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For educators at all levels, from kindergarten through adult students, this Educator Resource Hub from The ILC Public Education Institute offers a carefully curated collection of resources to help you support your foreign-born students and educate all students about U.S. immigration.

You can browse or search by grade level and keywords. Whether you are teaching about immigration or creating a welcoming environment for your immigrant students and their families, the topics below have you covered.

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1. Teaching Immigration Lessons and Resources

Lesson plans, curricular units and resources to help you incorporate immigration into your existing curriculum.

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2. ESOL/EL/ML Resources

Lessons, webinars, blogs and more for teachers of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), English learner (EL) and multilingual learner (ML) students.

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3. USCIS Citizenship Application, Practice Test and Interview Resources

Resources to help prepare for the USCIS Citizenship application, practice test and interview.

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4. Immigrant and Immigration Stories

Videos and written accounts by immigrants past and present, strategies for eliciting stories from your students, and opportunities to share your story with others.

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5. Immigrant Trauma and Mental Health

Articles, videos and other resources to help address immigrant trauma, stress and mental health.

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6. Diversity and Culturally Responsive Teaching

Resources to help you develop and maintain a culturally responsive, asset-based teaching practice.

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7. Family and Parental Engagement

Resources to create asset-based, authentic partnerships with your immigrant students’ parents and families.

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8. U.S. Immigration Data and Policy

Up-to-date fact sheets, data hubs, explainers for students and more featuring immigration data and policy.

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9. Teaching Refugee, Unaccompanied Minor and SLIFE Students

Resources to recognize the challenges and support the strengths of refugees, unaccompanied minors and students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) in the classroom.

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10. Resources for Undocumented and DACA Students

Information about undocumented students’ rights, emergency planning guides, lists of scholarships and guides for teachers.

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Refugees and Unaccompanied Minors

Supporting Unaccompanied Minors in the Classroom

Blog post on welcoming unaccompanied minors into your classroom, using a model that identifies four "core stressors" these migrants face

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

2024 Immigrant Student Success Conference Toolkit

Resources and strategies from the 2024 Immigrant Student Success conference

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Teaching Immigration Lesson Plans and Resources

Teaching U.S. Immigration Series

Lessons and resources to incorporate immigration and immigrant stories into commonly taught U.S. history topics.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

2023 Immigrant Student Success Toolkit

Resources and strategies from the 2023 Immigrant Student Success conference

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

Community Across Cultures Book Guides

Teacher guides for read alouds about the newcomer experience, immigration and world cultures, tagged by country, theme, level and more.

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Family Engagement

How to Cultivate Immigrant Parents Leadership Skills and How Immigration Impacts Our Schools

An expert in immigrant education explains principles and strategies of immigrant family engagement

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Immigrant Stories

Use Immigration Narratives to Build a Sense of Belonging in Classrooms

Blog post on thoughtfully engaging with your students' immigration stories in the classroom

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Family Engagement

Engage Families to Support Immigrant Students

Blog post on involving and engaging with immigrant parents and families in a culturally responsive manner

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Data and Policy

Immigration Quick Statistics and Fact Sheets

Collections of data on immigrants in the United States, Massachusetts and Greater Boston

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ESOL Resource

English for Beginners

Series of English lesson videos for adult ESOL students

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Citizenship

Applying for Citizenship

Series of short videos helping people to understand the N-400 citizenship form

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Citizenship

Preparing for the Citizenship Civics Exam

Series of short videos for people studying to take the citizenship civics exam

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Immigrant Stories

Thirteen Famous Asian and Pacific Islander Immigrants

Immigrants from Asia and Pacific Islands are a diverse collection of more than 130 ethnic groups from a geographic area that spans 16 million square miles. Their dreams and talents are as diverse…

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Culturally Responsive Teaching