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.

Evelin's book is part of the basis for her work with the Frontier Regional school community. The purpose of this book is to illuminate a theory of youth engagement in restorative justice that seeks to create systems change for more equitable schools. The authors define youth engagement in restorative justice as partnering with young people most impacted by structural injustice as changemakers in all aspects of restorative practices including community building, healing, and the transformation of institutions. Based on Adam Fletcher’s version of the Ladder of Youth Engagement, coupled with Barbara Love’s model of liberatory consciousness and an analysis of youth engagement in Restorative Justice in three different regions—Western Massachusetts, Oakland, and Houston—the authors provide a theoretical contribution: Youth Engagement in Restorative Justice grounded in liberatory consciousness.

Angelica C. Castro, M.A., CPC is CEO and Co-Founder of Castro Collaborative, "Engineering Inclusive Excellence with a Heart-Centered Approach." She leads a team of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Professionals who work with organizations and institutions to co-create a safe, supportive and inclusive work environment for all leaders, employees and customers, to ensure growth, innovation and success. She also serves as the Associate Director of Community Engagement at Mt. Holyoke College, where she received her Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology and teaches Building Bridges: Facilitating Courageous Conversations. She received her Graduate Certificate in Social Justice Education: Teaching for Diversity at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she teaches Race and Global Leadership in Predominantly White Institutions. She serves on the Racial Equity and Justice Institute Committee for Leading for Change Consortium in partnership with MIT and numerous other institutions. She has 20+ years of experience as an executive consultant and cultural strategist, and is a certified leadership coach, community mediator, and yoga and meditation practitioner who specializes in organizational development, intergroup dialogue facilitation and restorative justice.