The Refugee Teaching Institute is a series of public workshops facilitated by scholars and educators that will bring high school teachers together with refugee students and parents to collaborate on lesson plans that reflect refugees’ histories and culture. With strong support from Merced County schools, the Refugee Teaching Institute is poised to build a foundation for long-term educational partnerships that translate refugee knowledge into the curriculum and expand narratives about life in the Central Valley. https://extension.ucmerced.edu/refugee-teaching-institute-course-series
May Kao Xiong is a Hmong woman who migrated to Illinois, USA, when she was three years old and was…
Sheng Xiong (she/hers) is a first generation Hmong American born and raised in Merced, California. As the daughter of Hmong…