Overview:

On today’s show, host Lori Boll speaks with Daniel Wickner the founder of Identity-Centered Learning, a framework for supporting students’ identity development in schools.This work builds on culturally-relevant, responsive, and sustaining pedagogies and is informed by his own biracial, multicultural, and multilingual identity, along with his thirteen years in international education. Daniel discusses his own background in schools and the impact that had on him as well as what he means by identity centered education. Lori and Daniel also discuss changing systems rather than students and how we, as educators need to become “Identity Experts” for our students as they go through their own identity journeys.

Daniel Wickner (he/him/his) is the founder of Identity-Centered Learning (www.identity centered.com), a framework for supporting students’ identity development in schools. This work builds on culturally-relevant, responsive, and sustaining pedagogies and is informed by his own biracial, multicultural, and multilingual identity, along with his thirteen years in international education. He currently teaches third grade at Hong Kong International School and supports schools as a consultant in the areas of identity and DEIJ.