3ps In A Pod

Are you familiar with identity safety and what that looks like in your classroom? Dr. Becki Cohn-Vargas joins 3Ps in a Pod hosts Angelia and Kathleen to talk about identity safe teaching and identity safe classrooms. Dr. Cohn-Vargas and Dr. Dorothy Steele authored the book Identity Safe Classrooms: Places to Belong and Learn. Dr. Cohn-Vargas also authored Identity Safe Classrooms: Pathways to Belonging and Learning with Alexandrea Creer Kahn and Amy Epstein in 2021. She speaks to both of these publications in this podcast episode.  In this episode, Dr. Cohn-Vargas shares about how she first learned and began exploring identity safety before describing the role and importance of the four domains of identity safe classrooms: student-centered teaching, cultivating diversity as a resource, classroom relationships, and caring classroom environments. She then outlines some ways teachers can intentionally and mindfully work toward more identity safe classrooms. Learn more about identity safe classrooms at identitysa