Editing Refugee (section)

===Overcoming obstacles===
All students need some form of support to help them overcome obstacles and challenges they may face in their lives, especially refugee children who may experience frequent disruptions. There are a few ways in which schools can help refugee students overcome obstacles to attain success in their new homes:<ref name="Mcbrien"/>
* Respect the cultural differences amongst refugees and the new home culture
* Individual efforts to welcome refugees to prevent feelings of isolation
* Educator support
* Student centered pedagogy as opposed to teacher centered
* Building relationships with the students
* Offering praise and providing [[Affirmations (New Age)|affirmations]]
* Providing extensive support and designing curriculum for students to read, write, and speak in their native languages.<ref name="Mendenhall">{{cite journal | last1 = Mendenhall | first1 = M. | last2 = Bartlett | first2 = L. | last3 = Ghaffar-Kucher | first3 = A. | year = 2016 | title = "If You Need Help, They are Always There for us": Education for Refugees in an International High School in NYC | journal = The Urban Review | volume = 49 | issue = 1| pages = 1–25 | doi = 10.1007/s11256-016-0379-4 | s2cid = 151360887 }}</ref>
One school in NYC has found a method that works for them to help refugee students succeed. This school creates support for language and literacies, which promotes students using English and their native languages to complete projects. Furthermore, they have a learning centered [[pedagogy]], which promotes the idea that there are multiple entry points to engage the students in learning.<ref name="Mendenhall"/> Both strategies have helped refugee students succeed during their transition into US schools.

Various websites contain resources that can help school staff better learn to work with refugee students such as [http://www.brycs.org/publications/schools-toolkit.cfm Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922192216/http://www.brycs.org/publications/schools-toolkit.cfm |date=22 September 2018 }}. With the support of educators and the school community, education can help rebuild the academic, social, and emotional well-being of refugee students who have suffered from past and present [[Psychological trauma|trauma]], [[Social exclusion|marginalization]], and [[social alienation]].