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Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education

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Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education

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Position statement from National Association for the Education of Young Children on advancing equity in early childhood education.

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Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education Position Statement

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This position statement is one of five foundational documents NAEYC has developed in collaboration with the early childhood profession. With its specific focus on advancing equity in early childhood education.

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A 48-minute film focused on the four core goals of anti-bias education and what it looks like in early childhood environments. There is a facilitator guide for using the film in developing professional learning experiences for yourself or others.

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The film, Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years (48 minutes), produced by Debbie LeeKeenan and John Nimmo, features vignettes of anti-bias strategies in early childhood classrooms interspersed with teachers reflecting on their practice. Debbie and John partnered with filmmaker Filiz Efe McKinney of Brave Sprout Productions to create a film that shifts the focus away from the talking heads of experts and on to the voices of teachers committed to equity on a daily basis. By taking viewers into diverse early childhood classrooms, the film seeks to demonstrate the importance of teacher reflection on identity, context, and practice in anti-bias education and provides a much-needed resource for teacher education and professional development.

The film has received numerous awards including the Silver Prize for Documentary Feature (2021) in the Social Justice Film Festival and a nomination for Northwest Regional Emmy® (2022) in the category of diversity, equity, and inclusion - long form content.

The film can be streamed at the screen image above at no charge for professional development and educational purposes. Please review information about the use of the film. The film has closed captions in English, Spanish, and Chinese (simplified characters) which can be turned on by clicking on the CC button to the bottom right of the screen. A Guidebook (available in Spanish and English) provides additional background and resources, and poses provocations and questions for reflection about each vignette in the film. The Official Trailer (3 minutes) is available for promotional purposes.

There is no "one way" to implement anti-bias education. The four anti-bias goals help guide the work. This approach involves critical thinking and a deep understanding of the complexity of the issues and the context of your community. The film is a provocation to generate dialogue about how to bring this approach into your practice.

Louise Derman-Sparks is the film's senior advisor. The film's theoretical and research framework is based on her co-authored books, Anti-Bias Education for Our Children and Ourselves (with Julie Olsen-Edwards and Catherin Goins ) and Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs: A Guide for Change (with Debbie LeeKeenan and John Nimmo).

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Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years

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The Film: Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years

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Sesame Street Coming Together: Talking about Race and Identity

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Sesame Street Coming Together: Talking about Race and Identity

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Videos, songs, books, and lessons that focus on race and identity and feature children's favorite Sesame Street characters.

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Coming Together is a Sesame-wide initiative that helps children grow up with a healthy self-identity and sense of belonging. We're working to create a world where all children can reach their full potential-and do so in celebration of our diverse world. Our research-based, child-centered resources include the whole family, inviting parents and caregivers, educators, and providers to help children celebrate their own race, ethnicity, and culture and become upstanders for themselves and one another.

Children are not born colorblind. We know that babies notice physical differences, from skin color to eye shape and hair texture. This unique set of resources provides you with language and parenting strategies to talk with your child about race and racism, as well as tools to cope with racism together as a family.

Celebrity friends join Tamir, Grover, Cookie Monster and more to learn about words like "Belonging," "Fairness," and "Diversity".

From songs to short documentaries, check out these new videos designed for families to experience together.

Join Tamir, Gabrielle, Elmo, and other Sesame Street friends as they celebrate their different identities and learn to become "upstanders" for racial justice.

Sesame Street friends, CNN hosts, and experts from around the country come together for a Town Hall designed to help kids and families discuss racism, build empathy, and embrace diversity.

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Coming Together: Celebrating Every Child's Race, Ethnicity, and Culture!

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Coming Together is a Sesame-wide initiative that helps children grow up with a healthy self-identity and sense of belonging. We're working to create a world where all children can reach their full potential-and do so in celebration of our diverse world.

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The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education (Esquivel, Elam, Paris, & Tafoya)

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The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education (Esquivel, Elam, Paris, & Tafoya)

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Free e-book that covers a wide range of learning as it relates to anti-bias, anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion in early childhood education.

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Guided by cultural beliefs and principles, families select experiences, convey attitudes, and impart knowledge to their children to prepare them for adulthood. Accordingly, it is important for program staff to learn to collaborate effectively with families. To develop a partnership and to tap into the family as a primary resource, early childhood educators must reach out to, learn about, and develop strong partnerships with families. This process requires openness to learning and an effort to understand the individuality of each family and the diversity of the families from which the children come.
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Book: The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education (Esquivel, Elam, Paris, & Tafoya)

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Guided by cultural beliefs and principles, families select experiences, convey attitudes, and impart knowledge to their children to prepare them for adulthood. Accordingly, it is important for program staff to learn to collaborate effectively with families.

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Developed by Teaching for Change, this site identifies and promotes the best multicultural and social justice children’s books, as well as articles and books for educators.

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More than 100 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. When you find a book at this site, please purchase it here. Our titles are linked to Bookshop. A portion of your book purchase helps sustain our work. New Releases Activism and Organizing Africa Afro-Latinx American Indians Arabs […]

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Articles, lesson plans, videos, and professional development resources focused on all aspects of anti-bias education. Primarily focused on K-12 with some resources for PK. Adult learning resources are plentiful!

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August 23 is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. With blatant, nationwide attempts to keep truth-telling out of schools, it's especially critical to teach the whole truth about American slavery. Use our Teaching Hard History framework, its accompanying online archives and databases, and this film to help you and your students dig deeper into lessons about the slave trade and its lasting effects, as well as an often-forgotten part of our nation's history: Indigenous enslavement.

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Learning for Justice | Education Resources

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Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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A Reason for Hope_ Building Teachers’ Cultural Capital _ NAEYC

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Webinars, articles, action guides, and more - all focused on talking to children about race. Use the early childhood topic filter to refine your search.

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EmbraceRace supports parents to raise children who are brave, informed and thoughtful about race. Join the movement!

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A curriculum and library to teach peacemaking and anti-bias with young children between one and six years of age.