TEA is currently facilitating the activities of the Texas-Spain Initiative in collaboration with the Spanish Resource Center in Houston. The LOTE CED assists in this effort by maintaining this Web page. The Summer Institutes in Spain offer a unique professional development opportunity for both teachers of Spanish as a second language and bilingual teachers to participate in summer courses at various universities in Spain. The institutes typically take place in July and last three to four weeks.
Participants are responsible for travel arrangements and the cost of travel.
The deadline for applying to the 2001 Summer Institutes is March 30, 2001. Following H.M. the King of Spain's suggestion, this program was created in 1979, with the goal of teaching 16 and 17 year old students in all the Spanish speaking countries, including Brazil and Portugal, the foundations of the Iberian-American commonwealth of nations. The Ruta Quetzal BBVA is a combination of studies and adventure. The journey offers a wide program of academic activities, including an academic course designed by the Complutense University of Madrid. Students from 43 countries will participate in the 2001 Ruta Quetzal.