More Hopeful Futures or Children as Collateral Damage? Potential Implications of Accelerated Deportation

“And how are the children?”

That traditional Masai greeting is at the heart of at least two upcoming GLR Learning Tuesdays sessions being hosted by the Campaign for Grade Level Reading (CGLR). The initial session on March 25 will illuminate and center the children served by the U.S. Department of Education. In this second session, Brazelton Touchpoints Center will partner with CGLR to focus on the children of immigrant families who face accelerated detention and deportation. Recent pronouncements and actions to rescind protections for “sensitive locations” such as hospitals, schools, and houses of worship raise legitimate concerns and require additional consideration about how to mitigate adverse academic, emotional, and developmental consequences for the children of immigrants in schools and child care settings.

Join us on April 1, from 3–4:30 p.m. ET, for a timely and important conversation examining these concerns about the potential implications of these developing policies and proposed actions. Panelists will explore the potential implications for the early childhood programs and schools that serve these children and families. We expect the conversation to call out the ensuing challenges to successful teaching and learning, student attendance, and family engagement, and most importantly, the healthy development of the children involved. And finally, we expect the conversation to highlight information, strategies and tools that caring communities can use to mitigate harm to these and all children.