Re-Imagining Migration

BELONG: A Practice Organizer for Building Belonging Schools shape whether students feel they matter. This free planning tool helps educators build belonging through six research-informed practices.

Schools are where young people learn not just academics, but also whether they matter.

BELONG is a 6 research-informed practice that translates commitment to inclusion into concrete action.

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Belonging Organizational Assesment Tool Assess how well your school or organization builds belonging for immigrant-origin youth. A practical tool for teams to identify priorities and act.

Is belonging embedded in your school culture, or just scattered across individual classrooms?

This assessment tool helps administrators evaluate practice across 7 focus areas and develop action plans.

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Beyond Protection: An Administrator’s Guide to Building Belonging for Immigrant-Origin Students A guide for K-12 administrators to move beyond crisis response and build schools where immigrant-origin students—and all students—truly belong.

For administrators: Emergency plans are necessary, but not sufficient.

This guide helps K-12 leaders move from crisis response to building lasting belonging infrastructure.

When schools serve immigrant-origin students well, they serve all students well.

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Constitutional Protections & Immigration Status Explore the constitutional protections for non-citizens in the U.S. through a civics lesson, analyzing Supreme Court cases to understand immigration rights.

Take a look at our resource: Constitutional Protections & Immigrant Status

Students explore who is protected by the U.S. Constitution through Supreme Court cases and evidence.

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Supporting Students in Crisis This guide, based on an interview with Dr. Maryam Kia Keating, provides trauma-informed, relationship - centered classroom-tested strategies for teachers.

Students are in crisis. Educators need support NOW.

We created FREE resources with trauma expert Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating– concrete strategies you can use today.

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Tonight at 7pm ET! Module 6 of the Training as Action series.

Intersectional Democracy: Race and Migration

Adam Strom & Meisha Lamb-bell explore how systemic inequalities shape democratic participation and strategies to center marginalized voices.

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Paper Trails: Tracing Migration Through Family Documentation This collection of lessons invites students to become genealogical detectives, tracing individual migration journeys through primary documents

Paper Trails Part 2: Jane Bushyhead (1838)📜

A Cherokee woman who survived the Trail of Tears. Her story reveals how Indigenous peoples rebuilt communities despite systematic erasure.

Students get to analyze primary sources.

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Halfway through the school year, and educators are showing up for their students in powerful ways.

Here are the statistics based on our website:
✅35,000 educators reached
✅~2.6M students impacted
✅9 interactions per educator

Thank you for helping us reach millions of students!

Paper Trails: Tracing Migration Through Family Documentation This collection of lessons invites students to become genealogical detectives, tracing individual migration journeys through primary documents

We are excited to introduce Paper Trails! Created with Ancestry Classroom and Donna M. Neary, this new series uses family documents to explore migration across three centuries of U.S. history. Paper Trails helps students see migration as a lived experience, not just history. FREE Download here!

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.

Session 2 of our multi-session Workshop Series with Facing History is tomorrow, Jan 14th. This session focuses on assessing and strengthening belonging in schools.

Learn more and register through the link!

When Immigration Policy Collides With Schools, Students and the Community Suffer Strom: In this age of fear, young people from immigrant families need to know if they are truly being accepted in their school or merely accommodated.

We all witnessed the events at Minneapolis' Roosevelt High School. This is at the heart of our work.

Our ED Adam Strom in @the74.bsky.social :New research shows 70% of principals report students from immigrant families expressing fear, 64% report students missing school.

Start the year by teaching migration with depth, empathy, and care. This reflection tool helps educators rethink how migration stories are represented in the classroom.

A meaningful way to start the year.

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Minneapolis Schools Shut Down for 2 Days in Wake of ICE Clashes, Fatal Shooting After a 37-year-old woman was shot dead, armed Border Patrol agents swarmed a high school, reportedly cuffing and tear gassing students and staff.

When schools become sites of fear instead of belonging, we all must ask: what will we do to keep students safe? Our ED Adam Strom spoke to The 74 about the national implications of this week's events in Minneapolis. www.the74million.org/article/minn...

What a high note to end the year! 2 of our resources were recognized in AFT’s @sharemylesson.bsky.social 2025 Favorites.

Grateful to support educators with tools that help immigrant youth learn, feel safe, and belong.

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Big News. RIM is a 2025 New Pluralists grantee. We will prototype a coordination hub that connects migration research with public-facing practice across democracy, cultural, belonging, and education sectors. Stay tuned!

During the NCSS, we highlighted, along with our partner educators, how primary sources help students connect and belong. One reminder stayed with many of us.

“Everybody belongs, everybody has a story.” – RIM Fellow, Donna Neary

Teachers can lift up the voices and strengths of immigrant students. Apply to this paid @tcfdotorg.bsky.social fellowship and learn how!
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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:
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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/