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Homelessness on Education |\n\nKarla Smart-Morstad, Sara Triggs, & Teri Langlie, Concordia College, Minnesota  \nAbstract  \nHomeless education is studied through qualitative teacher research. This article reports the perspectives and experiences of a school administrator, social worker, teacher, and Family Shelter school-to-shelter liaison in describing their experiences with homeless elementary students and their parents. College faculty did the research to prepare for a teacher education foundations course for preservice teachers.  \nKeywords: homeless education, k-12 education, homeless immigrant education, socialfoundations teacher education, teacher research  \nIntroduction  \nOur changing community: food banks with empty shelves unable to provide enough food for families during the summer months when children are out of school; men and women on street corners across town holding signs pleading for money, food or shelter; and, five homeless shelters all over capacity. Additional community challenges include complications such as language and cultural barriers that arise with an influx of refugees to the shelters, and stereotypes of the homeless that pollute the community, largely uneducated on the shelter population and issues surrounding homelessness. Our campus: a small Lutheran liberal arts college consisting primarily of white middle to upper class individuals. The dilemma: how to assist our students, teacher education majors, in understanding the realities of life for children and parents who are poor, diverse, and homeless.  \nAn Education Foundations Course  \nOur students are teacher education majors preparing for careers in elementary, middle, and secondary schools. Social justice is valued on our campus, a liberal arts college of approximately 2,700 students in the upper mid-west. Service projects and service learning bring students into the larger community in varied ways, some day-long events and others involving commitment overtime.  \nFor our students to not only meet the college’s mission of being responsibly engaged in the world, but to teach well, it is important that they prepare to interact with the diverse families of the students they will serve. Education 212: American Education in a Diverse Society, is the initial foundations course in their curriculum. In that semester-long experience, which includes a field  \nplacement in an English language learning classroom, students read about and research the ethnic backgrounds of public school children in the United States. They investigate and present contemporary as well as historical issues. But, we came to recognize that the local issue of homelessness and homeless education were not being adequately addressed through students’ reading, research, and class presentations.  \nWe read articles on homeless education, discussed the McKinney-Vento Act ([http://www.naehcy.org](http://www.naehcy.org)), and watched The PBS Frontline documentary Poor Kids ([www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/poor-kids](www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/poor-kids)) which follows five rural Iowa families as they lose their housing and resettle into motels or shelters. These provided a glimpse into homelessness, but our role as educators and the reality of working with homeless students was left relatively untouched. Clearly the impact of poverty and homelessness on a child or adolescent in school is powerful and must be considered by educators. Shepard and Booth (2009) wrote “…studies have documented that pre-service teachers from White, middle-class, and monolingual backgrounds tend to have stereotypical beliefs or misunderstandings toward children from diverse backgrounds”(p. 162) . 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