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Identity Safe Classrooms, Grades K-5: Places to Belong and Learn
Invaluable teacher vignettes, reflective exercises, and practical advice make this comprehensively researched guide a must for building inclusive, academically challenging classrooms where "all" students thrive!
232 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 3, 2013
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January 18, 2019
One of the best “professional development” books I have read — I felt like it had the right mix of theory, immediately applicable strategies, and sections that prompted me to reflect on my own practice. While there seems to be an elementary slant to this book with the teachers they interviewed, overall I felt like this book captured what I am striving to create in my classroom and gave me a lot to reconsider as well. This is one I’ll be hanging on to!
September 9, 2021
Dr. Steele and Dr. Cohn-Vargas present us with and engaging new way to navigate a long, deeply rooted racially charged society. Sometimes we are unaware of simple actions that affect our children, but this wonderful book seeks to engage the teacher in an easy, yet powerful way. I recommend it to everyone wanting to interact with our culturally rich world in a sensitive and more enriching way. Perfect for teachers and educators. A must read!
December 24, 2017
A lot of great theory and some nice vignettes of how this was put into practice. I felt myself wanting a few more strategies at the end of each chapter.
February 13, 2016
This was one of three books that we could choose to read as a (elementary school) staff last summer in preparation for some professional development around cultural competency. The ideas were good, but fairly vague in their application in the classroom. A few anecdotes to illustrate certain ideas, but nothing really concrete to try to apply. I agreed with almost everything in the book, although almost none of it felt particularly new or enlightening. If your school is very traditional or its pedagogical approach is based around discipline and teacher authority, this would be a good book to read as a staff to begin moving to a more whole-child approach.
The one big idea that I came away with was the idea of "stereotype threat"- the idea that a person's behavior or performance can be negatively affected by the fear that they will accidentally do or say something that will reinforce a negative stereotype that already exists for a group with which they identify. The author did not come up with the idea of stereotype threat, but this was my first encounter with the term, so it was new to me as I read.
The one big idea that I came away with was the idea of "stereotype threat"- the idea that a person's behavior or performance can be negatively affected by the fear that they will accidentally do or say something that will reinforce a negative stereotype that already exists for a group with which they identify. The author did not come up with the idea of stereotype threat, but this was my first encounter with the term, so it was new to me as I read.
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