Anti-bias Community Resource Tool by Madison McBride

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 00:26:50 UTC

We Are the Builders! by Deepa Iyer, Illustrated by Romina Galotta. Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Published September 17, 2024.

This book talks about finding your place in the community you live in. This book expresses that it is ok to have different interests and to empowering of yourself and those around you.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 00:33:19 UTC

It's OK to be Different by Sharon Purtill and illustrated by Sujata Saha. Published by Dunhill Clare Publishing in September 2019.

This book presents individuality to children through rhymes and cheerful pictures. This story talks about how individuality should be celebrated and not shunned. It encourages children to accept and befriend those who are different from themselves. Showing children that they don't have to look alike or enjoy doing the same activities to be kind to one another.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 00:42:45 UTC

Speak Up by Miranda Paul, Illustrated by Ebony Glenn. Published by Clarion Books on July 7, 2020. This book addresses all the ways kids can speak up, not just for others, but for themselves and for what's right. Children are encouraged to "speak up" to stop hurtful rumors, to help someone feel less lonely, to tell an adult when they hear a "scary secret," and to join forces with others to work as a group to demand justice for others.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 00:48:25 UTC

Super Manny Stands Up! by Kelly DiPuccio, Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin. Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers on July 4, 2017. This book talks about how Manny stood up for those who are being bullied. Manny uses his invisible cape of courage to do what's right and protect others.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 00:57:05 UTC

Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. Published by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) on September 13, 2011. This book follows two children who are pen pals and live in different countries. The share how they do the same things, but in different ways. They both go to school, but their schools look different, they both take a bus to school, but the buses look different, and so on. This book brings to life how people and live similarly but it looks different based on cultures and locations.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 01:07:06 UTC

I'm Like You, You're Like Me: A Book About Understanding and Appreciating Each Other by Cindy Gainer, Illustrated by Miki Sakamoto. Published by Free Spirit Publishing on February 1, 2013. This book uses simple words and detailed illustrations to invite children to notice, accept, and affirm individual differences and similarities. At the end of the book, the children discover that not being exactly the same is a good reason to like each other.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 02:38:01 UTC

The first step for preventing bias is to build children's self-identity. Then to teach the children about other cultures and respect for other people's differences.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 02:42:18 UTC

In order to combat stereotypical bias, you have to be aware of stereotypes and your own biases.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 03:03:11 UTC

Educators who engage multilingual children in small group conversations centered on a joint activity, responding verbally and nonverbally to children’s contributions, and using the children’s home languages as a tool for understanding promote their engagement and learning in the classroom.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 03:26:30 UTC

This article provides information about making the classroom an accessible place for children with disabilities. Setting up the classroom for all children will show students and parents that children with disabilities are just as capable of participating in classroom activities as typically developing children.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 03:29:34 UTC

This article talks about welcoming children with disabilities into the classroom like you would a typically developing child. There are small changes that can be made to the environment and seeing the child as a child first and not just someone with disabilities will help the child and the family feel welcome in the classroom.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 20:21:11 UTC

Celebrating different cultures and inviting families to celebrate together will help families appreciate other cultures.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 20:43:21 UTC

Preventing gender bias starts with checking your own biases first, then teaching the children to be unbiased. Educators and Parents need to teach boys and girls to be kind, respectful, and confidence to help prevent gender bias.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 20:55:33 UTC

This City of Bellevue resource has compiled family, youth, and teen services from sports to community centers, to parks.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 20:56:33 UTC

Washington Family to Family works to achieve family-centered care for all children and youth with special health care needs and/or disabilities.

mcbride_madison99 — 2025-02-11 20:58:14 UTC

Fathers are sometimes overlooked as care takers for children, this resource supports and provides information for fathers and families of children with special needs.