Each and Every Child: Teaching Preschool with an Equity Lens

About the Book
Table of Contents
- Introduction
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Part 1: Nurturing Your Own Empathy and Understanding Behavior
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Chapter 1: Examining Teacher Bias听|听Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards, with Catherine M. Goins
- Chapter 2: Developing Empathy to Build Warm, Inclusive Classrooms听|听Charis L. Wahman and Elizabeth A. Steed, with Susan Friedman
- Chapter 3: Valuing Diversity: Developing a Deeper Understanding of All Young Children鈥檚 Behavior听|听Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky
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Part 2: Creating an Equitable Classroom
- Chapter 4: Connecting Culture and Play: Practical Strategies for Educators |听Kamini Kamdar
- Chapter 5: The Balancing Act of Guided Play听|听Brenna Hassinger-Das, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
- Chapter 6: Welcoming Refugee Children into Early Childhood Classrooms听|听Sadia Warsi
- Chapter 7: Creating a Culturally Responsive STEAM Curriculum |听Anthony Broughton and Michiko B. McClary
- Chapter 8: Including All Children in Making and Tinkering!听|听Karen N. Nemeth and Pamela Brillante
- Chapter 9: Growing Little Storytellers听|听Ronald F. Ferguson and Tatsha Robertson
- Chapter 10: Books that Support Diversity, Conversations, and Play听|听Shannon B. Wanless and Patricia A. Crawford, with Susan Friedman
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Part 3: Developing a Strengths-Based Approach When Teaching Black Boys
- Chapter 11: Six Things You Can Do to Prevent Preschool Expulsion听|听Alissa Mwenelupembe
- Chapter 12: Black Boys Matter: Cultivating Their Identity, Agency, and Voice听|听Brian L. Wright
- Chapter 13: Black Boys Matter: Strategies for a Culturally Responsive Classroom听|听Brian L. Wright
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Part 4: Supporting Emergent Bilingual Children
- Chapter 14: Supporting Emergent Bilingual Children: A Checklist for Early Childhood Educators听|听Shelley Pasnik and Naomi Hupert
- Chapter 15: Many Languages, One Classroom: Supporting Children in Superdiverse Settings听|听Carola Oliva-Olson, Linda M. Espinosa, Whit Hayslip, and Elizabeth S. Magruder
- Chapter 16: More Strategies for Supporting Children in Superdiverse Settings听|听Carola Oliva-Olson, Linda M. Espinosa, Whit Hayslip, and Elizabeth S. Magruder
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Part 5: Engaging Diverse Families
- Chapter 17: Knock, Knock . . . Who's There? The Benefits of Home Visits in the Early Years听|听Jennifer K. Lampe
- Chapter 18: Conversations with Children! Asking Questions to Support Their Understanding of Family Diversity听|听Janis Strasser
- Chapter 19: When I Have a Mommy and a Mama: Including Children with All Types of Family Structures in the Classroom听|听Julia Luckenbill
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Chapter 20: Advancing Equity: Playful Ways to Extend Math Learning at Home听|听Jessica Mercer Young and Kristen E. Reed
- Fun, Easy Ways to Play with Math at Home: A Resource for Families听|听Jessica Mercer Young and Kristen E. Reed
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Part 6: Exploring Identity, Fairness, and Activism
- Chapter 21: 鈥淲hat If I Say the Wrong Thing?鈥 Talking About Identity with Young Children听|听Nadia Jaboneta, with Deb Curtis
- Chapter 22: Pink Power and Bathroom Signs: Exploring Gender and Fairness听|听Jamie Solomon
- Chapter 23: 鈥淲hat About People Like Me?鈥 Teaching Preschoolers About Segregation and 鈥淧eace Heroes鈥澨齶听Nadia Jaboneta
- Chapter 24: From Teacher to Equity Activist听|听Megan Pamela Ruth Madison
- References
- About the Editors
Book Details
ISBN:听978-1-938113-61-1
Publish Date: 2020听
Related Resources
Position Statement
Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education听- All children have the right to equitable learning opportunities that help them achieve their full potential as engaged learners and valued members of society. Read the 强奸视频's position statement on advancing equity. 听
Webinar
听- Watch this听recorded webinar听in which听Tyrone Howard and Maurice Sykes discuss practical, classroom-based strategies for teacher and child agency in the service of social and racial justice.
Looking for more resources on EQUITY? Visit our topic page to browse听our collection of articles on the topic.
Enrich Your Curriculum: Purchase the Module!
Promoting equity in your classroom is within your reach, and this听听will give you some of the tools you need. It focuses on what equity work can look like for teachers working with children ages 3 through 5 on a day-to-day basis in the classroom. You will find strategies and tips for how you can support the learning and development of each and every child in your classroom through intentional play opportunities and guided instructional supports. This module explores the six parts of the听book to supplement your teaching and start or continue your journey towards a more听equitable preschool classroom.
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Susan Friedman is senior director of听publishing听and content development at 强奸视频.听In this role, she leads the content development work of 强奸视频鈥檚 books and periodicals teams. Ms. Friedman is coeditor of Each and Every Child: Teaching Preschool with an Equity Lens. She has extensive prior experience creating content on play, developmentally appropriate uses of media, and other topics for educators and families. She has presented at numerous educational conferences, including 强奸视频鈥檚 Professional Learning Institute and Annual Conference, the South by Southwest Education (SXSW EDU) Conference & Festival, and the School Superintendents Association鈥檚 Early Learning Cohort. She began her career as a preschool teacher at City and Country School in New York City.听She holds degrees from Vassar College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Alissa Mwenelupembe听is the managing director, early learning at 强奸视频 and works out of the DC headquarters.
Reviews
A child鈥檚 starting point matters鈥攕uch an insightful and compelling message begins the journey of unpacking implicit biases in the field of early childhood. If you have been looking for a guide that operationalizes equity and shifts it into the reality of practice, this is the book for you. This is a game changer for the field of early learning.
鈥Marquita F. Davis, Deputy Director of Early Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation听
As a society, we can and must do better to ensure all children have access to high-quality education. This resource听provides concrete strategies, prompts readers with reflection questions, and sheds light on how personal biases and structural inequities impact our youngest learners.听Each and Every Child will be tremendously helpful for early childhood educators, advocates, and policymakers working to achieve equity in our early childhood systems.听
鈥Kassi Longoria,听Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant, MAYA Consulting
Today鈥檚 early childhood classrooms demand attention to equity, and this book allows everyone from teachers to administrators the ability to understand why equity matters and how to embed it within the daily activities, interactions, and fabric of a program.
鈥Edward Manuszak, Superintendent, Dundee Community Schools
This is an essential, researched, and practical guide for empowering young children while advancing equity in the classroom. The diverse group of authors use strengths-based approaches that support identity development, engage听families, and cultivate a stance for听fairness and activism. Full of useful tools and strategies!
听鈥Debbie LeeKeenan,听Coauthor of听From Survive to Thrive and听Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs
Each and Every Child is practical, thought provoking, and a call to action. A must-read for early childhood educators committed to social justice and equity in early childhood education.
鈥Lorena Mancilla, Director, WIDA Early Years at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research
This book brings the 强奸视频 advancing equity position statement to life. Filled with stories, practical tips, and self-reflections, it is an excellent resource for all who work in the early childhood field.
鈥Titus DosRemedios, Director of Research and Policy, Strategies for Children
As early childhood educators, we have an obligation to embrace diversity and advance equity efforts in our profession. This book identifies the structural inequities that can interfere with a child鈥檚 learning and offers an engaging, strengths-based approach to addressing them.
鈥William Mosier, Director of Research, Lynda A. Cohen Center for the Study of Child Development, and Professor of Child Development, Istanbul University
This edited book by Friedman and Mwenelupembe is filled with vivid real-life scenarios, and thus it is extremely applicable and beneficial to various stakeholders who are wondering how equity-based pedagogy can be enacted with preschool age children. In response to a possible rebuttal that preschoolers are too young to be exposed to issues of equity, race, etc., Friedman and Mwenelupembe make a strong case based on recent research findings that the negative impact of implicit bias begins in early years and that young children are extremely capable of making sense of these sensitive issues.听
鈥擡xcerpt from by Sophia Han