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Immigration in Secondary Schools
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Immigration in Secondary Schools

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.

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Report on State of Undocumented Educators in New York
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Report on State of Undocumented Educators in New York

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.

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Policy Brief: Enhancing Educational Equity for Immigrant Students In New York State
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Policy Brief: Enhancing Educational Equity for Immigrant Students 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.

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How To Welcome a New Student
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How To Welcome a New Student

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.

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Aspiring UndocuEducators’ Guide to Self-Advocacy
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Aspiring UndocuEducators’ Guide to Self-Advocacy

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.

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How To Create an Immigrant Liaison Position at Your School
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How To Create an Immigrant Liaison Position at Your School

This short guide supports school staff and communities in creating an immigrant liaison role, outlining key duties, funding tips, selection considerations, and insights from liaisons in the pilot program.

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A Framework for Immigrant Liaisons
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A Framework for Immigrant Liaisons

This guide outlines a pilot program developed by NYSYLC to create, fund and support immigrant liaison roles to support immigrant-origin students in K-12 schools.

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PK-12 Immigration Literature Guide
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PK-12 Immigration Literature Guide

This guide features 100 PK–12 books highlighting immigration stories, with summaries, discussion questions, and multimodal strategies to deepen understanding and foster meaningful classroom conversations.

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Immigration in Early Childhood Education
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Immigration in Early Childhood Education

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.

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Translanguaging for Multilingual Immigrant Students
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Translanguaging for Multilingual Immigrant Students

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

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Trauma-Informed Practice
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Trauma-Informed Practice

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

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Glossary
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Glossary

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.

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Refugees and Immigrants in Schools
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Refugees and Immigrants in Schools

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

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Immigration in Secondary Schools
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Immigration in Secondary Schools

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.

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Immigration in Elementary Schools
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Immigration in Elementary Schools

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.

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Key Immigration Issues
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Key Immigration Issues

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.

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