Addressing and Dismantling Intersecting Inequities to Promote Educational Justice for Newcomer Youth

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Newcomer students encounter racism, linguistic discrimination, and liminal immigration statuses that intersect to create a web of barriers traditional high schools typically fail to address. Papers in this session will explore ways in which the International Network for Public Schools (INPS) —as a group of small public schools and programs designed to address barriers that inhibit newcomer English Learner (EL) youth from accessing equitable educational opportunities—intentionally address these pervasive barriers through instructional practices, culture, and professional development. The four session papers will consider policy and practice challenges encountered along with promising strategies implemented across various sites to shed light on scaleable approaches to improve outcomes for these students.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 9: Policy Implementation and Going to Scale

Chair

• Carola Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University

Papers

• Improving Outcomes for Immigrant Youth Through Teacher Professional Culture: A Mixed-Method Study   - Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, New York University; Adriana Villavicencio, New York University; Reva Jaffe-Walter, Montclair State University

• Dismantling Barriers to Postsecondary Access for Newcomer Immigrant Youth in High School - Marguerite Lukes, Internationals Network for Public Schools

• Dreaming Otherwise: Creative Policy Negotiation and Creating Communities of Recognition for Multilingual Immigrant Youth - Reva Jaffe-Walter, Montclair State University

• Scaling a School-Level Model: Intersections of Policy and Practice for Schools Serving Newcomer, Multilingual Students - Adriana Villavicencio, New York University; Verenisse Ponce Soria, University of California - Irvine

Discussant

• Carola Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University