90 minute session delivered to parents and guardians at Friends Academy in North Dartmouth, MA. How do we learn about our various group identities like female, African American, Buddhist, homosexual, middle class, etc.? From whom do we learn the meaning of these terms? What messages have we internalized about ourselves and others? What are the differences that result in one person having a healthy self identity and another person experiencing own-group shame and hatred? Learn how we can co-author the identity development of youth to progress toward positive success for all. This presentation has a special focus on adolescent and brain development.

1. I Learned Who I Was When…
Identity Development with the Brain in Mind
Friends Academy Parents
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
Seattle Girls’ School
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2. About Seattle Girls’ School
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3. Agenda
 Identity Development
 Exercise: Up-Downs
 Adolescent Brain Development
 Identity and Adolescence
 So What, Now What?
 Resources
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4. Introductions
Warm-Up Questions
Please think about your adolescent years. What do
you remember? What were you like? What were the
most critical factors in making that time for you
wonderful, terrible, forgettable, etc.? What tools would
you like to get out of our session today?
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5. Identity Development
 What is it?
 What are the
various dimensions
of identity?
 Why identity
development?
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6. Dimensions of Identity and Culture
This model of identifiers and culture was created by Karen Bradberry and Johnnie Foreman for NAIS Summer Diversity
Institute, adapted from Loden and Rosener’s Workforce America! (1991) and from Diverse Teams at Work, Gardenswartz & Rowe
(SHRM 2003).
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7. Exercise: Up-Downs
• Stand proudly for your group
• Stand for as many groups
within one category
as applies to you
• If you are not standing,
cheer and applaud
the people who are
National Coalition Building Institute, Seattle Chapter, “Building Bridges Workshop,” Adapted by Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
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8. Debrief: Up-Downs
How did it feel to stand and
claim your identities and
experiences? To be applauded
for them? To applaud others
for their identities and their
experiences? How do your
children understand and/or
affirm their own identity as well
as their peers’?
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9. Identity Development:
Marginalized Identities
 Innocence and Self Esteem
 Encounter and Self Doubt
 Immersion into Identity
 Emersion
 Integration
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10. Identity Development:
Privilged Identities
 Innocence and Self Esteem
 Encounter and Confusion
 Attempt to Reintegrate
 Re-Encounter and
Acceptance
 Immersion and Emersion
 Integration
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11. Identity and Cultural Inclusion
 Identity Frames
 Intractability
 Positive Encounters
 Identity Socialization
 Co-Authorship of Identity
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12. Adolescence
“Teenagers [are like] people
constantly on LSD. People on acid
are
intense, changeable, internal, often
cryptic and
uncommunicative, and, of
course, dealing with a different
reality.”
Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia
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13. Changes
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14. Developmental Characteristics
of Adolescence
• Identity Formation
• Tenuous Sense of Self
• Self-Regulation
• Imaginary Audience
• Development of Self-Esteem
• Adolescent Egocentricism
• Personal Fable
• Importance of Peer
Relationships
• Formation of Groups, Crowds
and Cliques
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15. The Teen Brain
• Brain keeps growing and
developing to age 25!
• Teen brain is a “late childhood
brain”
-Capacity for learning
-Developing connections
-Plasticity of Teen Brain
-Hyperactive Amygdala
-Prefrontal Cortex (frontal lobe)
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16. Teen Hypersensitivity
-Hostile Perception Bias
-Social/Emotional and
Physical Pain
-Decisions and the Amygdala
-Stereotype Threat
-Fixed vs Growth Mindset
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17. Assisting the Identity Search
When It’s With You
 Be accepting of identity plays
 Get to know their interests
 Encourage identity pride
 Aid healthy self esteem
 Verbalize your values
 Encourage growth mindset
 Teach emotional coping tools
 Ask questions
 Tell your story
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18. Assisting the Identity Search
When It’s With Others
 Encourage resources for identity
development (affinity or support
groups, etc.)
 Get to know their peers
 Listen to their music, shows,
online activities, and movies
 Practice healthy social interactions
 Teach them about the “real world”
– for real
 Give them access to different
kinds of people
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19. Taking it Home
 What did you learn today
that was new, helpful, or
thought provoking?
 What are some goals or
strategies you would like to
apply with your children?
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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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
• John Medina, Brain Rules, Brain Rules for Babies
• 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.
• Claude Steele, Whistling Vivaldi.
• Shankar Vandatham, The Hidden Brain.
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