Our Work

Explore how CUNY-IIE Higher Education Faculty Fellows from across New York State have redesigned their courses through our semester-long program to integrate immigration and education across content areas and grade levels.

This guide provides counselors in middle and high schools with foundational knowledge, practical strategies, and actionable resources to support immigrant students and their families.

This guide provides higher education faculty with research and multimodal resources to enhance coursework for pre-service and in-service educators.

Through this module, educators will explore ways to create welcoming and nurturing learning environments grounded in culturally and linguistically responsive practices for our youngest immigrant-origin students and their families.

This module helps educators understand and apply translanguaging to support immigrant multilingual students, highlighting its benefits, and guiding teachers in planning effective translanguaging pedagogy.

This module equips educators with trauma-informed practices to support immigrant-origin students, fostering healing, social-emotional growth, and strategies for classroom care.

This module builds educators’ skills to support refugee students, dispel misconceptions, engage families, use asset-based practices, and foster empathy through powerful stories.

This module helps educators understand historical and current immigration issues and equips them to create welcoming schools that support immigrant students academically, linguistically, and emotionally.

This module supports secondary educators in fostering welcoming school cultures for immigrant students, expanding college and career access, and building empowering spaces for youth leadership.

This module helps educators strengthen relationships with immigrant students and families, teach immigration through children’s literature, and partner with communities to advocate for student needs.

This glossary is a supplemental resource to the CUNY-IIE educator modules or can serve as a stand alone document for terms related to immigration and education.

This video for PreK-12 educators describes registration guidelines and immigration laws, and offers suggestions for welcoming new students, including unaccompanied minors, responding to ICE, and advocacy strategies.

This video shows how educators can address refugee issues inside and outside the classroom. Learn steps districts can take to include immigrant families in their children's education, plus students' suggestions for teachers.

This video shows how a 1st/2nd grade bilingual teacher brings current immigration issues into her classroom through literature. Learn how schools can collaborate with immigrant advocacy organizations and connect with families.

This video highlights a high school Dream Team and shows how other schools can start their own club for immigrant justice. Learn how a school counselor ensures undocumented students have college access and funding info.

This guide was written and illustrated by the third-grade dual language bilingual students from PS 212Q. It highlights how teachers and administrators can welcome and integrate new immigrant students into the school community.

PS 212Q's Immigration and Education Leadership Team created 'How to Welcome a New Student,' a guide developed by third-graders for teachers. Students share practical tips on embracing and integrating immigrant newcomers into classrooms.

Elementary students at PS 340X worked with families to showcase artifacts from their immigrant backgrounds. See the My Story, Our Story gallery featuring 150+ cultural stories and family histories.

See how Children's School of Rochester's Family Literacy Program brings families into classrooms to compare education systems. Families discuss bilingual education and share their cultural perspectives.

Listen to three immigrant college immigrant students reflect on support from undocumented educators, their dreams of teaching, and fears tied to immigration barriers.

Listen to three immigrant college immigrant students reflect on support from undocumented educators, their dreams of teaching, and fears tied to immigration barriers.

This video follows two community educators who redefine teaching through innovative, nontraditional paths, showing how immigrants uplift students and lead with hope and commitment despite barriers.

In this video, NYSYLC youth share how they empower immigrant peers through leadership development, educational advancement, and self-expression.

The video highlights MinKwon Center’s Youth Empowerment Program, which serves as a space for immigrant youth to engage in advocacy and self-expression. 

Watch two DACA recipients share career paths and journeys, showing how resilience and education inspire dreams and build supportive communities.

This video uncovers the world of two immigrant artists, as they weave their distinct narratives of resilience and transformation. It showcases how art becomes a tool of self-expression, education and advocacy.

This report examines the barriers undocumented immigrants face in pursuing education degrees and teaching careers, drawing on focus groups and survey data to highlight key challenges in New York State.

This CUNY-IIE policy brief presents targeted recommendations that seek to foster equitable educational opportunities for all students, regardless of immigration status.

This 3-part guide helps undocumented students assess how supportive education programs are, offering a rubric, self-advocacy checklist, and key questions to inform their decisions.