Resource Library
Welcome to Re-Imagining Migration's comprehensive resource collection, featuring over 500 carefully curated materials designed to transform how schools and educators approach migration, inclusion, and belonging. Whether you're developing curriculum, creating inclusive learning environments, leading professional development, or working to support immigrant-origin students, our library offers resources and guidance for every aspect of building migration-responsive educational communities.
Types of Resources
Lessons
Lesson plans, student activities, and discussion guides ready for immediate use
Planning
Tools
Frameworks and guides to help you integrate migration themes into your existing curriculum
Articles/
Research
Hand-picked articles and high-quality research to bring topics to life.
Study
Guides &
Collections
Curated sets of resources organized around specific themes or learning objectives
Practical strategies for creating inclusive, engaging learning environments
Video
Resources
Online videos and streaming content to depict migration stories.
Results
Explore Your Community’s Migration Stories
Students will become “story explorers” to discover both visible and invisible migration stories in their community using structured observation and thinking routines. The lesson works in…
US History Primary Source Collection
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Paper Trails: Tracing Migration Through Family Documentation
A Collaboration between Ancestry Classroom, Donna M. Neary, and Re-Imagining Migration Every family has migration stories. Some are told proudly across generations. Others are whispered carefully,…
Making Americans: A US History Lesson Series
This fifteen-part lesson series explores the pivotal moments, landmark cases, and competing philosophies that have shaped immigrant education in America. Written by Jessica Lander, author of…
From Trinidad to Brooklyn: Stories of Resilience
From Trinidad to Brooklyn: Stories of Resilience A Partnership Between Re-Imagining Migration and Documented About This Partnership Re-Imagining Migration has partnered with Documented, a nonprofit independent…
7 Levers for Building Belonging in Schools
Create inclusive learning environments where every student thrives When immigrant-origin students feel they belong, academic, social, and civic success follows. Our research-based 7-Step approach provides educators…
Constitutional Protections and Immigration Status
The question of who is protected by the United States Constitution has been debated throughout our nation’s history. Recent debates about immigration have brought this question…
Understanding Immigrant Experiences Through Found Poetry
This lesson uses primary sources from immigrants to the U.S. writing between 1881-1940, however, it can be easily adapted for other migration stories in different time…
Migration Narratives: Analyzing How Common Narratives Shape Immigration Stories
Students learn to recognize narrative frameworks in immigration journalism and analyze whose voices are centered or missing. At-a-glance: Materials Needed: News articles (curated or student-selected), chart…
Moving Stories: The Path Forward
Developed by the New York City Public Schools, The Moving Stories Unit – The Path Forward is a curriculum designed to engage 11th- and 12th-grade high school students…