Re-Imagining Migration

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 ...

📣 2026 National Belonging Ecosystem Fellowship — seeking nominations!

Nominate leaders in multilingual education, refugee integration, family engagement, after-school programming & more

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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…

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: 👇

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…

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👇

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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 💬🧠
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Did you know that 17% of Team USA has direct immigrant ties?
#Olympics #USATeam #Immigration #Migration

Paper Trails: Tracing Migration Through Family Documentation This collection of lessons invites students to become genealogical detectives, tracing individual migration journeys through primary documents

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.

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#TeachingHistory

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…

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

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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.

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?

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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!

Paper Trails: Tracing Migration Through Family Documentation This collection of lessons invites students to become genealogical detectives, tracing individual migration journeys through primary documents

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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...

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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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!

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

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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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:
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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!

Donate Re-Imagining Migration transforms educators and the educational ecosystem by leveraging schools, museums, and other educational spaces to promote belonging, knowledge, understanding…

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.

Teaching The Arrival This guide transforms Shaun Tan’s powerful wordless graphic novel into an interdisciplinary learning experience centered on belonging and migration.

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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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.

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.