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Working with Immigrant Families
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BriAnna Sybesma, Nikki Menczywor, Brennan Striegel, and Sierra Desiderio
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"Based on her own immigration story, Yang’s offering is a winner — a spot-on depiction of the immigration experience in America."
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“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.
Warsan Shire on Immigration
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This resource is perfect for teachers who are looking for ways to help their EL student adjust to the U.S. education system as well as life in a foreign land. This site offers 20 in depth strategies, broken up into categories that include Communicating Important Information, Parent Participation, Parent Leadership, and Community Partnership. It helps teachers focus on a place to start and to later devise a plan.
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Shows the hardship and struggles faced by families who seek to make better lives by illegally crossing the border.
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A bilingual picture book about a boy helping his classmates to understand an Hispanic cultural tradition.
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Things to Consider when Working with Immigrant Families:
-ask which language they prefer to speak and provide a translator if necessary (try to avoid communicating through children)
-provide documents in multiple languages
-Partner with culturally specific agencies to ensure each family receives appropriate services and case management
-Ask questions about the family’s ethnic background
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Cultural competency with immigrant children and families requires more than just learning about their culture. It also includes an understanding of the process of migration, the reasons families migrate, and the process of acculturation and related family or marital stressors.
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Helping Immigrant Students Adjust to New Schools, New Lives
Video of what St. Cloud Min. district is doing to help students and parents who are immigrants adjust to their new life and what they suggest all school districts nationwide start doing.
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Website provides a list of Do’s and Don’ts as a teacher when it comes to building relationships with your new immigrant students, and how to welcome immigrant students into your classroom.
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Website gives resources for the topics of cultural competency of workers (includes understanding of the process of migration, the reasons families migrate, the process of acculturation and related family or marital stressors); domestic violence, language issues, resources for immigrant families and state and local examples).
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I’m New Here: Welcoming Immigrant Students
Video of a book teachers can read and an activity that goes along with it in order to teach children what immigrant children feel like to be new and how to make them feel welcome in the classroom.
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