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What do teachers say after three days at Oaxaca in Chicago?

They talk about their students differently. They talk about their classrooms differently. They talk about themselves differently.

There’s a consistent pattern in the testimonials we hear from past participants: the experience creates a shift in perspective that they couldn’t have anticipated — and that they bring back directly into how they plan, teach, and respond to student writing.

They see their students’ cultural backgrounds not as context to acknowledge, but as the actual substance of instruction.

That’s exactly what Oaxaca in Chicago is designed to do.

📅 June 24–26 | Xoco House Gallery, Pilsen
💵 $1,500 per participant — meals and all materials included
Register: https://paridad.wufoo.com/forms/z12xwape1kgyt5a/

Wondering what three days at Oaxaca in Chicago actually looks like? Here’s a window.

☀️ Morning: A world-renowned Oaxacan artist leads you through a traditional art form — ceramics, weaving, painting, printmaking. You create with your hands. You experience navigating a new cultural framework. It’s exhilarating — and it’s also exactly what your students experience in your classroom every day.

✍️ Afternoon: Sonia Esquivel of With Partners takes that morning’s experience and connects it directly to what it means to teach writing to multilingual learners. Not abstract strategies — specific, actionable approaches you can use that Tuesday morning.

🌇 End of day: You leave with art you made, a new toolkit, and a way of seeing your students you didn’t have before.

Then you do it again the next day. And the day after.

📅 June 24–26 | 8:30 am–3:30 pm | Xoco House Gallery, Pilsen | $1,500 (meals + materials included)
Register: paridad.wufoo.com/forms/z12xwape1kgyt5a/