The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and in collaboration with the Institute of Oral History (IOH) and Center for Inter-American and Border Studies (CIBS), non-profit research and education centers at UTEP, propose a residential Summer Institute for School Teachers from July 20th to August 3rd, 2025. Building on the successful participation for the in-person 2017, 2019, and 2023 sessions, while virtually in 2021 Summer Institute for School Teachers titled Tales from the Chihuahuan Desert: Borderlands Narratives about Identity and Binationalism, the proposed 2025 Summer Institute will provide 25 secondary school teachers of art, language arts, sciences, social studies/history, and world languages in grades 6-12 with two weeks of intense, guided exploration of borderlands narratives from the Chihuahuan Desert-a culturally and politically significant region for instructional consideration and critical research encompassing 139,000 square miles across several Mexican states and parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.