desirable.

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It’s the third episode of Quinxe; a conversation with Special Guest and educator, Alfredo Crossman-Chavez, Jr. We’re discussing assimilation, understanding your identity, and the importance of authentic representation. Stick around

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Join TFA in Supporting KC Students and Teachers

Teach For America Kansas City believes that all children deserve the opportunity to attain an excellent education and to do so, we recruit andsupport remarkable leaders to serve as excellent

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Connecting KC: Palacios works to give Latino students classroom role models

By Brian Kaberline  – Editor, Kansas City Business Journal, March 24, 2020 “I was born in Miami where being Latino is super amazing. I got to speak Spanish everywhere. I got to interact

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