Belonging is civic infrastructure.

Re-Imagining Migration builds the infrastructure of belonging inside and outside America's schools, creating environments where every young person is known, valued, and connected, and where migration is treated and taught as part of the shared human story.

We build belonging through the infrastructure we already have.

Belonging isn't an add-on program — it's a structural condition schools can design for, the way they design for literacy or safety. We don't start from scratch. We take the civic and educational infrastructure already in place and shift what it expects of itself.

Design for the young people farthest from belonging, and you lift the floor for everyone in the building: the infrastructure that helps an immigrant-origin student see herself as a civic actor is the same infrastructure that strengthens every classroom around her.

01 Start with what exists

The schools, families, and community institutions already in every young person's life.

02 Change the norms

Make belonging an expectation of how that infrastructure operates — not an add-on.

03 Promote dispositions

The capacity to live, learn, participate and build belonging across difference.

At the heart of Re-Imagining Migration are the resources we’ve thoughtfully
curated for real-time application of the framework for the students of today.

Resources by Keyword:

Resources by Grade Level:

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Partners & Collaborators

educators accessing our resources every year

educators from all 50 US States have attended our webinars and accessed our resources.

educators reached since 2018

users from 1400 different cities in the US and around the world

%

of those implementing Re-Imagining
Migration materials say the resources
improve their ability to foster belonging
among their students (Fall 2023 Survey)

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