Maureen Alguilar
When: Friday, November 20, 2026; 2:30-3:15 p.m. CT
Topic
Raíces, Ritmo and Radical Care: Sustaining Anti-Racist Teaching in Spanish Classrooms
Anti-racist teaching requires unlearning, intention and sustainable action. In this session, we will explore how to root our curriculum in Afro-Latinidad and Indigenous Voices by intentionally decentering Eurocentric narratives and amplifying the voices and cosmovisions of Black and Indigenous communities across the Spanish-speaking world.
This session will focus on concrete classroom strategies that can be adapted across proficiency levels. Participants will leave with curriculum reflection tools, culturally sustaining engagement routines, and structures that make Antiracist teaching replicable rather than overwhelming.
We will also examine radical teacher care as a form of resistance. Radical care means setting boundaries, making replicable instructional choices, and recognizing that justice-centered teaching must be sustainable. Educators will leave with clear next steps that honor both their students’ humanity and their own.
Biography
Maureen Alguilar is a Honduran Spanish professor, K–12 educator, and instructional coach who designs culturally sustaining, justice-centered Spanish curriculum that centers Afro-Latinidad and historically marginalized voices while maintaining academic rigor and high student engagement. She helps educators build practical, sustainable systems rooted in radical teacher care so that justice-centered instruction is not only impactful for students, but sustainable for educators.
