One of the most impactful ways to pay tribute to Hispanic heritage with your students is by sharing the incredible narratives of renowned people with Latin American backgrounds who have significantly influenced the United States’ rich history. Activists, performers, entrepreneurs, poets—get to know just a few cultural leaders to showcase in your classroom.
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Access classroom and teacher resources all in native Spanish—estrategias didácticas, organizadores gráficos y planes de clase—designed to make teaching easier and more impactful for students.
National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates many countries, cultures, and stories. Honor this diversity by assigning student groups a region, movement, or figure to research and teach to others, creating a shared, collective understanding.
Encourage thoughtful observation of images, murals, and photographs—perfect for analyzing art, street murals, or cultural symbols—to help students build empathy and interpretation skills.
Explore identity, migration, bilingualism, and belonging through respectful dialogue after reading short texts or listening to oral histories of leaders such as Sandra Cisneros, Dolores Huerta, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Visualize the complex interconnections among language, geography, culture, and history within Hispanic and Latin American heritage—and emphasize that culture is not monolithic but a web of intertwined experiences.
Transform the classroom into an interactive exhibition where students move through stations featuring the diversity of identities, art, poetry, music, historical figures, or cultural milestones of Hispanic and Latin American people.
Looking for ready-to-use tools to spark classroom discussion? These curated resources—videos, e-books, blogs, and quizzes—make it simple to highlight history and culture during National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Use this two-minute video to introduce your classroom lessons or celebrations.
Expand students’ horizons by having them research different traditions, customs, and cultures and then present their findings and share a cultural artifact with the class.
Read our article featuring 200+ notable Hispanic and Latin Americans who have shaped our history. Encourage students to investigate their biographies and discover limitless possibilities.
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