By creating resources, offering professional development opportunities, and organizing events, CUNY-IIE works to equip educators with the tools to better support immigrant-origin students.
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Teaching at the Intersection of Immigration and Education: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty
This guide provides higher education faculty with research and multimodal resources to enhance coursework for pre-service and in-service educators.
Immigration in Early Childhood Education Module
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.
Translanguaging for Multilingual Immigrant Students Module
This module helps educators understand and apply translanguaging to support immigrant multilingual students, highlighting its benefits, and guiding teachers in planning effective translanguaging pedagogy.
Trauma-Informed Practice Module
This module equips educators with trauma-informed practices to support immigrant-origin students, fostering healing, social-emotional growth, and strategies for classroom care.
Refugees and Immigrants in Schools Module
This module builds educators’ skills to support refugee students, dispel misconceptions, engage families, use asset-based practices, and foster empathy through powerful stories.
Key Immigration Issues Module
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.
Immigration in Secondary Schools Module
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.
Immigration in Elementary Schools Module
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.
Glossary Module
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.
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.
Key Immigration Issues Video
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.
Refugees and Immigrants in Schools Video
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.
Immigration in Elementary Schools Video
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.
Immigration in Secondary Schools Video
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.
How To Welcome a New Student Guide
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.
Welcoming New Students: A Guide for Teachers, Created by Students Video
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.
My Story, Our Story Video
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.
Family Literacy Program Video
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.
Access for All: The Need for More Immigrant Educators Video
Listen to three immigrant college immigrant students reflect on support from undocumented educators, their dreams of teaching, and fears tied to immigration barriers.
Flipping the Script: Undocumented Immigrants are the Educators Video
Listen to three immigrant college immigrant students reflect on support from undocumented educators, their dreams of teaching, and fears tied to immigration barriers.