Re-Imagining Migration

Teachers can lift up the voices and strengths of immigrant students. Apply to this paid @tcfdotorg.bsky.social fellowship and learn how!
#immigrantstudents #teacherleadership
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This upcoming weekend, we’re leading two sessions at the NCSS Annual Conference in DC on migration, civic agency, and community building in the classroom.

Friday, Dec. 5, 9AM EST
Saturday, Dec. 6, 2:50PM EST

Register here:
www.socialstudies.org/conference?u...

We joined educators at the 2025 @ncte.org Convention in Denver. Meisha Lamb-Bell and Jessica Lander piloted our new Educators’ Guide and Student Study Guide. Pre-filled guides are coming soon, starting with The Great Gatsby!

Donate Re-Imagining Migration transforms educators and the educational ecosystem by leveraging schools, museums, and other educational spaces to promote belonging, knowledge, understanding…

In a time of controversy and crisis, we chose courage. We expanded our team, strengthened our resources, and supported schools in moments of fear. Now, we aim to reach 24 million students in the next three years. Your Giving Tuesday support will help us get there. Every penny counts.

Teaching The Arrival This guide transforms Shaun Tan’s powerful wordless graphic novel into an interdisciplinary learning experience centered on belonging and migration.

Explore our Educator Guide for Shaun Tan’s The Arrival.

It supports lessons on migration, identity, and belonging through visual analysis and student choice. A meaningful resource to bring into your classroom.

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Moving Stories: Building Connection and Belonging in Times of Division A trauma-informed curriculum guide for using migration narratives to build classroom empathy and belonging while protecting student safety.

Stories connect us, even in divided times. Our fourth fall resource, Moving Stories, helps educators use migration narratives to strengthen belonging while keeping student well-being at the center.

Re-Imagining Migration Workshop Series for Partner Schools Network Educators Facilitated by Re-Imagining Migration staff, these workshops are designed to help educators build belonging for immigrant-origin students and their peers.

We’re partnering with Facing History & Ourselves for a three-session Re-Imagining Migration Workshop Series that helps educators build belonging for immigrant-origin students and their peers.

Learn more and register through the link!

We’re happy to share that Sara K. Ahmed has joined our team as Director of Curriculum! She created our educator guide for the Arrival and brings deep experience in helping classrooms explore identity, migration, and belonging. We’re grateful to have her on the team!

Revere High School’s Welcome Club joined Re-Imagining Migration for a day-long leadership training in Boston. Students strengthened their skills, reflected on belonging, and created an action plan to support new students at RHS.

Read the full story here: www.reverek12.org/apps/news/ar...

We're proud to share that Re-Imagining Migration earned the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency, Candid's highest honor. We remain committed to transparency, accountability, and creating belonging-centered learning environments for all youth.

Indigenous Peoples Resource Collection This resource collection is a work in progress with resources for teaching about the impact of migration on indigenous communities in the US.

November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to honor indigenous histories.

Use this time to bring these stories into the classroom with our growing collection of resources, lessons, and indigenous voices.

Educators Guide for Making Americans This educator guide provides essential tools for understanding and teaching the Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which established every child’s constitutional right to public education.

The Making Americans Educator Guide helps teachers build empathy, deepen understanding, and foster belonging across school communities.

We encourage you to host an all-staff read on Plyler v. Doe and start the conversation.

Introducing Belonging Alliances: Re-Imagining Migration invites schools and students to develop belonging alliance clubs to strengthen alliances across differences.

Election Day reminds us that civic engagement goes beyond the polls.

Help your students take action. Start a Belonging Alliance Club and build belonging in your school community!

How can schools support immigrant students during times of crisis?

Join NABE + leaders from AFT, IDRA, ImmSchools, WIABE & Re-Imagining Migration (incl. Adam Strom) for Prepared, Protected, Empowered.

🗓 Nov 5 | 2PM PT / 5PM ET

🔗 Register now: nabe.org/advocacy-days/

Re-Imagining Migration Coaching App This app offers guidance to help integrate the Re-Imagining Migration’s approach into curriculum, professional learning experiences, and learning community.

Introducing the Re-Imagining Migration Coaching App, an AI-powered tool that helps educators create classrooms where every student feels they belong.

Now in BETA, it offers personalized guidance to design lessons, support newcomers, and foster inclusion across school communities.

Trauma informed, Relationship Centered Educational Strategies This guide, based on an interview with Dr. Maryam Kia Keating, provides trauma-informed, relationship - centered classroom-tested strategies for teachers.

Safe classrooms build connection and trust.

Our third Back-to-School resource, “Supporting Immigrant Students,” features insights from Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating to help teachers create trauma-informed spaces that foster care, stability, and belonging for immigrant-origin students.

Check it out!

Educators Guide for Making Americans This educator guide provides essential tools for understanding and teaching the Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which established every child’s constitutional right to public education.

In 1982, Plyler v. Doe affirmed every child’s right to an education.

Making Americans: Plyler v. Doe and Opening the School Door shares that story, with an Educator Guide by RIM to help teachers bring it to life.

Out today, Oct. 28, from @beaconpress.bsky.social

#PlylerVDoe #EducationIsARight

Re-Imagining Migration Literature Curriculum Resource Toolkit This toolkit is designed to support educators in integrating themes of migration, belonging, identity, & community into English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum.

What is the relationship between reading, imagination, and hope?

The recent Windows, Mirrors, and Migration webinar explored how literature can build empathy, belonging, and hope in classrooms.

Belonging comes first. Academic success follows.

@leeandlow.bsky.social & The Immigrant Learning Center

Windows, Mirrors and Migration: Tackling the Literacy Crisis and Building Empathy Through Literature A number of factors can lower immigrant family engagement in their student's success. This webinar will go over strategies to improve that.

📣Attention Teachers!
Join us for a FREE Webinar to explore strategies and tools that help ELA teachers bring migration, identity, and belonging into their classrooms.

📅 October 22, 2025
🕓 4:00-5:00 PM ET
🖥️ On Zoom

Click the link to sign up!

@leeandlow.bsky.social & The Immigrant Learning Center

2/ 🗺️ “Story explorers” in grades 5-8 use mapping & inquiry to uncover migration narratives in their neighborhoods.
That’s the focus of Explore Your Community’s Migration Stories, Resource #2 in our Back-to-School Roundup.

Explore Your Community’s Migration Stories Students explore community migration stories through mapping activities, discovering visible and invisible narratives in their neighborhoods.

1/ Every community has migration stories—some visible, some hidden.
✨ Resource #2 in our Back-to-School Roundup: Explore Your Community’s Migration Stories. A hands-on lesson for grades 5–8 to uncover both told & untold narratives.

📚 Full roundup: reimaginingmigration.org/explore-your...

Back to School: Fall Resource Roundup As sponsors of Welcoming Week 2025, we’ve pulled together a collection of six standout resources to support community leaders, educators, and students this fall. With a new school year underway…

As sponsors of #WelcomingWeek2025, we’ve pulled together 6 standout resources for community leaders, educators & students.
From lesson plans to policy guides, this Back-to-School Roundup is built to strengthen belonging & resilience.
📚 Explore here: reimaginingmigration.org/back-to-scho...

65 community leaders came together, from nonprofits, foundations, and local orgs, to celebrate belonging and inclusion. Across the U.S., there are 1,600+ Welcoming Week events reminding us that migration is a shared human story.

📍 Tulsa, OK
We joined our partners at Welcoming America at their kick off for #WelcomingWeek2025!
We’re proud to be sponsors and to stand with communities re-imagining migration every day.

#ReImaginingMigration

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Silence Is Not an Option: Why Immigrant Students Need an Active Welcome Now As schools reopen, immigrant students need more than silence—they need belonging. Learn how educators can create safe, inclusive learning environments.

Educators play a vital role in making schools safe and welcoming for every student. 💙

@sharemylesson.bsky.social & @reimagining.bsky.social share tools to help educators, parents & allies support immigrant students as they return to school: sharemylesson.com/blog/welcomi...

Silence Is Not an Option: Why Immigrant Students Need an Active Welcome Now As schools reopen, immigrant students need more than silence—they need belonging. Learn how educators can create safe, inclusive learning environments.

Every child deserves a safe, welcoming school—no matter where they come from or what language they speak. Check out these @sharemylesson.bsky.social + @reimagining.bsky.social resources for supporting immigrant students this school year: sharemylesson.com/blog/welcomi...

Read our executive director, Adam Strom's, latest back to school article 👇🏼

When your girl you met at @reimagining.bsky.social makes your work look and sound way better than you did….

We are proud of Jessica Lander for this wonderful piece in the Boston Globe about the rights of immigrant students. In such a short time, her work as a Senior Policy Fellow at Re-imagining Migration is helping us drive this work forward.