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, highlighting its research-based, practical approach to identity safety, belonging, equity, and school-family partnerships.
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.
Explore professional learning resources that help educators use a strengths-based approach to support students facing adversity by recognizing their assets and creating environments where they can thrive.
Strengthening programs for multilingual learners requires policies, practices, and structures that recognize students’ strengths, engage families as partners, and create meaningful opportunities for students to participate and thrive.
Three practical strategies can help schools recognize family strengths, strengthen communication, and build meaningful partnerships with families of multilingual learners.
A strengths-based approach helps educators recognize and build on the language, culture, experiences, and assets multilingual learners and their families bring to school.
Jobi Lawrence and Debbie Zacarian, Ed.D., discuss strengths-based approaches to supporting students living with adversity and fostering student agency, self-confidence, collaboration, and meaningful participation in learning.
In this episode of Corwin’s Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast, Debbie Zacarian speaks with Peter DeWitt about the developments that led to the second edition of Transforming Schools for Multilingual Learners and what they mean for schools today.
The second edition of Transforming Schools for Multilingual Learners provides educators and school leaders with research-based guidance for creating effective, equitable policies, practices, and learning environments for multilingual learners.
