Immigration curriculum guidebook
Artwork by Janice Frame
Borders to Bridges is designed to promote dialogue in schools and communities by engendering deeper understanding and discussion to counter the myths, bullying, and fears that negatively affect our learning institutions.
The Guidebook contains practical lessons plans, narratives, poetry, mixed media artwork and resources for K-12 educators, and after-school, refugee, counseling, prison, adult, university, teacher training education programs. Borders to Bridges enriches learning and engages students with issues that touch their lives and communities. Contributors include world-renowned educators, poets, artists, and writers from 38 countries and 20 states of the U.S.
The book is GORGEOUS and wonderful. Congratulations! What a triumph. Bursting with pride to be part of your wonderful work. This book is already busting boundaries and crossing bridges…it’s a beautiful production, a complete wow
Borders to Bridges arrived in all of its splendor and glory!... I am impressed with its bold artfulness, its comprehensiveness and detail, its welcoming and generous words and images, its efforts to reveal the values, philosophy, even the politics that shape the curricular projects. What a huge and ambitious piece of work...a long lifetime of work...a soulful and amazing contribution to the discourse at a time when it is most needed.
The study of critical issues through artistic media–poetry, collage, drama, writing, clay work, dance, song, and the graphic arts–has the power to open minds and broaden horizons, allowing people to voice their experience. The depth and breadth of the activities in Borders to Bridges help us to further tap the wellspring of kinship and compassionate understanding in the human heart.
This is an extraordinary compilation of meaningful and challenging art projects. I really like breaking down each project by their Essence, Their Step-by-Step Instructions, and then providing related resources. The supplemental materials at the end are wonderful. You really provide teachers with everything they need to use these projects
It is such a lovely book… I was struck by the number of projects I saw that I should have used in law school. Law students really aren’t so much different from other age groups. Maybe I couldn’t get them to work with clay, but they certainly could have developed some visual thinking strategies…It appears to be truly a master work.
I believe this book will impact many people’s lives. It offers both practical and philosophical aspects and contains deep learnings through the arts in various ways. All schools should have this book!
Fascinating, creative, and inclusive work that can complement curriculum PreK to Higher Education. I taught a graduate Curriculum Development course at Central Connecticut State University and surely would have used your book as an example of strategies and interventions for teaching diversity and inclusivity
Thanks …for sharing sophisticated experience and knowledge with such generosity… Yes, it is indeed …fascinating work. I highly recommend the book to teachers, social workers, and trainers since it has many processes that are pretty much powerful and efficient.
It looks fantastic and I am so grateful for all the work. I will both use and recommend this book with a great pleasure.
Your book is just completely beautiful Lynn. The design is amazing and especially the testimonies at the end about immigration such a great idea. I was deeply moved by the opportunity that you give to everyone to add all those activities to their curriculum. The book itself is a piece of art, sincerely.
Thank you for your new publication. It is gorgeous…
Gorgeous! And brilliant...I'm looking forward to a close read and using it for years to come
Awesome! Excited to go through it more fully. I appreciate the opportunity to being a small contributor to this book and movement of equitable arts-based education.
What a great pleasure to receive such an amazing book, it has a very meaningful beauty and presence, full of resources and interesting quotes and artworks…this is a big present to me and the world. That book is a treasure, a total treasure for people to teach from!! …a terrific job of organization and integration - went over it today from cover to cover and it was so exciting.
Borders to Bridges. De fronteras a puentes. Currículum basado en las artes para la justicia social. Este libro promueve el diálogo en las escuelas y comunidades al generar una comprensión y un debate más profundos sobre los mitos y temores que afectan negativamente a nuestras instituciones de aprendizaje. Contiene planes de lecciones prácticas, narrativas, poesía, obras de arte de medios mixtos y recursos para enriquecer el aprendizaje e involucrar a los estudiantes sobre temas críticos que tocan sus vidas y comunidades. Incluye la colaboración de educadores y artistas de 38 países.
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Tina Medina
Tina Medina, artist, educator, and curator earned her BFA degree at Texas Tech University and MFA degree at the University of North Texas. Since 2006, Medina has served as a full-time professor of art at the Mountain View campus of Dallas College. As part of Nuestra Artist Collective, she is curating and collaborating on a traveling exhibit that features women artists who make art about the border. Through an exploration of fibers, painting, video, and audio, Medina’s art reflects U.S. American history from the point of view of the underrepresented voices in our communities such as people of color, farm and domestic workers, the undocumented and women and children.
Website: www.tinamedina.com
Instagram: @tinamedina_art
Artist Tina Medina - They Didn't Know We Were Seeds "Las semillitas," 2021, paper, watercolor, fabric, 10 inches x 8 inches, collection of Ofelia Faz-Garza, photo courtesy of artist.
"Many of my works contemplate the contributions of families, especially indigenous families to the cultivation of the lands, economies, and culture of the United States. The expression, "They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds", mostly used as an activist cry, expresses the feelings of black and brown families whose physical hard labor of the past and today continues to be overlooked as the roots of the success of our country."