<p><strong>OVERVIEW  </strong></p> <p>This collection invites children and youth to discover, listen to, share, and celebrate their family stories with pride and joy.  Co-constructed with inter-generational family members (e.g., parents or aunts/uncles or grandparents or madrinas/padrinos with children and adolescents), this collection seeks to: </p> <ul><li>Nurture family relationships and story-sharing habits among children and family members in immigrant-origin communities.</li><li>Celebrate and ensure the sharing of relevant cultural values, languages, traditions, wisdom and shared experiences. </li><li>Empower children and youth to share their family stories and express them through multiple languages at their disposal with their peers and educators;</li><li>Promote English and Spanish literacy (through practicing and engaging in storytelling )</li><li>Engage children and youth in an inquiry cycle involving eliciting, careful listening and re-representing stories </li></ul> <p>The collection was designed by Carola Suárez-Orozco, (Re-imagining Migration, University of Massachusetts, Boston), Veronica Boix Mansilla (Re-Imagining Migration, Harvard Project Zero) with Micheline Lavalle's ( Fairfax Public Schools), Philippa Rappoport (SCLDA), Paola Uccelli (Harvard Graduate School of Education), and parents, teachers and youth.</p> <p><strong>AN EXPLORATION IN THREE CHAPTERS</strong></p> <p>This collection begins with an open exploration of a family scene followed by three core "chapters"</p> <p><strong>I.  Meeting Lola:  </strong>Through a reading of author Bruno Diaz'  <em>"Islandborn"</em> children encounter the challenge of finding and telling a family story considering the ways in which our community can help us find who we are and value our identities. </p> <p></p> <p>This collection is also available in Spanish. Please follow <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/nos-conectamos-compartiendo-historias-de-familia/TBzNWk9DOPgtfRi7#r/">this link </a>to see the collection in Spanish.</p> <p>#ReimaginingMigration</p> <p></p> <p></p>

<p><strong>What habits of mind, heart, and civic participation are necessary to live together in a world on the move?</strong></p> <p>This collection introduces five core dispositions deemed essential to live together in a world of increasing mobility, diversity, and complexity.  Educators, parents, caregivers can cultivate these dispositions in everyday life, creating opportunities for children and youth to:</p> <ul><li><strong>Understand Perspectives </strong></li><li><strong>Inquire in a World Shaped by Migration</strong></li><li><strong>Communicate and Build Relationships Across Difference</strong></li><li><strong>Recognize Power and Inequities, and</strong></li><li><strong>Take Action Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Societies</strong></li></ul> <p><br>Drawing on a series of Smithsonian digital resources, the collection invites you to reflect on how these essential dispositions can be nurtured daily. </p> <p>As you will see, these dispositions are not only about nurturing children's cognitive development or their capacity to think. They also consider the social, emotional, ethical, and civic dimensions of learning and human development.  </p> <p>Dispositions are not meant as simple or isolated skills. Rather they remind us of the power of more transformative kinds of learning--the development of long-lasting competence. Dispositions entail the <strong><em>capacity, sensitivity, and inclination</em></strong> that makes our children "the kind of persons they will become:" young people who are inclined to understand themselves and others' perspectives and can communicate well across differences; young people who tend to be curious about a world that is shaped by the movement of people around the world and within the nation, sensitive about inequities and inclined to take action. </p> <p>Because such dispositions or habits of mind, heart, and civic participation develop over time through multiple opportunities to practice and reflect they are also the kind of learning that can take place in and outside of schools. Every day!  </p> <p></p> <p>This collection and the framework contained was developed by Veronica Boix Mansilla, Senior Visiting Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Research Director Re-Imagining Migration; Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. I thank Philippa Rappoport for her rich resource recommendations. </p> <p></p>

<p><strong>Overview:  </strong></p> <p><strong></strong>The year 2020 showed the resilience of educators committed to student learning under the most unsettling circumstances. It also foregrounded the need to understand our students in context, appreciating their full potential, and responding to pernicious inequities permeating our societies. The future of education requires that we rethink the very purposes and forms of our practices. As we look into the future we may ask: What dispositions might be worth nurturing to empower our youth to live fulfilling lives and construct more inclusive and equitable societies? What concrete practical tools might help us move in the right direction? </p> <p>This collection begins to respond to the challenge. It was created by Veronica Boix Mansilla at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education,  and  Senior Visiting Fellow at the Smithsonian Center for Digital Access. The collection was used at the Project Zero Spark Conferences - June 2021. and May 2022</p> <p><strong>Goals:</strong> Collection users will: </p> <ul><li><strong>Learn</strong> about our Re-Imagining Migration Dispositions framework outlining habits of mind and dispositions that matter in a world on the move.</li><li><strong> Experience </strong>our newly developed Socio-Emotional-Civic-Thinking Routines considering their possible applications in the classroom, and</li><li><strong>Connect</strong> with the Smithsonian Learning Lab interactive platform for digital learning as a platform to discover, create, and share quality teaching and learning designs.</li></ul> <p><strong>Content and pedagogy </strong> </p> <p>By combining visual resources from the Outwin National Portrait Gallery exhibition with opportunities to reflect using new socio-emotional and civic thinking routines, the collection invites us to explore how we connect with others and learn to recognize human dignity in people whose lives may differ from our own.<br></p> <p>#ReImaginingMigration #ProjectZero </p> <p></p>