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World Refugee Day provides us with the opportunity to pause, learn more, and reflect on our individual, local, national, and global commitments as citizens and as human beings.

Though classroom instruction focused on media literacy has increased in recent years, that work is often focused on helping students differentiate fact from fiction. In the present news environment where we face an endless stream of questions surrounding the legitimacy of the information we encounter, helping students cultivate such skills is critical. But so too is there a chance to embrace media as something that can enlarge educators’ and students’ sense of what is true, what is possible, and who we can become in this nation and world.

Make a teachng moment out of President Trump's announcements on immigration and refugee policy.

Studies have shown that reading, particularly memoir and fiction, can increase a person’s ability to empathize with the experiences of others. Reading diverse books matters, and can educate and transform us in important and lasting ways. This group of books highlights several different voices and lived experiences. We hope that you are able to find yourself and others in these books.

What does it mean to face history in your own community? And how do you teach a history in a community where its legacies are still unfolding?