In this Knowledge Quest post, blogger Maureen Schlosser explores the questions “Why does culturally responsive teaching matter?” and “How can I be a culturally responsive school librarian?” She also shares ways to reflect on practice and lesson ideas.

In this KQ blog, Karin Greenberg shares the creation of her Books of Our Roots: A Collection of Literature from the Countries of Our Origin project.

The ALSC Library Service to Underserved Children &Their Caregivers committee created a toolkit for working with new Americans. The toolkit is divided into 3 parts, Professional & Community Resources, Recommended Read-alouds, and Intentional Programming.

This AASL National Conference archived session shares an overview of graphic novel titles dealing with critical social justice issues in different curriculum areas like Science and History and aligns titles with the AASL Standards.

Libraries Respond is a space to help keep current events in conversation with libraries' ongoing work in and commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. This collection contains resources on Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers.

ProgrammingLibrarian.org provides a place for library professionals to share, learn and be inspired to present excellent programming for their communities.

Immigration History, a project of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, created 12 high school lesson plans which cover a 230 year timeline of laws, court decisions, and executive actions on immigration.

A Welcoming Library can be borrowed from locations around the nation. I’m Your Neighbor also regularly updates the book list of books for all ages with themes around refugees, immigration, and new Americans.

A nonprofit based in Minneapolis, this organization works to connect immigrants and their communities through multimedia storytelling. Several resources on the website require a fee, but the videos of students sharing their stories are powerful.

Students can explore heritage with free access to Ancestry Classroom. In addition to the database, resources are available for teachers including a database of lesson plans.

ADL provides an online bibliography of recommended children’s and young adult books about bias, bullying, diversity and social justice. This curated list provides age level recommended books on Immigrant & Refugee Rights.