About This Webinar
2024 must be the year of belonging. We cannot turn away from the rising isolation and ostracization of the youth. Not only are our most impressionable community members navigating community building post-lockdown and amidst the pandemic, but they are doing so under the heavy influence of social media and divisive politics. Young people are inundated with messaging that labels others and excludes their peers, often along racial, class, religious, and national lines. At the same time, many school districts are taking in increasing and often unexpected numbers of newcomers. How can we ensure that the school communities they enter are welcoming and inclusive?
As schools strive to create spaces where newcomer students can thrive, we must place belonging at the heart of intake plans. The increase in migration presents an opportunity to reimagine the school system as a whole, to center around each and every student's identity and community formation. In this 2024 Share My Lesson Virtual Conference session, we will briefly introduce the Re-Imagining Migration framework, specifically on our first pillar, understanding the students we are teaching.
We will highlight tools designed to center student agency in building meaningful, healthy community relationships and provide examples of school districts already centering on belonging as interweaving it into their academic environment.
