Hispanic Heritage Month 2025

This year’s national theme for Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15–Oct 15) is:

Collective Heritage: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future.

I’ve created a Choice Board + Rubric designed to help students explore Hispanic and Latine cultures in meaningful, creative, and tech-integrated ways. The goal is to highlight past contributions, celebrate present traditions, and imagine future innovations — all while giving students voice and choice in how they demonstrate their learning.

✨ What’s Inside

• Thematic Focus: Collective Heritage, Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future
• Key Outcomes: Representation, Connection, and Inspiration & Impact  
• Project Options (students may choose or create their own):
• Biography Poster of a Hispanic/Latine leader
• Culture Collage of traditions in food, music, or art
• Timeline Project of contributions in U.S. history
• Literature Connection (analyze a poem/story by a Hispanic/Latine author)
• Music & Dance Exploration (salsa, reggaeton, mariachi, etc.)
• Collective Recipe Book of traditional dishes
• Future Voice Podcast or Vision Board highlighting next-gen impact
• Innovation Challenge — design an invention inspired by culture  

Each activity includes suggested Apple apps (Keynote, Pages, Freeform, Clips, Numbers) to make projects engaging and interactive.

📊 Rubric & Standards Alignment

The resource also includes a rubric aligned to WIDA language expectations and NJ Student Learning Standards in ELA, Social Studies, and Visual/Performing Arts. Students are assessed on content accuracy, creativity, theme connection, language use, and effort/completion  .

🎯 Implementation Idea

Teachers can display student projects on a bulletin board by October 10 to celebrate learning across the school community  .

💡 Why share this with your students?

It provides culturally responsive learning opportunities, encourages creativity with Apple tools, and helps students see how Hispanic and Latine voices make an impact — yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

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