Adoption & Schools
Check out some of Pact’s most timely and popular publications. For permission to reprint or repost, please contact Beth Hall at beth@pactadopt.org.
by Vera Landry 2009 This past Martin Luther King Day, Pat and I took our two boys to San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora. We looked at photographs and charts detailing how the foods of Africa had migrated to cultures across the world. Oliver and Eric played...
by Pact Staff 2010 We have three transracially-adopted children who are home-schooled. My husband and I are both educators with decades of public school teaching experience. We believe home-schooling of transracially-adopted children is an excellent way to educate and...
by Kevin Hofmann 2012 Kevin Hofmann was born to a white mother and an African American father in Detroit in 1967. He was adopted by a white couple who were already parents to three biological children. At the age of eight, after living for five years in a black...
by Susan Branco 2018 I am a practicing Licensed Professional Counselor and work primarily with transracial adoptive families. When I began my doctoral studies in counselor education and supervision in 2012, I realized that despite significant gains in research related...
2014 Families often consult Pact about how to tell their communities when they have a new baby join their family through adoption. Adoptive parents James and Heidi sent the following letter to parents and teachers in their school community, and gave us permission to...
by Pact Staff updated 2022 Teachers want every student to feel welcomed and included. There are a number of ways that teachers can make sure that adopted children—and other children whose families might be considered “non-traditional”--don’t feel “other-ed.” Family...
In school, children study more than reading and math; they learn how the world operates beyond their own homes. If they are lucky they are taught to search for commonality and to appreciate difference in their classmates and then in their wider community. One way that...