The purpose of this Equity Brief is to highlight the importance of supporting refugee students in the classroom. Educators must be Culturally Competent and aware of their students social, emotional, and academic needs. Understanding the values, norms, funds of knowledge, and lived experiences of all historically marginalized students is important and even more so for students who are refugees. Oftentimes, students who are refugees have experienced many challenging situations including political conflicts, and war. Although this publication focuses on students from Somalia the content is certainly applicable to other groups of student refugees.