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Supporting Students From Immigrant Families

After recent news and photographs from El Paso—of asylum-seeking families held in chain-link, barbed-wire pens—your immigrant students may be feeling afraid, and you may feel unsure how to support them. These resources recommend steps you can take inside and outside your classroom to address injustice and insist on the human dignity of all people, no matter where they're born.

  • Call to Action: All Children Deserve to Be Free
  • This Is Not a Drill
  • Toolkit for "Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff"
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Responding to the Mississippi ICE Raid

Yesterday, students were pulled from their first day of classes to say goodbye to undocumented parents and guardians arrested by ICE. Our thoughts are with educators and families across Mississippi and with those dealing with this trauma in the aftermath of anti-immigrant violence in El Paso. Yesterday’s raid was the largest single-state raid in U.S. history, but we know that these raids will continue. We hope these resources help you support your students and their families.

  • This Is Not a Drill
  • Toolkit for "This Is Not a Drill"
  • Educators Resist East Tennessee ICE Raid
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Si Se Puede

“In response to legislation that would have criminalized immigrants, thousands of high school students from across the country walked out of their classrooms and into history.”
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Learning for Justice Staff
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6-8 9-12
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Identity Diversity Justice Action
August 9, 2017
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Teaching Between Worlds

A couple of years ago a student approached me after history class. Avoiding eye contact, he trembled a bit before speaking. His voice was shaking. “I am sorry, teacher,” Armando began. “I could not finish my project. My parents were killed a couple days ago.”