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

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December 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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!
December 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Teachers can lift up the voices and strengths of immigrant students. Apply to this paid @tcfdotorg.bsky.social fellowship and learn how!
#immigrantstudents #teacherleadership
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December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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...
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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!
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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.

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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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November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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.
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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November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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!
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.
www.facinghistory.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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!
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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...
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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.
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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.
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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November 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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.
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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November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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!
Introducing Belonging Alliances:
Re-Imagining Migration invites schools and students to develop belonging alliance clubs to strengthen alliances across differences.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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/
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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.
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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October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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!
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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October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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
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.
reimaginingmigration.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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
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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October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
📣Attention Teachers!
Join us for a FREE Webinar to explore strategies and tools that help ELA teachers bring migration, identity, and belonging into their classrooms.

📅 October 22, 2025
🕓 4:00-5:00 PM ET
🖥️ On Zoom

Click the link to sign up!

@leeandlow.bsky.social & The Immigrant Learning Center
Windows, Mirrors and Migration: Tackling the Literacy Crisis and Building Empathy Through Literature
A number of factors can lower immigrant family engagement in their student's success. This webinar will go over strategies to improve that.
www.ilctr.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1/ Every community has migration stories—some visible, some hidden.
✨ Resource #2 in our Back-to-School Roundup: Explore Your Community’s Migration Stories. A hands-on lesson for grades 5–8 to uncover both told & untold narratives.

📚 Full roundup: reimaginingmigration.org/explore-your...
Explore Your Community’s Migration Stories
Students explore community migration stories through mapping activities, discovering visible and invisible narratives in their neighborhoods.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
As sponsors of #WelcomingWeek2025, we’ve pulled together 6 standout resources for community leaders, educators & students.
From lesson plans to policy guides, this Back-to-School Roundup is built to strengthen belonging & resilience.
📚 Explore here: reimaginingmigration.org/back-to-scho...
Back to School: Fall Resource Roundup
As sponsors of Welcoming Week 2025, we’ve pulled together a collection of six standout resources to support community leaders, educators, and students this fall. With a new school year underway…
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September 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
📍 Tulsa, OK
We joined our partners at Welcoming America at their kick off for #WelcomingWeek2025!
We’re proud to be sponsors and to stand with communities re-imagining migration every day.

#ReImaginingMigration
September 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM