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\nJessica Lander is a teacher, author, and advocate. In 2021, Jessica was a Top 50 Finalist, Global Teacher Prize, Varkey Foundation. The finalists were chosen from more than 8000 nominations from 121 countries around the world. She...\nJessica Lander is a teacher, author, and advocate. In 2021, Jessica was a Top 50 Finalist, Global Teacher Prize, Varkey Foundation. The finalists were chosen from more than 8000 nominations from 121 countries around the world. She teaches history and civics to recent immigrant students in an urban Massachusetts public high school and has won several statewide teaching awards. Previously she has taught students in middle school, high school, and university in the U.S., Thailand, and Cambodia.She is a coauthor of Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher’s Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success (Scholastic, 2017) and author of Driving Backwards (TidePool Press, 2014). She is currently working on Making Americans, a comprehensive look at immigrant education as told through key historical moments and court decisions, current experiments to improve immigrant education, and profiles of immigrant youth and schools across the country. Making Americans will be published by Beacon Press in Fall 2022.Jessica writes frequently about education policy and teaching. Her work has been published in print and online including in: The Boston Globe, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Ed Magazine and Usable Knowledge blog, Education Week, Educational Leadership Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Washington Post’s Answer Sheet Blog, The National Council for the Social Studies, The 74, and Huffington Post.In addition to her teaching, Jessica has served as a district-wide family engagement coach, a mentor teacher, and as an education consultant for national and state education policy organizations. She has worked with schools, districts and the Massachusetts’ Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to lead professional development trainings, served on DESE’s Teacher Advisory Cabinet advising the department on education policy, and currently serves on DESE’s Parent and Community Education and Involvement Advisory Committee. Jessica co-authored DESE’s “Civics Project Guidebook”, a document to support state teachers in implementing action civics following the recent passage of an innovative civics education law in the state and and new statewide social studies standards, and she has advised and consulted on the curricula for the national civics nonprofit Generation Citizen. In 2019, Jessica and fourteen of her former students launched the national We Are America Project, working with teachers across the country to support more than 1500 students sharing their stories of American Identity. Jessica is a Re-Imagining Migration Fellow, and was a 2019-2020 Emerson Collective Fellow. \n
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2021
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