Understanding and valuing your immigrant students’ lives and cultures can help foster a sense of belonging, ensure that all students feel respected and increase openness to learning. The ILC Public Education Institute has compiled these resources to help you develop and maintain a culturally responsive, asset-based teaching practice.
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Diversity and Culturally Responsive Teaching
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2024 Immigrant Student Success Conference Toolkit
Resources and strategies from the 2024 Immigrant Student Success conference
2023 Immigrant Student Success Toolkit
Resources and strategies from the 2023 Immigrant Student Success conference
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.
Best 15 Books about Immigration for Students
Recommended books to diversify your classroom library or summer reading list with stories of the immigrant experience
Sociology of Immigration, Part 1
Classic sociological frameworks and theories for understanding what happens when people come to a new society
2022 Immigrant Student Success Toolkit
Resources and highlights from the 2022 Immigrant Student Success conference
Sociology of Immigration, Part 2
Sociological frameworks for immigration and research about Latino school experiences
Three Things Teachers Can Do To Support Immigrant Students
Tips, strategies and links to resources for educators who would like to better support their immigrant students
Drawing Support: Activities for Children to Support Immigrants and Essential Workers
Coloring pages and discussion starters to guide conversations with children about newcomers and the COVID-19 pandemic
Five Things Teachers Can Do to Support Immigrant Students (2020 Immigrant Student Success Toolkit)
Toolkit for supporting immigrant students, from strategies for addressing trauma to telling stories to build knowledge
Developing Critical Consciousness: Five Things Teachers Can Do
Fifteen minute video on identifying forms of oppression in the classroom and taking action to create a more equitable space
Creating Welcoming Classrooms: How Understanding the Concept of Implicit Bias Can Strengthen Your Teaching
Introduction to implicit bias, strategies for combatting it in the classroom, and links to videos and resources for learning more
Professional Development Module: Immigration in Elementary Schools
Develop stronger relationships with immigrant students and families, use literature to teach about immigration, and more
Building Diverse, Culturally Responsive Text Sets
Guide to developing a collection of culturally responsive books about immigration, with examples
Data: Multicultural Picture Books
Live data charts examining the disparities in representation of BIPOC in current multicultural children's picture books.
Professional Development Module: Immigration in Secondary Schools
Create a supportive school environment, learn federal and NY state's college access and financial aid policies, facilitate youth empowerment activities
Professional Development Module: Refugees and Immigrants in Schools
Learn about refugees, engage families, identify and assist students needing support from traumatic experiences, storytelling and more
Professional Development Module: Key Immigration Issues
Professional development module helping educators understand contemporary immigration policies and issues
Welcoming Week Toolkit
Toolkit designed for adult educators who are interested in building more inclusive classrooms and communities
Learning For Justice: Immigration
Tell complex stories about immigration and find strategies for serving immigrant students and families