When reflecting on my journey from being an undocumented student arriving in the U.S. without knowing English to serving as Assistant...

Around the country, many school districts are reporting attendance concerns related to their immigrant, English Learner (EL), and...

By now most of us have heard that schools will no longer be off limits for immigration enforcement due to President Trump rescinding a...

The border wall in Nogales, Mexico Two of us from the Immigrant Connections team (Laura Gardner and Karen Brown) attended the Common...

We all know by now that President-elect Trump has promised the largest deportation program in U.S. history. This understandably has many...

As we always say, what happens on the border and in immigration news impacts what happens in our classrooms. The past year is a perfect...

In August 2022, Jaclyn Muñoz and I (Laura Gardner) of Immigrant Connections co-facilitated a unique professional development session for...

As most are aware, American military troops withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 and almost immediately, the Afghan government...

The questions have begun. Teachers and administrators are asking “With everything going on in the news, am I going to have more English...

At this point, you’ve probably seen the news. Nearly 19,000 children, mostly from Central America, were apprehended at the border in...

This article is for English Learner (EL) teachers. Let me start by saying this article will likely be controversial! I, Laura Gardner of...

As anyone who reads this blog knows, many of our posts are about family and community engagement in schools. We are passionate about...

Both before COVID and now, the topic of interpretation (oral) and translation (written) in schools is something that regularly comes up...

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...

One of the things that makes distance learning difficult for so many refugee and immigrant students and families is the number of...

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...

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...

This past Tuesday night (February 25, 2020), I went to see a live recording of the Kojo Nnamdi show at the Columbia Heights Educational...

In our last blog post, we talked about Student-Teacher Ratios for English Learners. In many of the states listed there, their...

There are many Facebook groups out there for those working with English Learners (ELs) and there are often posts about how to best...