My Student Yamato’s Story
The story of a star high school basketball player detained by ICE.
Immigration/Migration/Citizenship
Treating Students with Cariño
A mother and education professor writes a letter to teachers who work in immigrant communities about what is needed during Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown.
Building a Space to Belong
An after-school educator constructs a classroom where new immigrants feel safe and comfortable.
Teaching “Mexican Repatriation”:
A 5th-grade teacher engages students in a unit on the forced deportation of 2 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression.
Grounding in Our Roots: Preserving Family History Through Migration Narratives
A high school language arts teacher writes about the power of students interviewing family and friends to develop migration narratives.
Teaching While Undocumented
Two professors document the struggles of undocumented teachers and offer ways educators, schools, and policymakers can better support them.
Embracing Asylum-Seeking Students and Their Families
A 4th- and 5th-grade bilingual teacher details how the practice of home visits helped him connect with migrant students and families who were bused from Texas to New York.
“Our Folks Were Badass!”
Four Asian American middle school students connect and grow during the pandemic through a virtual book club focused on Asian American history and literature.
¡Sí, se puede!
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Sin Fronteras Boy
Fourth-grade English language learners use wikis to study border issues and gain literacy skills.
An Open Letter to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund from the Association of Raza Educators
The Association of Raza Educators implores you: open your scholarships to all students of Hispanic descent regardless of citizenship.
Putting a Human Face on the Immigration Debate
For those of us working with immigrant populations, we have in our students living examples that we can use to bring the immigration issue to the forefront and teach all of our students.
You’re Asian, How Could You Fail Math?
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Students Galvanize for Immigrant Rights
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Strawberry Fields Forever?
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Honor Their Names
Students’ names are the first thing teachers know about the young people who enter our classrooms; they can signal country of origin, gender, language. Students’ names provide the first moment when a teacher can demonstrate their warmth and humanity, their commitment to seeing and welcoming students’ languages and cultures into the classroom.
Children Deserve Classrooms, Not Cages
The same mid-February weekend that Trump declared his manufactured emergency, I traveled to El Paso on behalf of the Massachusetts Teachers Association to take part in a “Teach-In for Freedom” organized by Teachers Against Child Detention. This event, among other demands, “called on the U.S. government to end the detention and criminalization of immigrant children and their families.”
“We Did What Had to Be Done”
I worked with ArtXpress — a program for teens through the Milwaukee Art Museum — as an intern for three weeks over the summer. Our mission was to choose a […]
Welcome Poems Trump Hate
A teacher creates a welcome poems lesson to celebrate the diversity of students — and with students.
My First Year as a Teacher of Color
A teacher of color writes about obstacles he faced during his first year in the classroom and the support he received — and did not receive — from other teachers and administrators.
Deportations on Trial
A social studies teacher describes the role play trial she developed around a largely forgotten period: when during the Great Depression the United States deported thousands of Mexican American families.
The Importance of Goodbye
A high school teacher explores how the dynamics of a classroom can change when a student leaves and what the effects can be on that student, the other students, and the teacher.
Shock-Doctrine Schooling in Haiti
Immediately after an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, corporations swooped in to capitalize on the destruction and to privatize public enterprises. Hagopian explores how disaster capitalism hit the education system and what the effects were on students and families.
“Love Is Shining in My Heart for You, Dear Haiti”
“Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world.” That’s the only thing this Haitian American teacher remembers being taught in school about her family’s country of origin. She calls for a revolution in how educators teach Haiti.
Sorry Not Sorry
A high school teacher uses the #MeToo movement and students’ own experiences with apologies to interrogate the government’s 1993 apology to Native Hawaiians for the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i.