Are you a Latino student in middle school, high school or college? If so, what is required of you to become a competent student? Do you know the difference between study habits, study skills and study strategies? Why should you answer these questions? Simply because you are responsible for your…
Read More Learning How To Learn: A Personal Choice to Increase Your Value
We all know what we mean when we say “He/she has a good/bad attitude.” However, do we really know what is an “attitude?” We all know what we mean when we say “He/she has a good/bad attitude.” However, do we really know what is an “attitude?” Instead of “attitudes,” I…
A substantive concept of what it means to be a “good” or competent student not only identifies the skills required, but also implies the proper design and essential minimal conditions for student development. Student development skills can and should be substantively taught as student development thinking. A substantive concept of…
Read More Our Call as Educators: Teach Students What A Great School Year Is All About
As mid-summer preparations for the 2015-2016 school year begin, it behooves us to pause and consider the ways Latino students enter public school classrooms having already internalized certain norms about how to behave in class. As most teachers can attest to, too often, those internalized norms frustrate their expectations for…
Read More A Student Centered Decision-Making Approach to Improve Latino Student Learning
The process of developing a “courageous mindset” allows students to confront the inherent barriers they might face in their intellectual and social development as an educated citizen. Seasoned educators in low-performing, low-income, predominantly Latino, and other minority, high schools understand the power of peer pressure on their students’ decision-making process…
As summer begins, there is no better time to focus our attention on academic preparation for the 2015-2016 academic year. As summer begins, there is no better time to focus our attention on academic preparation for the 2015-2016 academic year. As the CEO and Founder of OjoOido.com, I am most…
Read More Summer School: A Student Plan of Action to Gain a “Competitive Edge”
Mario Olivares’s goal through OjoOido is to demonstrate to Latino students and colleagues what can transpire when one sets and identifies a goal and makes a life-long commitment to focus, work, study and practice. He strives to expose the discipline required to do whatever it takes to meet that objective.…
Read More OjoOido Latino Role Model Autobiographical Essay: “My Lawrence Welk Show” Story
At 17 percent of the population, Latinos make-up the largest minority in the United States. Latino youth under the age of 18 represent 25 percent of the nation’s child population. Within the next 20 years, one in three American youth will be Latino. It is hard to deny how critical…
There is in the U.S. education reform movement and amongst status quo education leaders across the country, little recognition of and appreciation for the value of Latino Role Models as a collective intergenerational group. Latino Role Models are particularly attune to and stand to offer a depth of understanding towards…
Read More The Latino Education Crisis: Past Experience Meets the Future of Learning
“McFarland, USA” is an inspiring sports movie that features a largely Latino cast and stars Kevin Costner as a track coach at, the predominantly Latino, McFarland High School in rural Central California. Based on the true story of a 1987 cross country team comprised of Mexican farm laborers’ children and…
