Elevating Strengths: Supporting Multilingual Learners Facing Adversity
Discover practical, strengths-based strategies for supporting multilingual learners facing adversity while fostering belonging, engagement, resilience, and high expectations.
Category: school-family partnerships
Empowerment, Agency, and Resilience
How can educators help multilingual learners develop empowerment, agency, and resilience? A strengths-based approach creates identity-safe environments where students can recognize their strengths, exercise their voices and choices, and develop the confidence to navigate challenges.
Empathy: Glue that Holds Us Together
Empathy is essential for building meaningful connections with students, families, colleagues, and communities. Listening attentively, asking thoughtful questions, and seeking to understand others can help educators make empathy a daily practice.
How Schools and Families Can Honor Students’ Identities
When schools and families work together to honor students’ identities, they strengthen belonging, confidence, and agency. Identity-safe, strengths-based practices can help children recognize their strengths, navigate adversity, and advocate for themselves and others.
Teachers College Record Reviews Identity Safe Spaces at Home and School
Teachers College Record reviews Identity Safe Spaces at Home and School, highlighting its research-based, practical approach to identity safety, belonging, equity, and school-family partnerships.
Identity Safety at Home and School: Partnering to Overcome Inequities
Creating identity-safe environments requires meaningful partnerships among schools, families, and communities. Explore how strengths-based practices can foster belonging, agency, resilience, and positive identity development for all students.