Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/what-about-the-children-teaching-and-learning-at-nest-tijuana/5025256/
With every article, every news special, and every tweet about the immigration crisis, our hearts ache: what about the children? As educators, we live and breathe best practices in early childhood: we know it is not just our job and our passion, but our moral obligation to show up for every child and share what we know about child development with others. Fifty miles from our school—next door yet across a border, nearby but a world away—the Nest calls us, and teachers like us, to action, encouraging us to create the answers that we seek.
Over our Thanksgiving break, we spent five days serving at the Nest, walking across the border into Mexico each morning and returning to the United States each evening. The harsh irony of the ease with which we could do so was not lost on us. For Keri, going to the Nest was a quick decision: it was necessary to see the impacts of a political situation outside of her control and do right by the children caught up in it. For Samantha, it was a return to her roots as a trauma-informed educator and an act of allyship and solidarity. For each of us, the Nest was ...