Resources
Our collection of resources is designed to equip parents, educators, administrators, and practitioners with tools and guidance to promote diversity, foster school integration, and nurture inclusivity.
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Stress Related to Immigration Status in Students: A Brief Guide for Schools
Description: This brief guide is designed to provide an overview of detention, deportation, and other immigration status-related stress and its effect on children and families, as well as suggestions for how school personnel can support families in the context of this unique stressor.
Source: Marquette University
Supporting Students from Immigrant Families
Description: Learn more about immigrant students’ rights, public schools’ obligations to immigrant students, and resources for families. We created this resource page to collect and share resources for families, educators and all community members, and we’ll continue to update this page. Many of these resources are available in multiple languages. Updated April 2025.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center | Learning for Justice
Talking Race with Young Children
Description: This powerpoint was part of a brown bag discussion about why and how to talk about race with young children. Educators from Bennett Family Center and Hort Woods Child Care
Source: Dr. Erica Frankenberg & Dr. Allison Henward
Teaching Central America
Description: More than seven million Central Americans reside in the United States today, yet the lack of resources in most schools on Central American heritage make the rich history and literature of the region invisible. Teaching for Change has launched a campaign to encourage and support teaching about Central America. We have collected lessons, book lists, biographies of noted historical figures, and readings for free use by classroom teachers.
Source: Teaching for Change
Teaching Young Children about Race
Description: A Guide for Parents and Teachers Recent events have led many parents and teachers to seek out resources to address issues of race and inequality with young children. We share with you here an excerpt from the book Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves. The book offers practical guidance to early childhood educators (including parents) for confronting barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity; most importantly, it includes tips for adults and children to respect each other, themselves, and all people.
Source: Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards
Ten Strategies for Supporting Immigrant Students and Families
Description: There are many ways that schools can support immigrant students and families facing uncertainty. These strategies are based on input from educators and researchers across the country.
Source: Colorín Colorado
Ten Tips for Teaching and Talking to Kids About Race
Description: Resources shared by Andrew Grant-Thomas of Embrace Race for families and educators about talking to young children about race.
Source: Embrace Race
The Line Between Us
Description: "The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration" explores the history of U.S-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, all in the context of the global economy. And it shows how teachers can help students understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life. It’s about imaginative and creative teaching that gets students to care about the world. Using role-plays, stories, poetry, improvisations, simulations and video, veteran teacher Bill Bigelow demonstrates how to combine lively teaching with critical analysis.
Source: Bill Bigelow
They're Not Too Young to Talk About Race
Description: Age-based guide to developmentally appropriate conversations about race for children birth through age 6.
Source: The Children's Community School
This is Not a Drill
Description: Educators across the country are taking action when ICE raids happen in their communities. Here’s how you can stand with undocumented students and families— whether or not you live in a vulnerable community. (Page 46).
Source: Julia Delacroix and Coshandra Dillard
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Description: In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young “troublemakers,” challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children—Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus—Troublemakers allows us to see school through the eyes of those who know firsthand what it means to be labeled a problem.
Source: Carla Shalaby
Welcoming Schools Toolkit for students, parents, and educators
Description: The Youth Organizing Project at the Pennsylvania Citizenship and Immigration Coalition (PICC) came to the Sheller Center asking for help in creating a toolkit that would help immigrant communities advocate for the policies and practices needed to create safe and welcoming schools. After the fall election, PICC was flooded with questions from parents and teachers across PA, asking whether it was safe to send their children to school and what schools could do to protect students.
Source: Temple University Beasley School of Law Center for Social Justice
What Do I Say to Students About Immigration Orders?
Description: Educators are fielding questions from students about recently issued executive orders on immigration, refugee resettlement and a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Here are some suggestions for how to best answer students.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center | Learning for Justice
What if We Taught Kids About Skin Color and Racism The Way We Teach Math?
Description: What if we approached teaching and learning around race, skin color, and racism according to this same thoughtful, skill based approach?
Source: Madeleine Rogin for Good
When and How to Talk with Young Children about Enslavement:
Description: Discussion Questions for Educators. When, as well as how, do we talk with children about slavery. At what age do we first introduce the topic, and what concepts do we communicate at different ages? When do we think children can both cognitively understand and emotionally handle the truth about the realities of slavery?
Source: Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards