Leading With a Culture of Caring: Ways to Create Identity Safe Spaces at Home and School

Debbie Zacarian and Becki Cohn-Vargas When Francisco Lopez was twelve, he and his parents moved from Santiago, Brazil, to a small town in Massachusetts, where his father began working as a Portuguese professor at a university.  Accompanied by his parents, Francisco enrolled in a local middle school, where his father …

Teaching MLs Podcast with Tan Huyhn on Identity Safe Spaces

Tan Huyhn, Becki Cohn-Vargas, and Debbie Zacarian This podcast, hosted by Tan Huynh, provides a window into the book Identity Safe Spaces at Home and School: Partnering to Overcome Inequity. Co-authors Becki Cohn-Vargas and Debbie Zacarian discuss the research on identity safety as it applies to multidiverse students. They also …