Glad this issue is getting the attention it deserves. Educators need more support & training for the day-to-day work of meeting kids where they are in the face of terrifying ICE brutality. Thx to @theconversation.com for covering
i’d love to be added to this group/thanks!
These courses offer templates for how TEPs can do this necessary work, especially in the present moment of extreme violence against immigrant communities.
However, our analysis of 89 course syllabi from 4 CA Teacher Ed Programs shows that some courses do address questions of undocumented status, the effects of immigration policies, & ways to support children in immigrant families despite their exclusion from the CA state credentialing standards.
Spoiler alert: there is very little mention of the students’ immigrant origins & almost exclusive focus on English language acquisition.
We analyze California’s Teacher Performance Expectations to see which skills & knowledge teacher candidates are supposed to develop during their training program to prepare them to teach children of immigrant backgrounds.
At long last, I’m thrilled to share a new article (w/former grad student Jessica Nguyen) published in Educational Studies:
Using student-led photography in the classroom may simultaneously expand teachers’ knowledge and understanding of their students, informs practice while increasing cultural relevance and student sense of belonging in the classroom. Contact us for copies! We welcome your thoughts.
We argue that the strategic use of photovoice could be a practice of inclusion (á la Stanton-Salazar’s 1997 structures of exclusion) meridian.allenpress.com/her/article-...
We build on Cooper & Miness’s (2014) work distinguishing teacher care and teacher understanding by showing how photovoice can function as a means to facilitate student agency in laying the foundation for teachers generating a deeper understanding of their students. muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
Students identified ways that these photographs would help increase teachers’ personal and academic understanding of them & potentially engage in more culturally relevant teaching practices that incorporate students’ traditions, languages, cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds.
We asked them to take 20 Polaroid photographs of their lives outside of school that would help teachers understand them better & we learned about what they felt they had few opportunities to share in the classroom: their family members, homes, favorite foods, belongings, pets, religion, & pastimes.
UCSB doctoral candidates Lupita Romo-González, Damhee Dee Dee Hong, and I collaborated with 4th-6th grade students of immigrant backgrounds to explore what they wanted their teachers to know and understand about them, their families, and their lives.
New pub alert! Our article, "Building Classroom Relationships Through Photovoice: What Immigrant-Origin Students Want Their Teachers to Know and Understand about Them," now available in The Elementary School Journal. Access free (first 50) here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/SQVZC...
The moment that changed everything (for me!)
Great news & so well deserved. Enhorabuena, Matt!
MAGA think more uneducated people is a bonus.
HEP author @csattinbajaj.bsky.social was quoted in an article published by @edsurge.com, which examines how the new administration will impact newcomer immigrant students. https://bit.ly/40sW3rO
Delighted (and surprised!) to learn that this summary of my study with @jenjennings.bsky.social, @cohodes.bsky.social, and @csattinbajaj.bsky.social was @nepc.bsky.social's most-read newsletter of 2024! You can read it here: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...
If you're interested in school choice, racial discrimination, or NYC schools, you should read @chantalahailey.bsky.social's important new work
More of this content, please! LA love and delicious baked goods are just what is needed right now. Thank you!
Have lots of resources and can send or post wherever would be most helpful! A few links for starters below. Some may be CA/state-specific in terms of sanctuary provisions and other may not have been updated since DJT rescinded the EO n Sensitive Locations which had restricted ICE near schools
This is why all districts should be training educators on students’ and families’ rights and protocols for responding if/when ICE attempts to enter a school building. Well done CPS for preparing school leaders for dealing with the terrible state we’re in right now.
About 75% of immigrant farm workers did not show up for work this week in Bakersfield, California, as the threat of Trump’s immigration raids looms.
@larryferlazzo.bsky.social in case this is of interest.
Timely conversation about the effects of parental deportation and consequences of immigration enforcement effects for young people & communities drawing from my research w/ @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social and many others. Thank you Elizabeth for doing this important dissemination.
Thanks for sharing this. Schools need to be preparing for how to continue to educate students with likely disruptions (as well as intense fear & trauma caused by ICE). How can we use lesson learned from COVID-19 distance learning to ensure students don’t miss out on impt learning.
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