ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an illustration of how educators enact the seven norms. It discusses how a culture of ecological validation enabled TSLC educators to center at-promise students. The chapter highlights the experiences of a TSLC faculty member and a staff member to demonstrate how the seven norms influenced how they engaged in their work. Seeing how the seven norms work together in practice makes it easier to understand how they are all needed to build and sustain ecological validation. To provide a deeper understanding of how the programs engaged ecological validation, the chapter focuses on two challenges and inequities that at-promise students face that TSLC addressed through ecological validation: academic challenges and opportunities, and major and career path navigation. Channels of communication are kept open between support contexts in order to promote collaboration. The connection, collaboration, and communication across students’ coordinated ecology is represented by the lines linking each of the context circles in the outer ring of the image.
