Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools: A Guide for Educational Leaders
Autor Becki Cohn-Vargas, Alexandrea Creer Kahn, Amy Epstein, Kathe Gogolewskien Limba Engleză Electronic book text – 10 aug 2021
Students of all backgrounds reach their full potential when they feel a sense of belonging and inclusion. When their social identities are valued as assets rather than barriers to learning, they flourish. This guide provides evidence-based strategies that support you as a leader in creating an environment that promotes identity safe students, who experience a challenging curriculum that respects their diverse social identities.
Features in the bookinclude:
- Guiding principles for student voice, equalizing status and cultivating acceptance across race, ethnicity, gender and other differences
- Ideas and examples for anti-racist dialogue and activities for teachers and students that counter colorblind practices, stereotype threat and biases
- Vignettes, and examples of identity safe practices for students and adult learning for staff, families and the community
- Systems for student-centered assessment and data collection
- Resources for developing equitable school policies and a comprehensive identity safety plan for your school
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781071835807
ISBN-10: 1071835807
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN-10: 1071835807
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
Recenzii
"Belonging
and
Inclusion
in
Identity
Safe
Schools:
A
Guide
for
Educational
Leadersis
a
timely
and
important
book.
For
several
years,
the
nation's
schools
have
been
asked
to
focus
their
energies
on
raising
student
achievement.
However,
too
often
educators
have
ignored
the
need
to
honor,
support
and
affirm
the
identities
of
the
students
they
serve.
For
educators
who
serve
children
of
color,
particularly
Black,
Native
American
and
Latinx
children
who
are
often
subject
to
overt
and
covert
forms
of
forced
assimilation,
this
book
will
be
an
invaluable
resource
on
how
to
create
learning
opportunities
that
make
it
possible
for
such
children
to
thrive."
"Bravo to authors Cohn-Vargas, Gogolewski, Creer Kahn, and Epstein for their ground-breaking book on Identify Safe Schools for administrators, teachers, and staff leaders! They provide much-needed evidence for educators to elevate and even inspire the equity, empowerment, and academic growth needed to wholly support all children to flourish in school and their lives."
"Based on a robust foundation of researched evidence and theory, and embracing ‘targeted universalism’,Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schoolsoffers specific strategies for achieving systemic equity in schooling. The emphasis is on disrupting racism, but the integrative approach supports identity safety and enhanced belonging for a range of diverse student identities, and incorporates trauma-informed practices. Pathways toward transformative change are clearly set out for school leaders, teachers, families, and the community, across planning and assessment, and within school-wide systems. A unique blueprint for joyfully celebrating social identities as an asset rather than a barrier, equitably valuing all identities, and for affording voice and influence to diverse members of the school communities is presented. Importantly, the organic nature of identity is respected and the capacity of school leaders in creating identity safe spaces where ongoing conversation between and understanding of richly diverse identities can be fostered is foregrounded. In this powerful work, the authors urge us to face up to the uncomfortable truth that schools may not always be identity safe spaces and offer great hope for a positive and practical way forward."
Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools: A Guide for Educational Leadersis an extraordinary book that should be read by teachers of all grade levels throughout the United States and beyond. Time is long overdue for this book that explains many of the inequalities in all areas of our institutions, from education to housing to incarceration…. The authors make clear how investment in a more inclusive society results in benefits for all people. I commend the authors!
I applaud the authors’ focus on identity safety in the school community. Their approach celebrates and embraces unity in diversity. The identity safe approach goes beyond creating a physically safe school to addressing an emotionally safe school community. In an identity safe school, students embrace being themselves and can truly belong as unique individuals rather than try to fit into a stereotypical mold. The book's examples clarify what is unconscious “othering” and color blind behavior versus identity safe practices. This book is for everyone in the school community who cares enough to take action to influence a school's culture both in and outside of the classroom.
The book's formatting is so user-friendly. The format allows the school educator/ leader to go directly to the area their school wants to focus on for improvement. After reading Chapter One, which presents their approach and philosophy, the reader has the tools needed to use this book to focus on specific changes they want to implement and go directly to the chapter that speaks to race, religion, gender, etc., issues.
Each chapter addresses why a specific issue matters, followed by concrete examples of how to implement change. The talking points and questions for self-reflection add depth to the tools being taught to create identity-safe schools. Masterfully written for practical application!
Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools is brave, bold, and brilliant! Asking "How will each of us contribute to racial justice and educational equity now?" What are ways that each of us has intrinsically adapted behaviors that perpetuate the dysfunction of our society into the shaping of our children? Taking a systems approach to transform school culture in addressing the well-being of the whole child, every child, Belonging... unfolds a powerful strategy to guide us through the process. This is so fundamental to our healthy survival as interdependent beings. A must-read, a restorative practice!
Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools: A Guide for Educational Leaders offers sound research, inspiration, and well-tested resources and strategies for education leaders committed to creating inclusive, equitable, and thriving schools. It provides both the theory and the tools to strengthen inclusion and equity through professional development, coaching, partnership with parents and families, data and assessment, discipline, school governance, and more. It teaches how these approaches weave together as a system to support all students, educators, and families to their fullest potential. The many brilliant scholars and practitioners spotlighted throughout inspire and show the way. Written in accessible and engaging language, this book is a fantastic resource for new and experienced education leaders and teams.
As a former teacher in both secondary and university level education, I highly recommend Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools: A Guide for Educational Leadersfor all educators who want to fully actualize their teaching practices in terms of creating identity safe schools, so crucial to our students’ sense of belonging. In exploring and challenging issues and attitudes entrenched in our educational system, the authors throw a lifeline to catapult ourselves out of the mire of structural inequalities and classroom practices that keep our students from developing as fully educated and valued members of society. Coming on the heels of the pandemic, this book provides the analysis and tools necessary to usher into our schools a solid phase transition.
"Bravo to authors Cohn-Vargas, Gogolewski, Creer Kahn, and Epstein for their ground-breaking book on Identify Safe Schools for administrators, teachers, and staff leaders! They provide much-needed evidence for educators to elevate and even inspire the equity, empowerment, and academic growth needed to wholly support all children to flourish in school and their lives."
"Based on a robust foundation of researched evidence and theory, and embracing ‘targeted universalism’,Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schoolsoffers specific strategies for achieving systemic equity in schooling. The emphasis is on disrupting racism, but the integrative approach supports identity safety and enhanced belonging for a range of diverse student identities, and incorporates trauma-informed practices. Pathways toward transformative change are clearly set out for school leaders, teachers, families, and the community, across planning and assessment, and within school-wide systems. A unique blueprint for joyfully celebrating social identities as an asset rather than a barrier, equitably valuing all identities, and for affording voice and influence to diverse members of the school communities is presented. Importantly, the organic nature of identity is respected and the capacity of school leaders in creating identity safe spaces where ongoing conversation between and understanding of richly diverse identities can be fostered is foregrounded. In this powerful work, the authors urge us to face up to the uncomfortable truth that schools may not always be identity safe spaces and offer great hope for a positive and practical way forward."
Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools: A Guide for Educational Leadersis an extraordinary book that should be read by teachers of all grade levels throughout the United States and beyond. Time is long overdue for this book that explains many of the inequalities in all areas of our institutions, from education to housing to incarceration…. The authors make clear how investment in a more inclusive society results in benefits for all people. I commend the authors!
I applaud the authors’ focus on identity safety in the school community. Their approach celebrates and embraces unity in diversity. The identity safe approach goes beyond creating a physically safe school to addressing an emotionally safe school community. In an identity safe school, students embrace being themselves and can truly belong as unique individuals rather than try to fit into a stereotypical mold. The book's examples clarify what is unconscious “othering” and color blind behavior versus identity safe practices. This book is for everyone in the school community who cares enough to take action to influence a school's culture both in and outside of the classroom.
The book's formatting is so user-friendly. The format allows the school educator/ leader to go directly to the area their school wants to focus on for improvement. After reading Chapter One, which presents their approach and philosophy, the reader has the tools needed to use this book to focus on specific changes they want to implement and go directly to the chapter that speaks to race, religion, gender, etc., issues.
Each chapter addresses why a specific issue matters, followed by concrete examples of how to implement change. The talking points and questions for self-reflection add depth to the tools being taught to create identity-safe schools. Masterfully written for practical application!
Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools is brave, bold, and brilliant! Asking "How will each of us contribute to racial justice and educational equity now?" What are ways that each of us has intrinsically adapted behaviors that perpetuate the dysfunction of our society into the shaping of our children? Taking a systems approach to transform school culture in addressing the well-being of the whole child, every child, Belonging... unfolds a powerful strategy to guide us through the process. This is so fundamental to our healthy survival as interdependent beings. A must-read, a restorative practice!
Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools: A Guide for Educational Leaders offers sound research, inspiration, and well-tested resources and strategies for education leaders committed to creating inclusive, equitable, and thriving schools. It provides both the theory and the tools to strengthen inclusion and equity through professional development, coaching, partnership with parents and families, data and assessment, discipline, school governance, and more. It teaches how these approaches weave together as a system to support all students, educators, and families to their fullest potential. The many brilliant scholars and practitioners spotlighted throughout inspire and show the way. Written in accessible and engaging language, this book is a fantastic resource for new and experienced education leaders and teams.
As a former teacher in both secondary and university level education, I highly recommend Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools: A Guide for Educational Leadersfor all educators who want to fully actualize their teaching practices in terms of creating identity safe schools, so crucial to our students’ sense of belonging. In exploring and challenging issues and attitudes entrenched in our educational system, the authors throw a lifeline to catapult ourselves out of the mire of structural inequalities and classroom practices that keep our students from developing as fully educated and valued members of society. Coming on the heels of the pandemic, this book provides the analysis and tools necessary to usher into our schools a solid phase transition.
Cuprins
About
the
Authors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Prologue
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Identity Safe Schools
Chapter 2: Leadership for an Identity Safe School
Chapter 3: Adult Learning in Service of an Identity Safe School
Chapter 4: Data and Assessment for an Identity Safe School
Chapter 5: Identity Safe Partnerships with Families and the Community
Chapter 6: Coherence and Congruence
Chapter 7: Planning and Implementing Schoolwide Identity Safety
Epilogue: Closing Thoughts
Appendix
Appendix A: Equitable Data Inquiry Preparation Guide: Preparing for Equitable Data Dialogue, Analysis, and Reflection
Appendix B: Identity Safe Staff Self-Reflection Activity
Appendix C: Identity Safe Classroom Practices: Teacher Self-Assessment
Appendix D: Identity Safe Classroom Observation Form
Appendix E: Inquiry Calendar Planner
Appendix F: We–Why Reflection Tool
Appendix G: Identity Safe Formative Assessment Feedback Loop Reflection Questions & Planner
Appendix H: Developmentally Appropriate Conversations About Race and Gender With Children and Youth: Tips for Educators and Parents/Caregivers
Appendix I: Grades 3–5 Student Identity Safe Classroom Survey
Appendix J: Grades 6–12 Student Identity Safe Classroom Survey
Appendix K: Identity Safe Signature Strategies Spreadsheet
References
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Prologue
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Identity Safe Schools
Chapter 2: Leadership for an Identity Safe School
Chapter 3: Adult Learning in Service of an Identity Safe School
Chapter 4: Data and Assessment for an Identity Safe School
Chapter 5: Identity Safe Partnerships with Families and the Community
Chapter 6: Coherence and Congruence
Chapter 7: Planning and Implementing Schoolwide Identity Safety
Epilogue: Closing Thoughts
Appendix
Appendix A: Equitable Data Inquiry Preparation Guide: Preparing for Equitable Data Dialogue, Analysis, and Reflection
Appendix B: Identity Safe Staff Self-Reflection Activity
Appendix C: Identity Safe Classroom Practices: Teacher Self-Assessment
Appendix D: Identity Safe Classroom Observation Form
Appendix E: Inquiry Calendar Planner
Appendix F: We–Why Reflection Tool
Appendix G: Identity Safe Formative Assessment Feedback Loop Reflection Questions & Planner
Appendix H: Developmentally Appropriate Conversations About Race and Gender With Children and Youth: Tips for Educators and Parents/Caregivers
Appendix I: Grades 3–5 Student Identity Safe Classroom Survey
Appendix J: Grades 6–12 Student Identity Safe Classroom Survey
Appendix K: Identity Safe Signature Strategies Spreadsheet
References
Descriere
Lead
an
identity
safe
learning
community
where
students
of
all
backgrounds
thrive
Students of all backgrounds reach their full potential when they feel a sense of belonging and inclusion. When their social identities are valued as assets rather than barriers to learning, they flourish. This guide provides evidence-based strategies that support you as a leader in creating an environment that promotes identity safe students, who experience a challenging curriculum that respects their diverse social identities.
Features in the bookinclude:
Students of all backgrounds reach their full potential when they feel a sense of belonging and inclusion. When their social identities are valued as assets rather than barriers to learning, they flourish. This guide provides evidence-based strategies that support you as a leader in creating an environment that promotes identity safe students, who experience a challenging curriculum that respects their diverse social identities.
Features in the bookinclude:
- Guiding principles for student voice, equalizing status and cultivating acceptance across race, ethnicity, gender and other differences
- Ideas and examples for anti-racist dialogue and activities for teachers and students that counter colorblind practices, stereotype threat and biases
- Vignettes, and examples of identity safe practices for students and adult learning for staff, families and the community
- Systems for student-centered assessment and data collection
- Resources for developing equitable school policies and a comprehensive identity safety plan for your school