Assistant Professor Michelle Aguilera published this 2022 article in Research in the Teaching of English, demonstrating the ways in which a third-grade teacher in the Southwest responded to students’ concerns about Trump’s rhetoric about immigration and constructing a border wall throughout his campaign and inauguration. Through the collection of field notes, interviews, and students’ writing, this work showed that students were able to learn about immigration policy and develop disciplinary skills via their teacher’s leveraging of their curriculum and positioning themselves as change agents.