Teaching Moving Stories for Empathy & Connection
Moving Stories: An Educator’s Guide to Sharing Migration Narratives
What This Guide Is
This guide introduces educators to the Moving Stories project created by Carola Suárez-Orozco, offering practical teaching strategies for facilitating migration story sharing activities in the classroom. It provides a structured framework for helping students explore, share, and connect through personal and family migration experiences.
How It Will Help You
This resource equips teachers with:
- A ready-to-use protocol for guiding thoughtful migration story conversations
- Question sets designed to engage students and community members
- Strategies for creating a safe classroom environment where students feel comfortable sharing personal stories
- Tools for facilitating meaningful reflections in both small and large group settings
- Methods to help students identify the universal human connections in migration stories while honoring unique individual experiences
By implementing this guide, educators can foster deeper understanding between students from diverse backgrounds, helping them discover their shared humanity through the common thread of migration that runs through almost all American family histories—whether recent or generations past, across borders or within them, by choice or by force.