Courses for Spanish teachers about teaching heritage speakers
University of Illinois at Chicago online Fall course, Teaching Spanish to Heritage Speakers
Startalk online modules about teaching heritage languages
George Mason University’s online Graduate Certificate in Spanish Heritage Language Education
In person, CARLA: Critical Approaches to Heritage Language Education: Centering Identities, Race, and Power in Language Reclamation
COERLL at the University of Texas-Austin. Heritage Spanish Professional Development Modules
University of Nebraska-Omaha. Online Graduate Certificate in Teaching Spanish to Heritage/ Bilingual Learners
Textbooks for Spanish teachers about teaching heritage speakers
• Potowski, K. (Forthcoming, 2025). Enseñar el español a los hablantes de herencia: Cultivando jardines.
• Potowski, K. (2005). Fundamentos de la enseñanza del español para hispanohablantes en los EE.UU. Arco Libros.
• Beaudrie, S., Ducar, C. & Potowski, K. (2014). Heritage language teaching: Research and practice. McGraw Hill.
Other resources for Spanish teachers about teaching heritage speakers
Facebook
Teachers of Spanish Heritage Speakers; Teachers of Spanish as a Heritage Language
The Heritage Language Exchange
University of Texas at Austin online site for teachers to share ideas
Blogs
Sybil Alexandrov's blog, Yale University
Nancy Dominguez’ padlet
• 2022 Heritage Language Symposium videos
• El Lexile Framework for Reading asesora el nivel de lectura de los alumnos, tanto en inglés como en español.
• Spanish language arts standards from WIDA
• List of cases of linguistic repression in the USA
• Un folleto del Center for Applied Linguistics, titulado "Why start and maintain an SNS program?" http://www.cal.org/resources/pubs/sns_brochure.pdf
• A debate about the term "Spanglish"
• Carreira & Beeman's excellent book, Voces: Excerpts about how and why people lose their Spanish, and a review I wrote of the book.
• Video, "If you ask me about my Spanish" by Melissa Lozada Oliva: In English and in Spanish