Developing Equity In Early Childhood Education (12 Hours)

The Developing Equity in Early Childhood Education is a four-part training series that provides leaders, administrators, and practitioners an opportunity to examine and address issues that impact equitable early childhood education (ECE).

Developing Equity Modules

Module 1: Culture and Equity in Early Childhood Education (3/CD)

Orients participants to the foundational content that is necessary for deeper study of equity and its implications in ECE environments, including issues of human diversity that are broadly defined to include race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability. Participants will discuss identity and culture and reflect on their own cultural identity. They will also discuss equity and identity, as well as the difference between it and equality by reviewing and discussing real-life scenarios that involve issues of equity in ECE.

Module 2: Implicit Bias: Key Concepts (3/CD)

Explores the science of implicit bias and how implicit bias shows up in daily life, and provides opportunities to practice strategies that interrupt implicit bias. This session emphasizes the impact of microaggressions and stereotypes that influence teaching and learning while working with children and families. Participants will engage with content that leads them to a common understanding of implicit bias and reflect on their own bias and that of others. Research studies involving bias and strategies to address bias in the workplace will be shared.

Module 3: Poverty and Privilege (3/CD)

Examines how social inequity leads to educational inequality and how educational inequities reproduce social inequality in the broader society. Participants will review the links between social and educational disparities and recognize the structural forces of injustice and how those forces contribute to unequal opportunities, experiences, and achievement outcomes for children and families along the lines of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and immigration status. Specific topics include poverty and privilege.

Module 4: Building Systems of Equity (3/CD)

Synthesizes the key outcomes from sessions one, two, and three and provides the foundational steps that need to be taken to build equity driven systems. Participants will end the series with a concrete equity goal and an action plan for success!