Self-Awareness and Identity

Staff will deepen their self-awareness as they examine their own identity and reflect on the identity of their students.

• Self-awareness is a critical social emotional learning skill for both students and adults.
• Reflecting and learning about your identity can help increase your own self-awareness.
• A person’s identity is informed by many things that may be visible or invisible including one’s race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, familial roles, career and personal history.
• As an educator it is important to know yourself well and be willing to share who you are.
• The many identities of your students’ shape their experiences in the classroom.

Progress monitoring is a the way your team will continually cycle through planning, implementing and evaluating your strategies as you go. For each of the activities listed above, have your team take the time to think through these questions before, during and after.

Planning Questions before you do an activity/step with staff:

• How will we know if this activity/step is successful?
• What training, resources or other support will staff need beforehand?

Implementation Questions as you prepare to implement the activity/step:

• What contextual factors may impact how this activity goes? (Recent events, time of year, other demands) How will we address them?
• What resistance are we anticipating? How will we address it?

Evaluation Questions to reflect on after you complete an activity/step:

• What percentage of staff participated in the activity?
• What went well? What could have gone better?
• Did staff find the activity valuable? Why or why not?
• What percentage of staff were able to apply their learning?

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