REY: Freedom Dreaming by

Liberatory science!!

2023-10-31 20:12:07 UTC

Reparations

2023-10-31 20:12:20 UTC

Home language sustaining interactions

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Black and brown children are celebrated for their humanity in everyday interactions with their teachers and caregivers.

2023-10-31 20:14:12 UTC

Policy makers fund early care and education at systemic levels instead of putting burden of this expense on families.

Teachers who are compassionate + bring out children's strengths

2023-10-31 20:14:16 UTC

Comprehensive assessment and integration of the cultural wealth/assets and humanity of minoritized and marginalized children and communities

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:14:21 UTC

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Move money from research into action - well paid ECE staff, universal basic income, health care, environmental justice...

2023-10-31 20:14:49 UTC

Early childhood teacher compensation that are family thriving wages and benefits!

Whiteness culture and white supremacy are no longer centered in our systems

2023-10-31 20:15:13 UTC

Ensuring equity in the research enterprise from funding, who does the research, and who publishes it

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:15:22 UTC

Classrooms that are joyful for kids of color

2023-10-31 20:15:32 UTC

Scholars of color would be just seen as scholars...PERIOD!

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:15:46 UTC

Schools where children feel safe

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Policymakers who believe in anti-racist research and policymaking

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:16:26 UTC

Anti-bias education beginning in early childhood learning environments.

2023-10-31 20:16:57 UTC

Early childhood educations leaders must recognize and promote all early childhood educators to employ an anti-bias/anti-racist approach to foster strong cognitive and social-emotional development.

Policies that attend to the protection, promotion, and preservation of children's health and wealth, as well as their heritage, culture, language, community, and healthy identities

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:17:20 UTC

African- and Indigenous-centered educational and health practices

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:17:58 UTC

Practice

2023-10-31 20:18:04 UTC

ALL Children have equal access to opportunities to learn and explore the world in different ways, while racism is a thing of the past!!!

Decriminalize the existence of historically (and currently) minoritized individuals and communities

2023-10-31 20:18:11 UTC

ECE Teacher are paid well

2023-10-31 20:18:13 UTC

Address gerrymandering, including prison-based gerrymandering

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:18:26 UTC

Humanizing PD for ECE teachers, supporting adult well being, and creating courageous spaces to reflect and challenge bias

2023-10-31 20:19:26 UTC

Address how racism, sexism, classism, ableism, xenophobia, and their intersectionality are leading to economic, social, environmental, and health crisis -- can fix what you don't see

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:19:51 UTC

address mis/disinformation as it related to science to practice and policy actions and solutions

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:20:09 UTC

use social media to form community and advocacy networks

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:20:23 UTC

Recognizing the need for a critical mass in the research enterprise to see progress

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:21:12 UTC

It will be normal for Black children to see teachers, doctors, police, politicians etc that look like them!

2023-10-31 20:21:13 UTC

That we take better care of ourselves in the struggle - knowing the trauma is real and the struggle is long.

2023-10-31 20:21:31 UTC

Communities of color will have more ownership of the research and data that is collected about them

2023-10-31 20:22:37 UTC

Schools were children ARE safe.

2023-10-31 20:22:49 UTC

More Black researchers!!!

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Black children are celebrated and welcomed, nourished and cherished, and that is the default.

Research must address the historical and sociocultural context and the compounding nature of inequities -- for both research content and researchers/academics!

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:24:20 UTC

2023-10-31 20:24:53 UTC

We as a society, share in the raising, the parenting, and the support of Black children; parenting learning from your children as it is teaching them.

Need for new conceptual frameworks, tools, methodology, including analytical methods, etc.....critical conscious is a necessity!

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:27:13 UTC

Embracing a vision in ECE where the naturalness of discussing race and ethnicity is embraced and welcomed without the feeling or the need to reinforce this premise as an "outside" practice. The vision is modeled and carried as inspiration for acceptance.

2023-10-31 20:27:54 UTC

Ensure that studies involving children and communities of color must include researchers from those communities as PI!

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:28:57 UTC

2023-10-31 20:29:46 UTC

Researchers, policy and practices No longer disconnect the wellbeing of black children from the well being of their families and the communities. These factors are connected to well being

Leverage digital/tech age for people to tell their stories.

ceed — 2023-10-31 20:32:29 UTC

Need to ensure that issues of early childhood is integrated with other issues such as civil rights, health equity, criminal justice, etc.

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:32:50 UTC

Renumeration for community members who participate in focus groups, advisory boards, etc.

ceed — 2023-10-31 20:34:52 UTC

I want a world where ECE teachers of color are paid and compensated the same as white educators, so they can focus on teaching and not financial stressors.

2023-10-31 20:35:29 UTC

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Strong multiracial coalition policy agenda that is driven by anti racist perspective and approach

Need to ensure more policymakers that represent Black communities and other communities of color-- need for critical mass to avoid overburdening one person of color.

iruka — 2023-10-31 20:36:26 UTC

African centered practices are centered

ceed — 2023-10-31 20:37:45 UTC

Practice

2023-10-31 20:41:15 UTC

Communities and churches pool their resources to teach historical context that is being banned from curricula in some states.