Re-Imagining Companion Educator Guide: This Re-Imagining Migration educator guide provides essential tools for understanding and teaching the landmark Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which established every child’s constitutional right to public education regardless of immigration status—a right now under threat in states across the country. 

This guide offers educators and school leaders important tools to help them lead meaningful professional development conversations, including hosting an all-staff read of “Making Americans: Plyler v. Doe Opening the School Door,“ to facilitating action-oriented discussions that translate learning into concrete policy changes. Educators will also find discussion questions, activity plans, and classroom resources that build empathy, deepen understanding, and build belonging across their school communities.

Teach your students the story of Plyler v. Doe.

I created a series of U.S. history lessons on immigrant education, including one on Plyler v. Doe geared to 8-12th graders.

This multi-part lesson series explores the pivotal moments, landmark cases, and competing philosophies that have shaped immigrant education in America. These lessons guide students through the historical struggles over who belongs in American schools and how immigrant students should be taught.

From early debates about common schooling to landmark Supreme Court decisions protecting language rights and educational access, the series examines both restrictive policies rooted in xenophobia and movements that embraced immigrant communities as assets. Inspired by Lander’s research and classroom experience, each lesson features rich primary source analysis—including speeches, legal documents, maps, poems, and political cartoons—that develops students’ historical thinking skills while connecting past patterns of exclusion and inclusion to contemporary questions about belonging, language, and educational equity. This series provides educators with a thoughtful framework for helping students understand how schools have served as both battlegrounds and bridges in America’s ongoing conversation about immigration and national identity.

Massachusetts Rapid Response Guide for Educators of Immigrant-Origin Students: This guide was created by a coalition of organizations in MA to provide clear and concise information, resources, and ideas for supporting immigrant-origin students, particularly undocumented students and students living in mixed-status families.