Latinos in Action: Program challenges way students think - Utah

A pioneering program started by Mountain View High School assistant principal Jos Enriquez is not only enabling students to tutor young Latinos at Orem schools, for some it’s changing the way they think about Latino Americans.

Enriquez began Latinos in Action while he was a teacher and administrator at Timpview and Provo high schools. The program takes 25 to 30 bilingual Latino students and trains them as para educators, Enriquez said. Every other day, the students, wearing maroon Latinos in Action shirts, spend an hour at five elementary and two junior high schools in Orem to work with kids in groups and one-on-one.

Julieta Lattanzio, a Bruin senior originally from Argentina with a 3.7 GPA and a member of the National Honor Society, is planning to pursue a career as an accountant. She loves working with children and is tutoring a sixth-grader at Cherry Hill Elementary with his essay on Thomas Jefferson. Lattanzio said she has benefited as much from Latinos in Action as the children she tutors.”*

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