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Sending home all information in home languages of families

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Greeting a child and their caregiver in the morning using their home language.

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Hiring staff that reflect the cultures and languages of the families in your program

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Hiring staff that reflect the cultures and languages of the families in your program

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Including cultures from families within the classroom

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Be open to learning more than you think you know

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including a child's home language in greeting songs and other activities 

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including a child's home language in greeting songs and other activities 

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Having visual representation and celebration of different children and families.

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Having visual representation and celebration of different children and families.

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Being culturally responsive can be as simple as opening conversation about individual cultures. What do we eat at home? What do we do when it’s time for bed? What do we do together with our big people?

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Recognizing and incorporating the assets and strengths all people bring.

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Recognizing and incorporating the assets and strengths all people bring.

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advocating for the different needs of students and their families

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Recognizing and appreciating all differences and similarities within different cultures

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Cooking food from a child’s culture

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Including spices or traditional food items from children’s cultures in meals together

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Adding to classroom activities to b responsive to various culture

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Adding to classroom activities to b responsive to various culture

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Being open and inviting to learn new cultural practices

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Being open and inviting to learn new cultural practices

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Being responsive means to be open and available to learn and embrace someone else’s culture.

Being affirming means to be able to say, “I see you, I hear you and I understand “

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Staff learning what is important to the family and using that knowledge to build a respectful relationship

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Being aware of cultures, discussion with families and respecting them. Implementing families culture in classroom. Sharing music and foods for example.

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Being aware of cultures, discussion with families and respecting them. Implementing families culture in classroom. Sharing music and foods for example.

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Aligning program structures to the feedback of the families you are serving.

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Aligning program structures to the feedback of the families you are serving.

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Taking the time to ask about the person’s culture.
Offering a holiday and recognition of their holiday that may be different than yours

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Being open-minded and aware of your own biases

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Being open-minded and aware of your own biases

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Showing an interest in learning about others and how they see their world

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celebrating or inviting families to share their cultures through family engagements

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celebrating or inviting families to share their cultures through family engagements

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To be able to celebrate traditions of the family and learn about their customs to represent that child in the classroom setting.

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It is adults who develop warm, joyful, and respectful relationships with every child and every family. To better work with.

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validating a families purpose and journey

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To support various by intentionally teaching about culture

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To support various by intentionally teaching about culture

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Books and pictures and media in their language

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Using cultural knowledge to guide curriculum.

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Using cultural knowledge to guide curriculum.

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Honoring each family's unique perspective 

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Honoring each family's unique perspective 

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creating family partnerships to create that safe space to talk.

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Cultural affirming practices are more akin to finding GOOD and SHARED values, bolstering those values by way of celebrating the individual and the whole organism (classroom, family, community, etc)

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Create opportunities for children to share their cultural knowledge

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Create opportunities for children to share their cultural knowledge

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having our preschool classrooms represent the families in which they live

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Valuing and affirming what families have to offer.

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Thinking through and learning about the practices of that culture around childbirth for example and thinking about the best way to talk about it and validating it