Wilson asks DOE about engaging immigrant students
Wilson asks how DOE engages immigrant students from different civic traditions. Ryle says the curriculum draws on students' lived experiences as assets, and Superintendent Deans will speak to family outreach.
And then my last question is many of our schools have large immigrant populations, immigrant student populations that are in many cases coming from countries with different civic traditions and forms of government.
So how do you work to engage them in the political process?
So I'll first say in terms of our civics curriculum, it really draws on students'lived experiences, and that's messaging that we provide to schools and professional learning as well,
that our students have diverse backgrounds, they have different lived experiences, and that those are assets, and they should be treated as such when we're talking about civics and civics education.
In terms of how we're engaging families, I'd love to have one of our superintendents, superintendent deans, speak to what that looks like.
While you exchange, I want to recognize Councilmember Farias.