Teacher Guides and Resources

Links and references

• (see organizations) What is Asylum fact sheet
• US Citizen Children Impacted by Immigration Enforcement

• Podcasts, documentaries and reports strives to raise awareness, trigger debate and promote positive change via non-partisan, independent journalism. Educate.
• Order 9066 (podcast) from APM Reports and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History 8 episodes (with art and music “bonuses”) dealing with the Executive Order for “relocation” camps imprisoning some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry -2/3 were American citizens
• (12/3/18) Hundreds of thousands of people could lose their legal status. One hopes to graduate with his college degree first
• (9/11/17) Shadow Class; College Dreamers in Trump’s America
• also see Plyer v. Doe: A Supreme Court case 35 years ago yields a supply of emboldened DACA students today
• (5/2/17) A public school that’s just for immigrants
• (3/21/17) Immigration enforcement has DACA students on edge
• (11/17/16) Fear, uncertainty for undocumented students

(1/30/18)

• Includes transcripts
• Newhour

Videos (Speaking Truth to Youth) and inspiring portraits with lesson plans

Pop-up guidebook

Article with examples in https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/artsbased-methods-foster-participatory-and-interactive-learningTimes Higher Education (THE)

great explanation of Jigsaw Technique by Edutopia

(2023) designed to promote dialogue in schools and communities by engendering deeper understanding and discussion to counter the myths and fears that negatively affect our learning institutions.

(BPL) “Scoring the Stacks” creative writing project (pdf). NY Public Library projects and resources.

A justice-oriented public education and community resource that highlights artistic expression, activism, and thinking that fosters a radical communal imagination.

K-12 resources for digital citizenship

Preserving Japanese American stories of the past for generations of tomorrow.

Non-profit organized by a high school junior to send letters to unaccompanied minors and children at the border of the US. Great engagement for children. Article on project: https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/education/article/greenwich-kimberly-palomino-immigration-shelters-18549744.php 1/1/24

see jigsaw technique: Boosting Student Belonging With the Jigsaw Technique,

Teacher resource library. Great downloadable resources

(2/17/22) Connecting the Past to the Present Using Oral History

(9/15/22) Teacher Resources for Hispanic Heritage Month

(10/21/22) How to read the News Like a Fact Checker: a Media Literacy Strategy

(10/21/22) Where Do We Get Our News and Why Does It matter?

Free downloads, like the Iceberg Diagram; guide for Enrique’s Journey

Report for America, Report for the World, podcasts, etc.

Great resources defining CRT and more

Indigenous Vision for a Sustainable Future resources, films of prayerful resistance - pipeline, music “Down in the River to Pray,” “No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong)

A slide show by A Long Talk Universe

• (2022) The Immigrant Resource Library - Immigrant research and information
• (2022) Resources for Undocumented and DACA students
• (7/23/21) Fostering Resilience Among Immigrant and Refugee Youth
• (2021) The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They're Wrong
• (2021) Immigrant Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
• (2021) Best 47 Books About Immigrants and Immigration for all ages
• (1/19/21) Quick Immigration Statistics: Massachusetts
• (12/18/20) Pandemic, Politics and the Future Webinar toolkit
• (11/18/20) Welcome to the New World by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan learning guide by Immigrant Learning Center (ILC) Grades 7-12
• Quick Immigration Statistics Greater Boston
• (7/22/20) Undocumented Immigrant Students
• (6/19/20) What Does it Mean to Be a Black Immigrant in the United States?
• (4/16/20) Cultivate Kindness: Activities for Children and Teens
• (4/7/20) Drawing Support: In-Home Activities for Children
• (2/1/20) see Educator Webinar and Resource Library
• (11/21/19) Strategic Conversations on immigration panel discussion
• (7/17/19) Strategies to Mitigate Immigrant Student Trauma
• Public Education Program, Institute for Immigration Research, Teaching Immigration Now: Current Events in the Classroom; English Language Program; Immigration and Crime; Immigration Taxes and Welfare; Immigrant Research and Information: Informing People Concerned About Immigration and Immigrants

(2013)

(Study) Qué esperamos del futuro?: Detención migratoria y alternativas a la detencion en las Americas

https://idcoalition.org/publication/informe_regional_americas_2017

(Formerly Teaching Tolerance) Resources, lesson plans

With video about Jane Sapp

K-12

Colleges & Universities

Build social and emotional skills, the classroom/school/community, more caring and equitable through restorative practices and brave conversations on race.

5/2/23 The Banana Boat Man! A Lesson on Harry Belafonte (immigration, music, and justice lesson plan)

(NPR) broadcast, news, podcast (also see Arts Resources)

10/28/22 Video interview and transcript on Science Friday of Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants

9/30/21 The Racist Legacy Of Early Immigration Law Is Still Alive Today

6/29/21 Yes, Immigration Courts Are Political scroll to podcast; update go to SEARCH, put in Immigration; Radiolab presents: Borders Trilogy (3/23/18 to 10/18/20)

9/22/20 (Whistleblower Nurse in ICE Jail Alleges Forced Sterilization & Neglect Amid 8th COVID Death)

8/6/20 Ending 'Asylum As We Know It': Using Pandemic To Expel Migrants, Children At Border

7/13/20 Romeo & Juliet In Rwanda: How A Soap Opera Sought To Change A Nation

6/18/20 How DACA Has Transformed The Lives Of Dreamers — And Their Communities

8/15/19 ICE Raids In Mississippi Last Week Left Some Children Without Parents

6/28/18 (warning government ill equipped to reunite families – fresh air)

Codeswitch (2/28/18) A House Divided By Immigration Status

(many other resources)

(alt.latino Latinx Arts and Culture - music)

NewsLit Nation - A nonpartisan education nonprofit to advance the practice of news literacy, creating informed, more engaged, empowered individuals.

resource and education center that provides training and support toward meaningful social change

Includes transcripts and videos: Daily News Lessons from the PBS NewsHour Classroom (example: Native American history through one Wampanoag family’s journey for truth; (current immigration agenda – many articles and videos) Immigrant Nation and other films; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/; Understanding immigration reform Lesson Plan; “Will U.S.-Mexico deal reduce immigration? A report from 2 borders” 6/10/19;”WATCH: Trump’s family separation policy under scrutiny in House hearing”  2/6/19;  “Documenting Hate: Charlottesville”  (8/7/18); (Separated: “Children at the Border” Includes transcript (7/31/18) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/separated-children-at-the-border/transcript/; What constitutional rights do undocumented immigrants have? (6/25/18); “Child Labor Trafficking” 4/24/18; “Trafficked in America” (4/24/18);

“American Stories: Teens and Immigration” (1/30/18);  Why teachers are training themselves to be ‘dreamer’ allies; In the Mix: Teen immigrants; Newhour: How Schools are Dealing with Post-Election Fallout (11/11/16)

(articles, videos, photos, lessons)

• Digital Education Programs at the Pulitzer Center
• The 1619 Project Educational Materials Collection
• (2/8/22) Art Attacks
• 10/19/21 Moving Migrants: Examining Intersections of Climate, Migration, and Gender lesson
• Broken Border
• https://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/back-school-catching-world-26553 (also see Perla Trevizo lesson plans, videos, etc.)
• Videos: A Lost Generation: Learning about Family Migration from Indigenous Villages in Guatemala, 
• https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/lost-generation#quicktabs-project_content
• Migration and Refugees
• (4/5/19) The Dream Homes of Guatemalan Migrants
• Bringing Stories Home
• Between Borders: American Migrant Crisis (2015) under 25-minute video by filmmakers Brent and Craig Renaud documenting journey of unaccompanied minors traveling the dangerous 2000 miles journey from Honduras to US (some scenes may be inappropriate for students)
• Why They Flee: Understanding the Migration of Minors Lesson Plan

Youth arts organization, rooted in art therapy. At its core, RAW believes that all kids should be seen and heard and that everyone has a story to tell. Lynn, MA. Real to Reel Film School (video “Home”)

An initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education with articles, research, resources and curriculum for K-12 educators.

5/7/23 Pedagogies of Belonging Webinar Launch, PDF of book

2/25/21 Creating Change in Real Time

(2019) The Purposes of Refugee Education: Policy and Practice of Including Refugees in National Education Systems; Topics include: Resources for Educators; Integration and Belonging; Conflict Transformation; Globalization & Migration; Quality Education; blog

Free videos, lessons, and student activities

Immigration in the 1990s: Proposition 187, Vincent Chin and Asian American Civil Rights

Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for? a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. Other episodes on climate change, gender issues on Scene On Radio

Lesson exploring diverse concepts of home by Teaching Tolerance now Learning for Justice

Great resources, webinars and lesson plans - 2022 curated collection on equity and inclusion; Indigenous Peoples resources; Immigration

printmaking - Jane Kang Lawrence Pulitzer Center Fellowship project.

How do Native People and Nations Experience Belonging?

(see Teaching for Change) (multicultural and social justice books for children, YA)

Free download. one hundred people whom we consider movers and shakers of social justice as a broad base of historic and contemporary activists for student research projects. From Enchanted Circle Theater teacher resource library.

Many short videos for inspiration – example Robin Wall Kimmerer short video 6/8/21; also lesson plans

The Year in Stories: 2023, etc.

Infographics for Instructors

Lesson plans and different perspectives that can help aid education

Lots of activities and free courses, plus by Nadia Chaney, creative facilitation and mentorship

Develops documentary films and curriculum that challenge false historical narratives – teacher guides for Bounty & Dawnland & Dear Georgina (Indigenous materials) & Co-exist teacher’s guide about genocide, colonialism, othering, bullying, and reconciliation.

ÂS NUTAYUNEÂN: CHKUWABONAKIK AKONUTOMAKONOL (We Still Live Here: Dawnland Stories) 2022

• 3/14/19 Part of Us: A Data-Driven Look at Children of Immigrants (One-Quarter of US Children Are Children of Immigrants)
• 3/14/19 Visualizing Trends for Children of Immigrants
• Children of Immigrants Data Tool

• Free downloads of oral history curricula, Oral History Cookbook. Amplifying Unheard Voices (oral histories and accompanying lesson plans)
• Solito, Solita; Cocina y Cultura- Oral History Cookbook; Indigenous Narratives in the Classroom: VOW’s New Curriculum Specialist Suzanne Methot
• Oral History Resource Guide for ELL
• Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture (see Arts Resource List)

Advocacy for Human Rights in the Americas – (resources and fact sheets)

• (6/15/20) Beyond the Wall: Borders Should Not Be Barriers to Human Rights video; with the Sheller Center for Social Justice resources for attorneys representing asylum seekers from Central America: Annotated Table of Contents Project
• (10/22/18) Central American Caravan; advocacy for human rights.

(also see Service Organizations Resource List for more listings)

(2011) film by Anne Makepeace Wampanoag language revival trailer; short

Dawnland Teachers’ Guide (film and curriculum above) ÂS NUTAYUNEÂN: CHKUWABONAKIK AKONUTOMAKONOL (We Still Live Here: Dawnland Stories) 2022

To strengthen inclusive democracy so all people can live, love, work free from fear. Confronting White Nationalism in Schools.

Alternatives to Detention

Regional Office for Europe Immigration detention harms health long after release, alternatives should be used (short video), report

• (3/27/20) The Women Who Welcomed Immigrants
• (1/9/20) How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History
• (12/4/19) How Schools Can Sustain Students’ Cultures
• (9/5/19) How We Shut Down the Nation’s Largest Child Detention Center
• (8/2/19) The U.S. Owes Migrants More Than “Decriminalization:” Our policies have created the disasters from which they are fleeing
• (7/26/19) Indigenous People Demand an End to Detention on Stolen Lands
• (6/25/19) 20 Ways You Can Help Immigrants Now
• (5/24/19) A Visitor in My Homelands: Too African for the U.S. and Too American for Nigeria by Itoro Udofia
• (3/18/19) Border (In)Security Writing Lesson Plan writing competition
• (2/28/19) Border Wall Trumped by Art and Community
• (2/15/19) Trump’s National Emergency Crete a Real Border Crisis–for Families, Wildlife, Protected Lands
• (1/3/19) Let’s Talk About Migrant Caravans
• (12/19/18) Migrant Life at the US Border: 24 Hours in Photos
• (12/17/18) Grandmothers Bring Food and Comfort to Asylum-Seekers at Bus Stations
• (12/13/18) Why Hondurans See Migration as an Act of Civil Disobedience
• (12/4/18) Europe’s History With Refugees Has Something to Tell the US
• (11/15/18) Migrant Caravan
• (10/17/18) Climate change and staggering migration-refugee crisis–50 million by 2020–Science
• (8/8/18) economic and cultural impact of immigrant population in conservative Kansas
• (6/18/18) Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents
• (#82 Sanctuary Issue Summer 2017)
• (for teachers on DACA 2017)

• People’s History Artists for the Classroom
• Teaching materials on immigration
• Teach Climate Justice Campaign
• No Option Except Escape: Role Play on the struggles of climate refugees
• Bound for the Río Grande: Traitors or Martyrs
• La Guerra con México