Windows, Mirrors and Migration: Tackling the Literacy Crisis and Building Empathy Through Literature

Engaging with literature provides a unique opportunity to both understand ourselves at a deeper level and build empathy, understanding and connection with another’s story. In this loneliness epidemic and literacy crisis, fostering a love of critical reading and text engagement is more important than ever.

Join Re-Imagining Migration in a special conversation with Lee & Low Books for an informative session teaching about migration in literature for middle school and high school ELA programs. Learn about the Re-Imagining Migration Learning Arc and how to use this framework to curate high-quality, rigorous migration-centered text sets. You’ll also be introduced to the latest resource from Re-Imaging Migration, a pilot resource kit for ELA teachers called the Re-Imagining Migration Literature Curriculum Resource Toolkit. The kit consists of three main components that can be used together or independently. During the webinar, we will model how to use each component with texts at both the middle and high school levels.

You’ll learn:

• Purposeful strategies to integrate migration into your curriculum and school communities rather than whiplash responses to the news cycle.
• How to use the Resource Toolkit to create a more inclusive and reflective curriculum that addresses the themes of migration, belonging, identity and community.
• Tips for both planning and teaching to ensure that these critical themes are thoughtfully integrated into the classroom.