Full Description
This book provides the most up-to-date research on identity safe practices and how to ensure that they occur both at home and at school. Today's schools serve students and families with a diversity of identities. While diversity enriches the school community, educators are becoming increasingly aware of the vast number of students subjected to identity-related adverse childhood experiences and inequitable practices. To mitigate the negative impacts of oppression on marginalised identities, this book shows educators how they can work together with parents/guardians to support all students' well-being and success. Each chapter of this book covers a core practice of identity safe classrooms, explains how to extend those practices school wide, and discusses how to share these practices with families to implement at home. Teachers, school leaders, counsellors, social workers, and others can use this guide to foster strength-based and culturally responsive home-school partnerships in all that they do.Book Features:
A practical guide for home-school partnerships that supports safety and a sense of belonging, value, and competence.
Research-based, home-school practices that support the positive identity development of Pre-K-12 students.
Portraits of students, parents, educators, and others from racially, culturally, linguistically, ethnically, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, and impoverished communities.
Guidance for countering the harm caused by stereotype threats, othering, and identity erasure.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. Understanding Identity Safety
What Is Identity Safety, and Why Does It Matter?
Taking Action
Partnerships Between Home and School
Looking Ahead
Additional Resources2. Creating a Culture of Caring
What Is a Culture of Trust and Caring, and Why Does It Matter?
Taking Action
Child Development as an Ever-Growing, Expanding, Interactional Process
Partnerships Between Home and School
Looking Ahead
Additional Resources3. Understanding Our Own Identity
Why Is It Important to Explore Our Own Identities?
Understanding the Phenomena of Racial Trauma in Addition to Adverse Childhood Experiences
How Can We Examine Our Own Implicit and Explicit Biases to Support Identity Safe Spaces?
Self-Reflection as a Life-Long Process
Partnerships Between Home and School
Looking Ahead
Additional Resources4. Supporting Positive Identity Development
What Is Positive Identity Development, and Why It Matters?
Taking Action
Partnerships Between Home and School
Looking Ahead
Additional Resources5. Harnessing the Power of Connectedness, Cooperation, and Compassion
What Are Connection, Cooperation, and Compassion, and Why Do They Matter?
Taking Action
Partnerships With Home and School
Looking Ahead
Additional Resources6. Building Empowerment, Agency, and Resilience
What Are Empowerment, Agency, and Resilience, and Why Do They Matter?
Taking Action
Partnerships Between Home and School
Looking Ahead
Additional Resources7. Moving Away From "Same Old Habits" to Professional Growth
The Changing Role That Educators Can Enact: Moving Away From the "Same Old Habits"
Supporting Identity Safe Practices at Home
Engaging in a Cycle of Inquiry
Tools for Engaging Families
Professional Growth Tools for Evaluating, Strengthening, and Celebrating Home-School Partnerships
Closing Thoughts
Additional ResourcesReferences
Index
About the Authors
