Educator Spotlight: Teaching the Arrival Welcome to the first of our occasional educator spotlights. In this series, we will highlight great teachers using great resources to explore issues related to migration with students. For this first post, we reached out to Sara Ahmed, the Author of the Heinemann Publishing book Upstanders: How to Engage […]
Names play an important role in our identities. The selection or creation of a name can be an important statement of independence or connection. Often they carry family or cultural stories. Stories about changing names are often associated with the experiences of migration. A new name for a new identity in a new land. Some newcomers […]
ConversationDoc is a series of short films about issues of race and identity. The filmmakers explain, When it comes to race relations in America, there has been no shortage of rhetoric, rage and accusations—but very little discussion. THE CONVERSATION is a series of short films that will serve as a platform for dialogue on the deep […]
By Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Carola Suarez-Orozco, and Adam Strom The young people entering schools this fall are the most diverse group of student’s in the history of the nation. One-quarter of them are of immigrant origin, from nearly every country in the world. That diversity is not limited to the United States, indeed, increasing numbers of […]
Welcome back to school. We know that some of you have already returned to the classroom while others will begin just after labor day. As you think about your students, your goals for the year, and the kind of learning environment you are hoping to create, we wanted to share a few resources that might be […]
The story of migration is the story of humankind. The genetic and paleontological record of human migration is at least 70,000 years old. Researchers know that all of us can trace our ancestry to Southern Africa, while some homo sapiens migrated across Africa and stayed, others ventured out to the Asia, Australia, Europe, and eventually to the Americas. This is our shared experience.
How do you teach about religious prejudice, bigotry, and hate? August 5, 2017, marks the fifth anniversal of the massacre at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The shooter, a 40-year old White Supremacist named Wade Michael Page, entered the gurdwara as they were preparing for a communal meal that had been scheduled for later […]
Introduction: Lessons and resources for teaching about Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus, and the Statue of Liberty. What is the relationship between Emma Lazarus’ poem The New Colossus to the Statue of Liberty? People can disagree about the symbolic connection between the statue, the poem, and immigration but the historical details matter. Poet Emma Lazarus […]
In the United States, immigrants and their children make up 27 percent of the US population. Twenty-five percent of school age children have an immigrant parent. These numbers have been growing rapidly. Additionally, recent estimates suggest that 5.1 million children under 18 have at least one parent with an unauthorized legal status in the […]