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We help schools build belonging for all students in age of demographic change. #EduSky

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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
💭 Is there something from another culture that changed what you thought was possible? These prompts are inspired by the Re-Imagining Migration framework developed by @projectzerohgse.bsky.social reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Re-Imagining Migration's Executive Director, Adam Strom, has a new book out! 📚 Education and Democracy in an Age of Encounter: What Schools Must Do Now Order here: reimaginingmigration.org/education-an...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Did you know 1 in 4 school-age children in the U.S. comes from an immigrant family? Schools are where belonging is built or lost. The question is whether we build that capacity – or hope it happens on its own.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
When students can share their stories, they become advocates — for themselves and their communities.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Celebrate Diversity Month 📚The Arrival is a wordless graphic novel that places every reader in the experience of migration. @sarakahmed.bsky.social free classroom guide makes it ready to teach. Download here: reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Teaching The Arrival
This guide transforms Shaun Tan’s powerful wordless graphic novel into an interdisciplinary learning experience centered on belonging and migration.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month 📚 Frontera by @julioanta.bsky.social & @jacobysalcedo.bsky.social is a must-read graphic novel for classrooms exploring immigration, identity & belonging. Our free study guide — co-developed with @sarakahmed.bsky.social — is ready to use!
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Teaching the Graphic Novel Frontera
HarperCollins Publishers and Re-Imagining Migration invite you to learn about teaching the graphic novel Frontera written by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo. Julio and Jacoby speak with Author and…
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
St. Patrick's Day x Women's History Month☘️💜 In 1848, Hannah Curtis wrote a desperate letter from famine-ravaged Ireland to her brother in Philadelphia: "Don't leave me here to fall victim to the miseries that await." Read her letter: reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Hannah Curtis, writing from Queen’s County, Ireland to her brother John Curtis in Philadelphia. 1848.
Note: Most of the selection includes letters from Irish immigrants already in the US. This 1848 letter is from Hannah Curtis, an Irish woman, to her brother John, who emigrated from Queen’s County…
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What are immigrants thinking as they leave their home? The Emigrant's Farewell, a 19th-century Irish song, captures the heartbreak of leaving home for America. Primary source for your classroom: reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Primary Source: The Emigrant’s Farewell
What are emigrant’s thinking as they leave their home? Are they excited? Do they despair? What will they miss from home? Is there anything they are looking forward to on their journey or upon arrival…
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
📣 2026 National Belonging Ecosystem Fellowship — seeking nominations! Nominate leaders in multilingual education, refugee integration, family engagement, after-school programming & more docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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National Belonging Leaders Fellowship Nomination
Re-Imagining Migration | 2026 Cohort About the Fellowship We are seeking visionary and entrepreneurial leaders to join our National Belonging Ecosystem Fellowship — an incubator designed to build an ...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Women’s History Month 💜 Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, reflects on identity, borders, and belonging. Her work explores the tension many immigrant women face between honoring tradition and building their own path. Listen to the interview: 👇
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Classroom Resource: Sandra Cisneros, Identity, and the House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros often writes about working-class Latino life in America and has won many awards for her writing. She is best known for her book, “The House on Mango Street.” The themes in her writing…
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Six million people made a choice that changed America forever. Isabel Wilkerson explores this history in her TED Talk: The Great Migration and the Power of a Single Decision. Watch the full TED Talk and explore teaching ideas here👇 reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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The Great Migration and the Power of a Single Decision
Between the end of World War I and 1970, six million African African Americans left the South for the North and West. In the TED talk below scholar and author Isabel Wilkerson explores the power and…
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Share My Lesson @sharemylesson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Teach Plyler v. Doe (1982) with student-friendly context + primary-source excerpts 🏫📖 Explore the 14th Amendment, equal protection, and what “access to education” means today 💬🧠 bit.ly/4kNW6It Download your poster for FREE bit.ly/4aGUbks @aft.org @reimagining.bsky.social
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Did you know that 17% of Team USA has direct immigrant ties? #Olympics #USATeam #Immigration #Migration
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Paper Trails 5/6: Tyrus Wong (1920) A 10-year-old was interrogated at Angel Island. Students analyze America's first race-based immigration system and how families navigated exclusion. Download FREE: reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite... #TeachingHistory
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Paper Trails: Tracing Migration Through Family Documentation
This collection of lessons invites students to become genealogical detectives, tracing individual migration journeys through primary documents
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Making Americans Lesson 3: The Americanization Movement📚 Students explore how schools pressured immigrant families to abandon their cultures—and examine competing visions of integration through primary sources. Grades 8-12 | FREE Download reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Making Americans: A US History Lesson Series
This ten-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 the George…
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Final session of our workshop series with Facing History and Ourselves! Teaching Migration for Democratic Participation Feb 11 | 7-8pm EST | Virtual What skills do students need for civic participation in an era of demographic change? Register here: www.facinghistory.org/learning-eve...
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Re-Imagining Migration Workshop Series for Partner Schools Network Educators
Facilitated by Re-Imagining Migration staff, these workshops are designed to help educators build belonging for immigrant-origin students and their peers.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Schools are where young people learn not just academics, but also whether they matter. BELONG is a 6 research-informed practice that translates commitment to inclusion into concrete action. Download for FREE: reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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BELONG: A Practice Organizer for Building Belonging
Schools shape whether students feel they matter. This free planning tool helps educators build belonging through six research-informed practices.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Is belonging embedded in your school culture, or just scattered across individual classrooms? This assessment tool helps administrators evaluate practice across 7 focus areas and develop action plans. Download FREE: reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Belonging Organizational Assesment Tool
Assess how well your school or organization builds belonging for immigrant-origin youth. A practical tool for teams to identify priorities and act.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
For administrators: Emergency plans are necessary, but not sufficient. This guide helps K-12 leaders move from crisis response to building lasting belonging infrastructure. When schools serve immigrant-origin students well, they serve all students well. Download for FREE👇
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Beyond Protection: An Administrator’s Guide to Building Belonging for Immigrant-Origin Students
A guide for K-12 administrators to move beyond crisis response and build schools where immigrant-origin students—and all students—truly belong.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Take a look at our resource: Constitutional Protections & Immigrant Status Students explore who is protected by the U.S. Constitution through Supreme Court cases and evidence. Download for FREE; reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Constitutional Protections & Immigration Status
Explore the constitutional protections for non-citizens in the U.S. through a civics lesson, analyzing Supreme Court cases to understand immigration rights.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Students are in crisis. Educators need support NOW. We created FREE resources with trauma expert Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating– concrete strategies you can use today. reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Supporting Students in Crisis
This guide, based on an interview with Dr. Maryam Kia Keating, provides trauma-informed, relationship - centered classroom-tested strategies for teachers.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Tonight at 7pm ET! Module 6 of the Training as Action series. Intersectional Democracy: Race and Migration Adam Strom & Meisha Lamb-bell explore how systemic inequalities shape democratic participation and strategies to center marginalized voices. Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Paper Trails Part 2: Jane Bushyhead (1838)📜 A Cherokee woman who survived the Trail of Tears. Her story reveals how Indigenous peoples rebuilt communities despite systematic erasure. Students get to analyze primary sources. Download the full FREE collection here:
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Paper Trails: Tracing Migration Through Family Documentation
This collection of lessons invites students to become genealogical detectives, tracing individual migration journeys through primary documents
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Halfway through the school year, and educators are showing up for their students in powerful ways. Here are the statistics based on our website: ✅35,000 educators reached ✅~2.6M students impacted ✅9 interactions per educator Thank you for helping us reach millions of students!
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We are excited to introduce Paper Trails! Created with Ancestry Classroom and Donna M. Neary, this new series uses family documents to explore migration across three centuries of U.S. history. Paper Trails helps students see migration as a lived experience, not just history. FREE Download here!
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Paper Trails: Tracing Migration Through Family Documentation
This collection of lessons invites students to become genealogical detectives, tracing individual migration journeys through primary documents
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Session 2 of our multi-session Workshop Series with Facing History is tomorrow, Jan 14th. This session focuses on assessing and strengthening belonging in schools. Learn more and register through the link!
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Re-Imagining Migration Workshop Series for Partner Schools Network Educators
Facilitated by Re-Imagining Migration staff, these workshops are designed to help educators build belonging for immigrant-origin students and their peers.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We all witnessed the events at Minneapolis' Roosevelt High School. This is at the heart of our work. Our ED Adam Strom in @the74.bsky.social :New research shows 70% of principals report students from immigrant families expressing fear, 64% report students missing school.
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When Immigration Policy Collides With Schools, Students and the Community Suffer
Strom: In this age of fear, young people from immigrant families need to know if they are truly being accepted in their school or merely accommodated.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Start the year by teaching migration with depth, empathy, and care. This reflection tool helps educators rethink how migration stories are represented in the classroom. A meaningful way to start the year. reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
When schools become sites of fear instead of belonging, we all must ask: what will we do to keep students safe? Our ED Adam Strom spoke to The 74 about the national implications of this week's events in Minneapolis. www.the74million.org/article/minn...
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Minneapolis Schools Shut Down for 2 Days in Wake of ICE Clashes, Fatal Shooting
After a 37-year-old woman was shot dead, armed Border Patrol agents swarmed a high school, reportedly cuffing and tear gassing students and staff.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
What a high note to end the year! 2 of our resources were recognized in AFT’s @sharemylesson.bsky.social 2025 Favorites. Grateful to support educators with tools that help immigrant youth learn, feel safe, and belong. sharemylesson.com/collections/...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Big News. RIM is a 2025 New Pluralists grantee. We will prototype a coordination hub that connects migration research with public-facing practice across democracy, cultural, belonging, and education sectors. Stay tuned!
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
During the NCSS, we highlighted, along with our partner educators, how primary sources help students connect and belong. One reminder stayed with many of us. “Everybody belongs, everybody has a story.” – RIM Fellow, Donna Neary
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Teachers can lift up the voices and strengths of immigrant students. Apply to this paid @tcfdotorg.bsky.social fellowship and learn how! #immigrantstudents #teacherleadership bit.ly/EVENFellows2...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This upcoming weekend, we’re leading two sessions at the NCSS Annual Conference in DC on migration, civic agency, and community building in the classroom. Friday, Dec. 5, 9AM EST Saturday, Dec. 6, 2:50PM EST Register here: www.socialstudies.org/conference?u...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We joined educators at the 2025 @ncte.org Convention in Denver. Meisha Lamb-Bell and Jessica Lander piloted our new Educators’ Guide and Student Study Guide. Pre-filled guides are coming soon, starting with The Great Gatsby!
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In a time of controversy and crisis, we chose courage. We expanded our team, strengthened our resources, and supported schools in moments of fear. Now, we aim to reach 24 million students in the next three years. Your Giving Tuesday support will help us get there. Every penny counts.
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Re-Imagining Migration transforms educators and the educational ecosystem by leveraging schools, museums, and other educational spaces to promote belonging, knowledge, understanding…
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Explore our Educator Guide for Shaun Tan’s The Arrival. It supports lessons on migration, identity, and belonging through visual analysis and student choice. A meaningful resource to bring into your classroom. reimaginingmigration.org/resource-ite...
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Teaching The Arrival
This guide transforms Shaun Tan’s powerful wordless graphic novel into an interdisciplinary learning experience centered on belonging and migration.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Stories connect us, even in divided times. Our fourth fall resource, Moving Stories, helps educators use migration narratives to strengthen belonging while keeping student well-being at the center.
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Moving Stories: Building Connection and Belonging in Times of Division
A trauma-informed curriculum guide for using migration narratives to build classroom empathy and belonging while protecting student safety.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We’re partnering with Facing History & Ourselves for a three-session Re-Imagining Migration Workshop Series that helps educators build belonging for immigrant-origin students and their peers. Learn more and register through the link!
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Re-Imagining Migration Workshop Series for Partner Schools Network Educators
Facilitated by Re-Imagining Migration staff, these workshops are designed to help educators build belonging for immigrant-origin students and their peers.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We’re happy to share that Sara K. Ahmed has joined our team as Director of Curriculum! She created our educator guide for the Arrival and brings deep experience in helping classrooms explore identity, migration, and belonging. We’re grateful to have her on the team!
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Revere High School’s Welcome Club joined Re-Imagining Migration for a day-long leadership training in Boston. Students strengthened their skills, reflected on belonging, and created an action plan to support new students at RHS. Read the full story here: www.reverek12.org/apps/news/ar...
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We're proud to share that Re-Imagining Migration earned the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency, Candid's highest honor. We remain committed to transparency, accountability, and creating belonging-centered learning environments for all youth.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to honor indigenous histories. Use this time to bring these stories into the classroom with our growing collection of resources, lessons, and indigenous voices.
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Indigenous Peoples Resource Collection
This resource collection is a work in progress with resources for teaching about the impact of migration on indigenous communities in the US.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Making Americans Educator Guide helps teachers build empathy, deepen understanding, and foster belonging across school communities. We encourage you to host an all-staff read on Plyler v. Doe and start the conversation.
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Educators Guide for Making Americans
This educator guide provides essential tools for understanding and teaching the Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which established every child’s constitutional right to public education.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Election Day reminds us that civic engagement goes beyond the polls. Help your students take action. Start a Belonging Alliance Club and build belonging in your school community!
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Introducing Belonging Alliances:
Re-Imagining Migration invites schools and students to develop belonging alliance clubs to strengthen alliances across differences.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
How can schools support immigrant students during times of crisis? Join NABE + leaders from AFT, IDRA, ImmSchools, WIABE & Re-Imagining Migration (incl. Adam Strom) for Prepared, Protected, Empowered. 🗓 Nov 5 | 2PM PT / 5PM ET 🔗 Register now: nabe.org/advocacy-days/
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Introducing the Re-Imagining Migration Coaching App, an AI-powered tool that helps educators create classrooms where every student feels they belong. Now in BETA, it offers personalized guidance to design lessons, support newcomers, and foster inclusion across school communities.
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Re-Imagining Migration Coaching App
This app offers guidance to help integrate the Re-Imagining Migration’s approach into curriculum, professional learning experiences, and learning community.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Safe classrooms build connection and trust. Our third Back-to-School resource, “Supporting Immigrant Students,” features insights from Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating to help teachers create trauma-informed spaces that foster care, stability, and belonging for immigrant-origin students. Check it out!
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Trauma informed, Relationship Centered Educational Strategies
This guide, based on an interview with Dr. Maryam Kia Keating, provides trauma-informed, relationship - centered classroom-tested strategies for teachers.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In 1982, Plyler v. Doe affirmed every child’s right to an education. Making Americans: Plyler v. Doe and Opening the School Door shares that story, with an Educator Guide by RIM to help teachers bring it to life. Out today, Oct. 28, from @beaconpress.bsky.social #PlylerVDoe #EducationIsARight
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Educators Guide for Making Americans
This educator guide provides essential tools for understanding and teaching the Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which established every child’s constitutional right to public education.
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Re-Imagining Migration @reimagining.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
What is the relationship between reading, imagination, and hope? The recent Windows, Mirrors, and Migration webinar explored how literature can build empathy, belonging, and hope in classrooms. Belonging comes first. Academic success follows. @leeandlow.bsky.social & The Immigrant Learning Center
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Re-Imagining Migration Literature Curriculum Resource Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support educators in integrating themes of migration, belonging, identity, & community into English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum.
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