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Advancing and Advocating for Social Justice & Equity


Positive Social Identities

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Students develop language, as well as historical and cultural knowledge, that affirms and accurately describes their membership in multiple identity groups (such as identities related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, language, ability, religion, socioeconomic status, age, and geography). They recognize how peoples' multiple identities interact to create unique and complex individuals. Students express pride, confidence and healthy self-esteem without denying the value and dignity of other people, and they effectively negotiate differences between their home and community cultures and the dominant culture.


EVIDENCE shows that when curriculum, classroom relationships, and pedagogy directly address students' racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality identities, students can learn to affirm and accurately describe their own membership in multiple identity groups, and recognize how peoples' multiple identities interact to create unique and complex individuals.

How Pang Xiong approaches language identities in her third grade classroomHow fourth grade teacher Marisol Moreno develops positive social identities in her classroom
 
 

EVIDENCE shows that students can learn to express pride, confidence and healthy self-esteem without denying the value and dignity of other people, through a curriculum, pedagogy and classroom relationships that affirm their ethnic, racial, gender, and other identities.
 

How Pang Xiong's Hmong Club builds pride and confidence of Hmong studentsHow kindergarten teacher Angela Sandford affirms her students' curiosity and sense of ethnic identity
  
JUMP to these additional Student Outcomes:

Academic Identities    Positive academic identities

    Respectful engagement with diverse people

    Social justice consciousness

    Social justice action


FIND additional resources on these pages: 
    Case Studies: Pedagogy in Action

     FAQs on Multicultural Learning

     TEDx Talks by NAME Members


      Resources for Professional Development