Immigration & Undocumented Students
Identity & Intersectionality
Schooling & Belonging
Theories in Education
Ramon
100
This term describes children who move across national borders with or without authorization to live in a new country
What are immigrant children?
100
This term describes how overlapping identities shape an individual’s lived experiences.
Intersectionality
100
This feeling occurs when students see their identities reflected positively in school.
Belonging
100
This theory argues that racism is pervasive and embedded in everyday systems and structures of society.
Critical Race Theory (CRT)
100
What is Ramon Favorite 3 sports
Baseball, Basketball, and Football.
200
This term describes students who live in the U.S. without legal authorization from the federal government
Undocumented students
200
This scholar coined the term “intersectionality.”
Kimberlé Crenshaw
200
What is the hidden curriculum?
The hidden curriculum is the set of unstated values, norms, and expectations that schools teach indirectly through routines, rules, and interactions—not through official lessons or the written curriculum.
200
This concept, introduced by Gloria Ladson-Billings, describes the accumulated historical, economic, and social inequalities that shape today’s achievement gaps.
Educational Debt
200
Ramon is from Homewood, Illinois. What sport is Homewood known for?
Basketball
300
This 1982 Supreme Court case guaranteed access to K–12 public schooling for undocumented children in the U.S.
Plyler v. Doe
300
A student who is Black, Muslim, and first-generation demonstrates this concept in action.
Overlapping identities example
300
What is a sense of belonging?
A sense of belonging is the feeling that you are accepted, valued, and included in a school community.
300
What is Hegemony?
This theory focuses on how dominant groups maintain power by shaping culture, language, and norms in schools.
300
What is Ramon dream job?
Professor
400
What is DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)?
This federal policy protects eligible undocumented young people from deportation and allows them to work legally in the United States.
400
Why is intersectionality important for understanding students’ experiences in school?
intersectionality shows how overlapping identities create unique experiences with privilege or oppression, helping educators see why two students from the same racial or gender group may still experience school differently.
400
This harmful stereotype, described in Player (2021), flattens Asian American girls’ identities by portraying them as quiet, submissive, and academically perfect
model minority stereotype
400
What is Community Cultural Wealth?
This framework highlights students’ strengths by emphasizing cultural knowledge, family networks, and community wisdom.
400
What degree did Ramon earn in undergrad, and what is he licensed to teach?
History BA with Minor in Secondary Education
High school History
500
This term describes how fear of immigration enforcement discourages immigrant families from accessing schools, healthcare, or reporting crimes, even when they need help.
What is the chilling effect?
500
This identity category is often invisible in classroom discussions unless intentionally centered.
Gender identity
500
What is Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy? Give a classroom example.
Culturally sustaining pedagogy is a teaching approach that supports, values, and preserves students’ cultural traditions, languages, and ways of being. Instead of asking students to “fit in” to one dominant culture, it allows their home cultures to thrive in the classroom.
500
What is Sociocultural Learning Theory (Vygotsky)?
This theory argues that learning happens through social interaction and that identity, culture, and relationships shape how students learn
500
What is Ramon's favorite book series
Hint published in the 1990s
Harry Potter