The document discusses creating safe spaces in schools. It addresses what safe spaces are, where they exist in schools, and why some spaces feel safer than others. The presentation covers topics like defining safe spaces, identifying currently existing safe spaces and why students seek them out, and ways to increase safety in schools such as building trust, addressing behaviors, and overcoming historical impacts. Suggestions are provided around representation, feedback, treatment of students, and protecting student identities.

1. Creating Safe Spaces in School
Abington Friends School
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Seattle Girls’ School
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2. Agenda
 What’s a Safe Space Anyway?
 Where Are the Safe Spaces?
 Why Aren’t Other Spaces as Safe?
 What Can We Do to Increase Safety?
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3. Safe Spaces
 What are examples of
your own safe spaces?
 What do safe spaces
feel like?
 Are any of these
“safety from”
something?
 What is the value of a
safe space for you?
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4. Chalk Talk on Safe Spaces
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5. Where are the Safe Spaces?
At Abington Friends, are
there times/locations that
are safe spaces for youth?
Where are they? Who
congregates there?
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6. Why Do They Exist?
Why do youth seek out
these safe spaces? What is
the value of safe spaces for
youth?
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7. School or Self Generated?
Which spaces are school
sanctioned/organized?
Which spaces are self-
generated? What are the
differences in these
spaces?
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8. Who Gets to Enter Safe Spaces?
Are any “outsiders” let
in? If not, why not? If
so, who gains entry into
these spaces, and why?
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9. Unsafe Spaces?
Are there other spaces
as safe? What is their
experience in the rest
of the school that
youth seek safe
spaces?
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10. What Can We Do
to Increase Safety?
- Increasing Trust
- Distinguishing
Behaviors
- Overcoming History
and Impact
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11. Do You See Me?
- Representation on the
Walls
- Representation in the
Curriculum
- Interest in Personal
Story (Sharing of
Personal Story)
- Interactions In and Out
of the Classroom
- Demonstration of Care
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12. Do You Hear Me?
- - Incorporation of Prior
Knowledge and
Experience
- - Seeking and Responding
to Student Feedback
- - Student Choice in the
Curriculum
- - Empathy Reflex
- - Authoritative Discipline
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13. Will You Treat Me Fairly?
- Clear and High
Expectations
- Equal Discipline and
Rewards
- Support in Struggle and
Push in Success
- Consistent and
Predictable Assessment
- Different Kinds of
Success
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14. Will You Protect Me?
- Understanding of
Identity and
Experience
- Interruption of
Exclusive or
Oppressive Behavior
- Teaching Cultural and
Power Difference
- Encouragement of
and Practice with
Collaboration
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15. You Win Some, You Lose Some
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16. Stretching the Inclusive Boundaries
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17. Ah Ha’s and D’OH!s
- What are some new insights about what helps
create safety for students in the classroom?
- What already existing practices do you now realize
help students feel safer in your classroom?
- What already existing practices do you now realize
hinder students’ sense of safety in your classroom?
- What practices do you think create unintentionally
unsafe spaces?
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18. Sharing the Wisdom
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19. Presenter Information
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
6th Faculty and
Professional Outreach
Seattle Girls’ School
2706 S Jackson Street
Seattle WA 98144
(206) 805-6562
rlee@seattlegirlsschool.org
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20. Identity Resources
• Carlos H. Arce, “A Reconsideration of Chicano Culture
and Identity”
• Atkinson, Morten, & Sue, “Racial/Cultural Identity
Development Model (R/CID)”
• Mindy Bingham and Sandy Stryker, “Socioemotional
Development for Girls”
• Vivienne Cass, “Homosexual identity formation: Testing a
theoretical model”
• William Cross, Shades of Black: Diversity in African
American Identity”
• Anthony D’Augelli, “ Identity development and sexual
orientation: Toward a model of lesbian, gay, and
bisexual development”
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21. Identity Resources
• Erik Erikson, “Eight Stages of Man”
• J. E. Helms, Various Publications on Racial and Ethnic
Identity Development
• Jean Kim, “Processes of Asian American Identity
Development”
• James Maricia, “Four Ego and Identity Statuses”
• Suzanne Kobasa Ouellette, “The Three C’s of Hardiness”
• Jean S. Phinney, “Ethnic Identity in Adolescents and
Adults: Review of the Research”
• Ponterotto & Pederso, Preventing Prejudice
• Maria P. P. Root, Various Works on Multiracial Identity
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22. Identity Resources
• Patricia Romney, Karlene Ferron, and Jennifer Hill,
“Measuring the Success of Diversity Directors in
Independent Schools”
• Pedro Ruiz, “Latino/a Identity Development Model”
• Chalmer E. Thompson and Robert T. Carter, Racial
Identity Theory
• Alex Wilson, “How We Find Ourselves: Identity
Development and Two Spirit People”
• Christine J. Yeh, “The Collectivistic Nature of Identity
Development Among Asian-American College
Students”
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23. Resources
 Joshua M. Aronson, Ph.D., “Improving Achievement &
Narrowing the Gap,” Learning and the Brain
Conference, Cambridge, MA, November 2003
 Allan G. Johnson, Privilege, Power, and Difference.
 Miss Representation, documentary film on media and
women
 United Nations Population Fund Statistics on Gender
Equality as of 2005
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2005/presskit/factsheets/facts
_gender.htm
 Learning to be critically literate of mass media
http://www.medialit.org/
 Media Guide for Parents and Educators
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/
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24. Gender Specific Resources
 Jennifer Bryan, various trainings and publications on gender
and sexuality diversity, From the Dress Up Corner to the
Senior Prom
 JoAnn Deak, Ph.D., Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and
Courageous Daughters, How Girls Thrive
 Jackson Katz, Tough Guise, Wrestling with Manhood, The
Macho Paradox
 John Medina, Talaris Research Institute, various studies on
early gender differences in competition and play
 Mary Pipher, Ph.D., Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of
Adolescent Girls
 Rachel Simmons, Odd Girl Out, Odd Girl Speaks Out, Curse
of the Good Girl
 Michael Thompson, Raising Cain, Speaking of Boys, It’s a
Boy!
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25. Miscellaneous Resources
• Karen Bradberry and Johnnie Foreman, “Privilege and
Power,” Summer Diversity Institute, National Association
of Independent Schools, 2009
• Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, Nurture Shock
• Kevin Jennings, GLSEN (Gay Lesbian and Straight Education
Network) www.glsen.org
• Allan G. Johnson, Privilege, Power, and Difference
• Johnnie McKinley, “Leveling the Playing Field and Raising
African American Students’ Achievement in Twenty-nine
Urban Classrooms,” New Horizons for Learning,
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/differentiated/
mckinley.htm
Michael J Nakkula and Eric Toshalis, Understanding Youth.
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