National Immigrant Heritage Month
Immigrant Heritage Month gives people across the United States an opportunity to annually explore their own heritage and celebrate the shared diversity that forms the unique story of America.
Description and History
Since June of 2014, Immigrant Heritage Month has given people across the United States an opportunity to annually explore their own heritage and celebrate the shared diversity that forms the unique story of America.
Professional Learning Resources

Culturally Responsive Teaching in the School Library
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.

Books of Our Roots: A Collection of Literature from The Countries of Our Origin
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.

New Americans Toolkit
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.

From Immigration to Sexuality and Beyond: “Include” Graphic Novels to “Explore”…
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: Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
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.
Learner Engagement Resources

New American Programming Ideas from Programming Librarian
ProgrammingLibrarian.org provides a place for library professionals to share, learn and be inspired to present excellent programming for their communities.

Immigration History: Lesson Plans
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.

The Welcoming Library from I’m Your Neighbor
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.

Green Card Voices
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.

AncestryClassroom
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.
Book Lists

Books Matter™ | Children's & Young Adult Literature
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.