Re-imagining Migration

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

“Asian Americans” is a free, five-hour PBS documentary series told through intimate personal stories. It casts a new lens on U.S. history and the role Asian Americans have always played in shaping it.

Stream free on PBS Learning Media, with companion lessons from the Asian American Education Project.

Link in bio. 🔗

1 in 5 Medal of Honor recipients is an immigrant.

This Memorial Day, we remember those who died in the defense of the United States. Among them are many immigrants and children of immigrants.

📣Webinar for all educators

Students and families living through enforcement activity, displacement, or fear often carry deep and compounding trauma into the school environment.

How do we create belonging-centered learning environments, year round?

- This session focuses on social-emotional supports, trauma-informed pedagogy, and healing-centered practices that educators can use across grade levels and content areas.
- Tools for classroom discussions on immigration enforcement.
- Instructional adaptations for periods of crisis.
- Frameworks for establishing lasting belonging.

Re-Imagining Migrations’s and Meisha Lamb-Bell join the MAEC Center for Education Equity & the National Newcomer Network at The Century Foundation for a free webinar on building ecosystems of belonging to meet the moment.

🗓️May 28th
⏰12:30 PM EDT
📍Remote | FREE
🔗 Link in bio!

📣Webinar for all educators

Students and families living through enforcement activity, displacement, or fear often carry deep and compounding trauma into the school environment.

How do we create belonging-centered learning environments, year round?

- This session focuses on social-emotional supports, trauma-informed pedagogy, and healing-centered practices that educators can use across grade levels and content areas.
- Tools for classroom discussions on immigration enforcement.
- Instructional adaptations for periods of crisis.
- Frameworks for establishing lasting belonging.

Re-Imagining Migration’s and Meisha Lamb-Bell join the MAEC Center for Education Equity & the National Newcomer Network at The Century Foundation for a free webinar on building ecosystems of belonging to meet the moment.

🗓️May 28th
⏰12:30 PM EDT
📍Remote | FREE
🔗 Link in bio!

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 📚

In 2013, LA-based artist Ken Tanaka released a short film called What Kind of Asian Are You? — and it went viral for a reason. In just a few minutes, it captures something many Asian-American students experience regularly: the assumption that looking a certain way means you can’t truly belong here.

Re-Imagining Migration has paired this film with classroom discussion questions to help educators open up conversations about identity, stereotyping, and belonging.

Free resource at the link in bio. 🔗

📣 Webinar for all educators

How do we best support immigrant and multilingual students with free, high-quality instructional resources designed for their needs?

This Monday, May 18th at 7PM ET, we’re joining the California Newcomer Network for a free live webinar featuring Re-Imagining Migration’s Director of Practice and Policy , bestselling author of Making Americans, and Joel Troge, Director of Long-term ELLs, Newcomers, and SIFE at NYC Public Schools.

Both educators will share Re-Imagining Migration’s free, ready-to-use classroom resources and fresh approaches to instruction for immigrant and multilingual students.

FREE | 1 hour
Open to all educators

🔗 Register at the link in bio!

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 📚

Re-Imagining Migration’s reading list — 9 Must-Read Books by Asian-Origin Authors — brings together stories of migration, identity, and belonging across generations and geographies.

Each book is paired with Learning Arc questions to help educators bring these stories into the classroom with intention.

Written by Aakanksha Gupta.

Full list at the link in bio. 🔗

DBQs are becoming central to social studies. But traditional designs can feel inaccessible — especially for multilingual learners.

Our free guide, Designing DBQs for All flips the script, not by lowering expectations, but by changing how students reach them.

Written by Adam Strom, with review by Jessica Lander and Sara K. Ahmed, this practical guide gives educators the tools to design historically grounded, culturally responsive inquiry for every learner in the room.

🔗Free to download at the link in bio!

The books highlighted in our Migration Minute series bring migration stories from across the world into the classroom — centering the voices, experiences, and emotions of children and families navigating borders, separation, and belonging.

They are essential reads to integrate into your curriculum.

Stay tuned for the next episode! 👀

This Teacher Appreciation Week, we recognize the educators who make all the difference.

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Teacher Appreciation Week 🍎

We’re spotlighting Matthew Jaber Stiffler — Director of the Center for Arab Narratives

Growing up Arab American in small-town Pennsylvania, Matthew learned early that heritage is something you carry even when the curriculum doesn’t reflect it. That experience is what drives his work documenting and preserving Arab American stories today.

Read the full spotlight at the link in bio. 🔗