28.017 - Examining Truths About Immigrant Student Success: Studying the Internationals Network for Public Schools

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The objective of this session is to better understand practices in place within the Internationals Network for Public Schools, a national network of public secondary schools designed to serve the needs of recently arrived immigrant youth. Immigrant youth face many challenges when arriving in the United States (language acquisition, acculturation, and maintaining ties with their family members abroad) which contribute to making immigrant youth vulnerable to school failure (Olneck, 2006; Suárez-Orozco, Suárez-Orozco, & Todorova, 2008). Internationals schools have been uniquely successful in educating recently immigrated youth. Presentations within the symposium describe the accomplishments of the Internationals Network as well as some of the key practices and mechanisms underlying their success with recently immigrated youth.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Division A - Section 2: School Organization and Effects

Chair

• Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, New York University

Papers

• Encouraging Collective Responsibility for Immigrant Students: How Professional Context Matters - Reva Jaffe-Walter, Montclair State University; Adriana Villavicencio, New York University

• The Professionalization of Teachers Within the Internationals Network for Public Schools - Sarah Lazarus Klevan, New York University

• Engaging the Immigrant Habitus: Pedagogical Practices of Speaking and Self-Advocacy - Chandler Patton Miranda, New York University; Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng

• Trauma-Informed Schooling in an Anti-Immigrant Political Climate - Lara Evangelista, New York City Department of Education; Chandler Patton Miranda, New York University

• Beyond the Diploma: Postsecondary Trajectories of English Learner Graduates of Internationals Network High Schools - Marguerite Lukes, Internationals Network for Public Schools

Discussant

• Marguerite Lukes, Internationals Network for Public Schools