gold medal recipient of the 2023 ippy awards!
Dr. Talusan’s book The Identity Conscious Educator: Building habits and skills for a more inclusive school is available at Solution Tree Press or wherever books are sold. Dr. Talusan highly recommends purchasing though locally owned and independent stores and sites such as www.bookshop.org
Learn powerful, practical strategies for creating an inclusive school community. The Identity-Conscious Educator provides a framework for building awareness and understanding of five identity categories: race, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. Connect with vignettes and personal stories from the author that illuminate how to address identity topics in your personal and professional life. Then, develop skills in engaging in meaningful interactions with students and peers.
Discover how identity affects both personal and professional lives.
Review a framework for building habits and skills of identity-conscious teaching and learning.
Build knowledge of five different identity categories and experiences—race, social class, sexual orientation, gender, and disability—and then act for positive change.
Reflect with end-of-chapter questions.
Review practical, research-based strategies, and activities for having difficult conversations and creating more inclusive communities.
Is your community reading The Identity Conscious Educator? Contact Liza for a book discussion, presentation, or facilitation through the contact tab above.
While she travels frequently for in-person engagements, Liza’s home is based in Massachusetts on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett people. A portion of the proceeds from her new book are donated to the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (https://www.mcnaa.org/).
Want to advance your learning beyond The Identity-Conscious Educator? Then pick up Liza’s latest book, “Identity-Conscious Practice in Action” which is filled with case studies to apply and practice identity-conscious decision making and responsibility.
