Immigrant Connections
Building Bridges Between Educators and Immigrant Communities in Louisville
In August 2022, Jaclyn Muñoz and I (Laura Gardner) of Immigrant Connections co-facilitated a unique professional development session for...
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Immigrant Connections
- Dec 14, 2021
- 4 min
Resources to Orient Afghans to K-12 Education in the U.S.
As most are aware, American military troops withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 and almost immediately, the Afghan government...
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Immigrant Connections
- May 7, 2021
- 3 min
Will I Be Getting More Refugee Students?
The questions have begun. Teachers and administrators are asking “With everything going on in the news, am I going to have more English...
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Immigrant Connections
- Apr 17, 2021
- 6 min
10 Things Educators Need to Know about Unaccompanied Minors
At this point, you’ve probably seen the news. Nearly 19,000 children, mostly from Central America, were apprehended at the border in...
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Immigrant Connections
- Dec 10, 2020
- 6 min
English Learner (EL) Teachers & Setting Boundaries
This article is for English Learner (EL) teachers. Let me start by saying this article will likely be controversial! I, Laura Gardner of...
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Immigrant Connections
- Oct 4, 2020
- 4 min
Top 5 Strategies for Engaging Immigrant and Refugee Families for Family Engagement Professionals
As anyone who reads this blog knows, many of our posts are about family and community engagement in schools. We are passionate about...
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Immigrant Connections
- Aug 2, 2020
- 3 min
How to Fulfill Interpretation & Translation Requirements: Tools for Guiding Decisions
Both before COVID and now, the topic of interpretation (oral) and translation (written) in schools is something that regularly comes up...
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Immigrant Connections
- Jun 12, 2020
- 7 min
Engaging Immigrant & English Learner Families in a Virtual World: 10 Lessons Learned
It’s now been three months since our lives went on hold. In many cities and states, school is out for the summer. In others, it’ll be...
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Immigrant Connections
- May 11, 2020
- 2 min
Google Classroom and More in Multiple Languages
One of the things that makes distance learning difficult for so many refugee and immigrant students and families is the number of...
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Immigrant Connections
- Apr 21, 2020
- 4 min
Ramadan & Distance Learning: Insight from Two Muslim Parents
The fact that Ramadan starts later this week has been on my radar for some time. I have been fortunate to attend Iftar (when the daily...
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Immigrant Connections
- Mar 17, 2020
- 3 min
English Learner Family Engagement During Coronavirus
With so many schools closed across the country and students engaged in distance learning, let’s take a moment to think about the role of...
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Immigrant Connections
- Feb 27, 2020
- 5 min
The Impact of Immigration Policies on Students & Families in DC
This past Tuesday night (February 25, 2020), I went to see a live recording of the Kojo Nnamdi show at the Columbia Heights Educational...
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Immigrant Connections
- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
Educator Advocacy for English Learners
In our last blog post, we talked about Student-Teacher Ratios for English Learners. In many of the states listed there, their...
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Immigrant Connections
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
Student-Teacher Ratios for English Learners
There are many Facebook groups out there for those working with English Learners (ELs) and there are often posts about how to best...
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Immigrant Connections
- Dec 16, 2019
- 6 min
Community- and Culturally-Based Approaches to Trauma
Many of our English Learner students and their families – particularly those who are refugees – have undoubtedly been through situations...
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Immigrant Connections
- Nov 7, 2019
- 1 min
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Introducing the new look, new name, and new future of Immigrant Connections! In 2017, Gardner & Associates was created to improve the...
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Immigrant Connections
- Nov 3, 2019
- 4 min
Immigrant and English Learner Parent Advocacy
While the federal government outlines Schools' Civil Rights Obligations to English Learner Students and Limited English Proficient...
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Immigrant Connections
- Sep 21, 2019
- 2 min
10 Possible Alternatives to “International Night”
Many schools across the U.S. host international or multicultural nights each year. At these events, students and/or their families...
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Immigrant Connections
- Sep 4, 2019
- 5 min
Back-to-School Night & Equity for Immigrant Families
In most Back-to-School Nights* around the country, parents walk around their child’s school and visit with their teachers. In middle and...
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Immigrant Connections
- Aug 21, 2019
- 5 min
Bilingual Parent Liaisons: the Juggle is Real
Happy Back to School! This blog post is for all the school-based family engagement staff out there who specifically focus on immigrants,...
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