Moving Stories: Building Connection and Belonging in Times of Division

A Research-Based Guide for K12 Educators

Updated for Fall 2025

This is a comprehensive curriculum guide and facilitator’s manual for educators implementing Moving Stories, designed to use migration narratives as a tool for building empathy, belonging, and civic connection in classrooms, while ensuring student safety, choice, and agency. We live in a time when immigration stories carry heightened risk and vulnerability. With that understanding, we have created a new question set that builds upon, and is inspired by the model of Carola Suárez-Orozco’s Moving Stories Project but does not ask about student and family migration histories directly.