Educators
Educators shape whether young people feel known, valued and connected, in classrooms, libraries, museums, after-school programs and early-childhood settings. We give you free resources, learning opportunities and a network of peers, so migration becomes part of the shared story you teach and belonging becomes part of how your setting runs.
Discover free resources on our learning commons
Go as deep as you choose
Start with one lesson, tool or story. Decide what to share with others.
- Discover. Find a lesson, a unit or a story in the Belonging Learning Commons.
- Try. Use a tool or join a workshop or webinar: the planning app, the Belonging Audit or a Moving Stories unit.
- Commit. Build the practice into your teaching or program.
- Share. Bring the work to a colleague, a team or a faculty meeting.
- Lead. Apply to the Belonging Ecosystems Fellowship and help your school or community carry the work on.
Below are a few ideas to get started
Teach about migration. Ready-to-teach lessons and complete units that help students understand migration as a shared human story, past and present. Start with the Moving Stories units: five project-based, standards-aligned units for grades 3 through 12, built from RIM resources by Joel Troge and his team in the NYC Public Schools’ Office of Multilingual Learners. They are free to use in any school. Each unit invites every student to explore their own family’s story, whether or not they have recently arrived.
More in the Belonging Learning Commons: More than 500 lessons, planning tools, literature guides and primary sources, searchable by grade level and topic, plus workshops and webinars on teaching about migration and building belonging with immigrant-origin students and their peers.
Planning app: An AI planning partner to design lessons, build connections in your classroom, engage families, and plan professional learning. The app is hosted on Playlab.
Student School Belonging Audit. A student-led tool for mapping where belonging holds and where it breaks down in your school or program. Students present what they find to the adults who can act on it. To talk through the results together, try See, Feel, Think, Wonder, a routine from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, developed through its work with Re-Imagining Migration.
Lead beyond your classroom
The Belonging Ecosystems Fellowship is a free, selective, year-long program for educators ready to build belonging across their school and community. With a cohort of peers from across the country, fellows start with what exists in their community, change the norms by designing and testing a response with students, families and partners, and prepare others to carry the work on.
- A middle school in the Southeast. A school-wide, student-led initiative, coordinated with the principal, in which students designed belonging lessons and a toolkit for newly arrived students.
- An alternative high school in the Midwest. Multilingual teens became literacy leaders and authors for younger students.
- A rural high school in the Pacific. Student journalism became a bridge to community stories.
For all inquiries about our customized professional learning programs, please contact us.