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