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Trust me, you’ll want to take three minutes and see this segment from tonight’s PBS NewsHour:

 

     

Students and their families are being kidnapped by ICE around the country, and the Trump administration is creating a climate of fear and intimidation.

I recently ran a short series in my Ed Week column where teachers in Chicago described how ICE raids affected them, their students and families, and their communities.

I’m interested in publishing similar guest posts from other communities targeted by ICE, including teachers from L.A., North Carolina, Minneapolis, and New Orleans.

If you’re interested, please contact me.

     

This is from Conor Williams at The Century Foundation:

The Elevating Voices of Educators of Newcomers (EVEN) Fellowship is a paid, five-month program for K-12 educators who want to actively push back on negative portrayals of U.S. immigrants. We’re looking for teachers who work directly with newcomers, children of immigrants, and/or English learners—and who want to tell the world the many ways these children make our schools and communities better.

EVEN fellows will:

participate in monthly media trainings and policy discussions;

publish stories and multimedia content about their work with immigrant students and families; and

engage with the media to help shift public discourse about immigrants.

Applications for the fellowship are due Jan. 4. The program will run from early Feb. to late June 2026, and selected applicants will receive $1,500 for their participation.

Here’s more info about it.

It’s sponsored by The Century Foundation’s National Newcomer Network, which does excellent work nationally supporting English Language Learners.

Here in California, Efraín Tovar founded a state-wide organization doing similar work, the California Newcomer Network.

On a related note,  most ELL Newcomer teachers across the country have seen a decrease in their student numbers.  You can read my thoughts about that situation at What Should Schools Do As The Numbers Of ELL Newcomers Decrease?

You might also be interested in The Best Resources On Recent Trump Administration Moves On ELL Policies and The Best Posts & Articles Reacting To Trump’s Executive Order Making English The U.S. Official Language.

     

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December 12th is a Mexican National Holiday, and an important day for many Mexican-Americans — The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe.

You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning & Teaching About The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe.

     

When I teach World History to ELLs, we study the Epic of Gilgamesh, and students summarize the different portions of the story and create illustrated books.

You can see resources I use for that activity here.

TED-Ed has created a video about the epic in Spanish, which will come in quite handy for that lesson: