How to Support Immigrant Students and Families: Strategies for Schools and Early Childhood Programs
This comprehensive guide includes more than 50 strategies that educators, staff, and administrators can use to ensure that schools and early childhood settings remain welcoming places for immigrant students and their families. It also highlights some of the partnerships and collaborative efforts that can best support families facing or navigating uncertainty. We will continue to update this guide as needed.
An archived version of this guide from 2017 is available online for reference.
Immigrant Students' Rights
Learn more about immigrant students' rights and where to find more information that can be shared with school staff.
Immigrant Students’ Rights: A Guide for Schools’ Front-Office Staff
Education Week
Partnering with Immigrant Families
Learn more about ways to welcome and partner with immigrant families, as well as the importance of emergency contact information.
Social and Emotional Support
Learn more about the ways that schools can support the unique social and emotional needs of immigrant students.
Questions and Concerns About Immigration Issues
These strategies include information about how immigration issues affect students and recommendations for addressing families' questions about immigration.
Staff Training, Collaboration, and Support
Learn more about the ways staff can collaborate to support immigrant families, as well as some of the immigration issues that may be impacting staff.
Special Populations
Learn more about special populations of immigrant students, as well as their unique strengths and challenges.
Dreamers & DACA: Information for Schools
Indigenous Students from Latin America
Case Studies
These articles highlight case studies from districts related to immigrant students.
Classroom Resources
Video: Featured Schools and Districts
These special videos from Colorín Colorado highlight strategies that schools and districts are using to support immigrant students.
Recommended Resources
Find other recommended resources in this section.
