For educators

Building the Rainbow Bridge

When the path is narrow, we widen it with love.

Written and illustrated by Vivian Tarazona

Cover of Building the Rainbow Bridge โ€” children walking a rainbow path with their teacher

Building the Rainbow Bridge is a storybook for grown-ups who teach with heart.

Through a simple rainbow path, it gathers the key learnings from a journey in inclusive education and turns them into a warm, practical invitation to notice strengths, build supports, and let every learner grow in their own colour and pace.

Along the way you will find an empathic teaching survival kit, a three-legged stool for the classroom year, the story that waits below the waterline, seed packets of care, jagged skyline profiles, and a letter to every bridge builder.

This book is a reminder that belonging is not something we wait for. It is something we build together, one kind step at a time.

We are not building a bridge for them.
We are building a bridge with them.

Perfect For

Classroom Teachers

Who want practical ways to notice strengths and widen the path for every learner in the room.

Teaching Teams

Building a shared language for supports, differentiation, and the small daily acts that make belonging real.

Anyone Feeling Stretched

The survival kit, the permission to bend, and the reminder that no one builds the bridge alone.

There is always room for another colour.

Seeds of change do not ask for permission.

About the Author

Vivian Tarazona is a Grade 2 teacher and inclusive education advocate with teaching experience across Colombia, Spain, and Canada. Currently teaching in an IB Primary Years Programme school in British Columbia, she specializes in social-emotional learning and working with neurodivergent learners.

Building the Rainbow Bridge grew from that work โ€” and from every educator who keeps showing up for the child who is hardest to reach.

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