Jessica Lander, Author of Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education and Winner of the 2024 George Orwell Book Award
Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. CT
English Honor Societies is partnering with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to provide this experience to our communities.
Jessica Lander is a teacher, author, and advocate who teaches history and civics to recent immigrant students in a Massachusetts public high school. A 2021 Global Teacher Prize Top 50 Finalist and the 2023 Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year, she has taught in the US, Thailand, and Cambodia. She is the author of Making Americans (Beacon Press, 2022), a deep look at immigrant education, and co-author of Powerful Partnerships (Scholastic, 2017). Her work on education has appeared in The Boston Globe, Education Week, and The Washington Post. Jessica also consults on state and national education policy and co-founded the We Are America Project, supporting over 1,500 students in telling their stories of American identity.
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Chris Lockwood, NEHS Director
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