This professional development module provides hands-on opportunities for all school personnel to learn how to support their students socio-emotionally through the use of trauma-informed practices.
This module provides an overview of trauma-informed practices with a focus on immigrant-origin students.
Participants will learn ways to nurture the social-emotional learning pathways of students who may have endured trauma as they heal and integrate into their new communities. To that end, this module addresses the following themes:
Overview of Trauma-Informed Practice
Recognizing Trauma: Supporting Immigrant Students
Strategies for Supporting Students Who Have Endured Trauma
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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.