Resources for Schools & Educators

American Federation of Teachers (2016): Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators & School Support Staff

This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and unaccompanied and refugee children currently living in the United States.

Colorín Colorado

We have collected some helpful lesson plans as well as discussion guides for talking about the results of the 2016 election. For more ideas, see the message below from Colorín Colorado contributor Kristina Robertson. To see related resources, visit our Election 2016 section.

Welcoming America

We are here to help you create more inclusive communities, and the following public resources have been designed to help you spark and grow welcoming efforts in your community.

Informed Immigrant

These FAQs provide information and recommendations that may help you prepare for life under the administration of President Donald Trump.

U.S. Dept of Ed (2015) Resource Guide: Supporting Undocumented Youth

Informed by research and promising practices, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) has compiled this Resource Guide to assist and enhance State and local efforts to support undocumented youth at the secondary and postsecondary school levels

Op ed: supporting undocumented students

We Have Your Back: How Educators can Support Undocumented Students, published in Diverse Issues in Higher Education

Green Card Voices

Green Card Voices’ mission is to share various stories of our nation’s 40 million immigrants and put a human face to the current immigration debate. Simply, we hope to introduce immigrants to their neighbors.

Oakland Unified School District

ELLMA supports the growth and development of programs that meet the demands of increasing Newcomer Student enrollment through specialized programs.

Teaching Tolerance

An Educator’s Guide to the Immigration Debate

What you need to know to facilitate classroom conversation about this controversial topic.

Curriculum for Social Work Training on Working with Immigrants and Refugees

This Educator|Resource invites the social work profession to think about innovative ways to increase the number of Latinx social workers and to implement new models that prepare social work professionals to work with Latinx communities.