Full Description
This popular book focuses on the leader's role in initiating and sustaining anti-bias education in programs for young children and their families. This second edition emphasizes how the journey requires thoughtful, strategic, long-term planning that addresses all components of an early childhood care and education program. The authors, who are recognized leaders and experts on anti-bias education with extensive experience as early childhood directors, use a powerful combination of frameworks and practical tools to explain the structural and individual changes that leaders must foster. This updated edition features anti-bias leaders from diverse settings who share their insights and strategies for working with teachers and families.
Book Features:
The principles and guidelines for program-wide transformation.
Professional development activities for teachers at all levels of experience.
Approaches for engaging with families around social justice values.
Strategies for strengthening the leader's ability to initiate and sustain anti-bias change.
Tools for documenting a program's progress in anti-bias education.
New for the Second Edition:
Voices of additional leaders from the field, highlighting BIPOC center directors from diverse settings.
Updated research, references, and terminology.
Strategies and activities for teacher professional development and family engagement based on 7 years of using the first edition.
Expanded section on responding to opposition to anti-bias education, addressing the current political environment.
Contents
Foreword by Iheoma U. IrukaAcknowledgments
Introduction
Organization of This Book
Meet the Authors and Contributors
1. Pursuing the Anti-Bias Vision: The Conceptual Framework
Revisiting Anti-Bias Education
Becoming an Anti-Bias Program
Changing Adult Consciousness and Behavior
Understanding the Phases of Adult Anti-Bias Development
Recognizing Contested Grounds for Anti-Bias Education
Anti-Bias Education—Within Reach
2. Best Practices of Early Childhood Program Leaders: The Foundation for Anti-Bias Leadership
Key Aspects of ECCE Program Leadership
Core Attributes of Effective ECCE Program Leaders
Professional Development of ECCE Program Leaders
Taking on the Challenge
3. Reading the Program and Preparing for Anti-Bias Change
Collecting Preliminary Impressions: Establishing a Baseline for Planning
Making Sense of the Baseline for Strategic Planning
Setting the Stage for Action
A Dynamic and Cyclical Process
4. Fostering Reflective Anti-Bias Educators
Building a Community of Anti-Bias Learners
Committing to an Anti-bias Education Framework Being a Life-Long Learner
5. Engaging Families and Growing Anti-Bias Partnerships
The Framework for Working with Families
Introducing Anti-Bias Values and Expectations
Family Anti-Bias Education and Dialogues
Promoting Family Partnership and Leadership
Making All Families Visible
6. Deepening and Sustaining Anti-Bias Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills
Enhancing the Professional Development of Anti-Bias Teachers
Facilitating Teachers' Work with Families
Staff Development Throughout the Year
7. Managing and Negotiating Disequilibrium and Conflict
Understanding Conflict
Building the Foundation for Productive Conflict
Turning Conflict into Growth
Responding to Pushback and Opposition
Thoughtful Risk Taking
8. Documenting and Assessing Anti-Bias Education Change
Indicators and Strategies for Documenting Anti-Bias Change
Strategically Managing External Standards Requirements and Assessment Tools.
Documentation and Empowerment
Epilogue. Sustaining the Anti-Bias Vision
Motivation Comes from Our Inner Core
"Man Man Lai": Slowly It Will Come
Fostering a Community for Change
Staying Over the Long Haul
Carry on the Movement for Change
References
Index
About the Authors
