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For educators at all levels, from kindergarten through adult students, this Educator Resource Hub from The ILC Public Education Institute offers a carefully curated collection of resources to help you support your foreign-born students and educate all students about U.S. immigration.

You can browse or search by grade level and keywords. Whether you are teaching about immigration or creating a welcoming environment for your immigrant students and their families, the topics below have you covered.

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1. Teaching Immigration Lessons and Resources

Lesson plans, curricular units and resources to help you incorporate immigration into your existing curriculum.

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2. ESOL/EL/ML Resources

Lessons, webinars, blogs and more for teachers of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), English learner (EL) and multilingual learner (ML) students.

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3. USCIS Citizenship Application, Practice Test and Interview Resources

Resources to help prepare for the USCIS Citizenship application, practice test and interview.

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4. Immigrant and Immigration Stories

Videos and written accounts by immigrants past and present, strategies for eliciting stories from your students, and opportunities to share your story with others.

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5. Immigrant Trauma and Mental Health

Articles, videos and other resources to help address immigrant trauma, stress and mental health.

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6. Diversity and Culturally Responsive Teaching

Resources to help you develop and maintain a culturally responsive, asset-based teaching practice.

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7. Family and Parental Engagement

Resources to create asset-based, authentic partnerships with your immigrant students’ parents and families.

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8. U.S. Immigration Data and Policy

Up-to-date fact sheets, data hubs, explainers for students and more featuring immigration data and policy.

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9. Teaching Refugee, Unaccompanied Minor and SLIFE Students

Resources to recognize the challenges and support the strengths of refugees, unaccompanied minors and students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) in the classroom.

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10. Resources for Undocumented and DACA Students

Information about undocumented students’ rights, emergency planning guides, lists of scholarships and guides for teachers.

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11. Know Your Rights Resources for Educators

Curated collection of “Know Your Rights” websites, toolkits, videos and more.

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U.S. Citizenship Resources

6 Keys to a Successful Citizenship Preparation Class

The Immigrant Learning Center shares tips from helping hundreds of people become United States citizens, many of whom might not…

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Teaching Immigration Lesson Plans and Resources

Essay: An Overview of Immigration to the United States During the Cold War

This essay on United States immigration during the Cold War is a part of The ILC's "Immigration and Cold War…

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ESOL Resource

Migration Policy Institute ELL Information Center

A collection of fact sheets, reports, maps and state-level data resources concerning trends among immigrant families and their children

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Trauma and Mental Health Resource

Promoting Immigrant Student Mental Health and Wellbeing

In this virtual training, experts discuss the unique position educators are in to address the particular stressors that impact immigrant…

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ESOL Resource

British Council TeachingEnglish

Podcast, webinars and trainings for teachers of elementary, secondary and adult learners

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ESOL Resource

BBC Learning English

Free audio, video and text materials for English learners.

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ESOL Resource

myTESOL

Hub of lesson plans, teaching tips, activities, assessment tools, and other valuable tools.

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Data and Policy

A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Policy from the Colonial Period to the Present Day

An overview of U.S. immigration policy from the Cato Institute, including sections on "The Colonial Period" and "The Forging of…

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ESOL Resource

Reading Rockets Book Finder

Database of recommended books from Reading Rockets that can be filtered by the theme "immigrant stories," age level, heritage and…

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ESOL Resource

Multilingual Learning Toolkit from New Venture Fund

Online hub and research library with key principles, practical strategies and resources that are geared towards educators who teach PreK-3…

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ESOL Resource

English Learners Success Forum Resource Hub

Research-based resources with actionable solutions to support multilingual learners in the design, adoption and implementation of core curriculum materials.

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Refugees and Unaccompanied Minors

Supporting Unaccompanied Minors in the Classroom

Blog post on welcoming unaccompanied minors into your classroom, using a model that identifies four "core stressors" these migrants face

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

2024 Immigrant Student Success Conference Toolkit

Resources and strategies from the 2024 Immigrant Student Success conference

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Teaching Immigration Lesson Plans and Resources

Teaching U.S. Immigration Series

Lesson plans and resources to incorporate immigration and immigrant stories into commonly taught U.S. history topics.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

2023 Immigrant Student Success Toolkit

Resources and strategies from the 2023 Immigrant Student Success conference

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

Community Across Cultures Book Guides

Teacher guides for read alouds about the newcomer experience, immigration and world cultures, tagged by country, theme, level and more.

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Immigrant Stories

Lee and Low Books

Family-run, independent, multicultural book publisher with teacher's guides and collections on many topics including translanguaging, Mexican folk art and immigration

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Teaching Immigration Lesson Plans and Resources

Institute for Curriculum Services

Educational nonprofit dedicated to improving the accuracy of K-12 instruction and instructional materials on Jews, Judaism, and Jewish history

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ESOL Resource

Building Access to DBQs for Multilingual Learners

Slide deck and scaffolding models and templates for making DBQs more accessible to MLs

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Family Engagement

How to Cultivate Immigrant Parents Leadership Skills and How Immigration Impacts Our Schools

An expert in immigrant education explains principles and strategies of immigrant family engagement

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