Resources for Educators, Policymakers, and Researchers
K-12 Educators
At REACH, we aim to provide K-12 educators with resources to support conversations with their students about experiences of migration and displacement. These resources promote discussions about inclusion and belonging and how to act on our collective responsibility for creating welcoming communities for us all.
Each of the resources are creative pieces developed by students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education based on interviews they conducted with individuals whose educational experiences have been disrupted by conflict, both inside and outside the classroom.
Policymakers
Our work focuses on ways that policies and practices interact with the experiences of teaching and learning in schools. Policy is created and lived in many places: at and across local, national, regional, and global levels. Considering these many levels allows education policy to connect the influences of individual, family, community, region, nation, and world on teaching and learning. In education of refugees, ideas of responsibility, power, and collective benefits are particularly salient as refugees are educated as non-citizens within nation-states and within national education systems.
Researchers
Our research focuses on the experiences of teachers and students in schools. We seek to understand the ways that politics and policies interact with processes of teaching and learning in classrooms. We research how classroom pedagogy, curricular content, and relationships can build inclusion and belonging, with implications for both individuals and communities. We work collaboratively with teachers, students, civil society organizations, governments, and international agencies. These long-term collaborative relationships help us to ask relevant research questions and to contribute to policy and program decisions.