Social Justice in Early Learning and Development: More Than Hope

04/01/2025

Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States

19/12/2024

Alliance Equity Discussion – “The Head Start Equity Academy” – 1/17/25
Join a group of peers and colleagues from the early childhood community to engage in sustained learning about anti-racism, equity, and inclusion. The Alliance hosts a monthly, salon-style Equity Discussion Group via Zoom. Our next session is coming up on Friday, January 17, 2025, at 1:00 pm.

The discussion will be led by Holly Moriglioni, the Children’s Services and Professional Development Manager at Champlain Valley Head Start. Our focus will be the Head Start Equity Academy, whose goal is to support Head Start Programs to incorporate an equity lens into all aspects of program planning and development and to establish a practice of continuous and systematic assessment.

21/06/2024

Regarding the advancement of equity in ECE, the following article focuses on people of African descent and speaks to how and why knowing their history can shed light on their current practices and help us design more responsive programs.

14/05/2024

Neighborhoods matter. Children who live in neighborhoods with quality schools, safe housing, access to healthy food, parks, clean air and economic opportunities air are more likely to grow into healthy, productive adults than children who do not have access to these resources. The Child Opportunity....

23/04/2024

Racial inequities have long been present in our educational system. Recently, there has been a growing emphasis on the role of implicit bias in how programs discipline children, implement classroom practices, and establish teacher-child relationships. This session aims to support early childhood pro...

21/03/2024

Request for Proposals   The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is very pleased to announce the opening of our 2024 Vermont Equity & Justice Grant program with an allocation of $300,000. Beginning ... Read More

20/02/2024

Understanding Racism's Impact on Child Development: Working Towards Fairness of Place in the U.S.

Join the Center on the Developing Child and a panel of experts for a discussion on the impact of racism on child development and lifelong health. Stephanie C...

13/02/2024

Join a group of peers and colleagues from the early childhood community to engage in sustained learning about anti-racism, equity, and inclusion. This month we will hear from folks who oversee DEI work in a Vermont non-profit organization. The discussion will be led by Denise Bailey, Director of Equ...

05/02/2024

All children have the right to equitable learning opportunities that help them achieve their full potential as engaged learners and valued members of society. Thus, all early childhood educators have a professional obligation to advance equity. They can do this best when they are effectively supported by the early learning settings in which they work and when they and their wider communities embrace diversity and full inclusion as strengths, uphold fundamental principles of fairness and justice, and work to eliminate structural inequities that limit equitable learning opportunities.

This position statement is one of five foundational documents NAEYC has developed in collaboration with the early childhood profession. With its specific focus on advancing equity in early childhood education.

29/12/2023

Center on the Developing Child and a panel of experts discussion on the impact of racism on child development and lifelong health. Stephanie Curenton, PhD, Nathaniel Hartnett, PhD, Mavis Sanders, PhD, and Natalie Slopen, ScD, discussed their latest research, exploring how racism gets “under the skin” to impact children’s development and how it contributes to unequal access to opportunity in the places where children live, grow, play, and learn. Together, they explore ways to dismantle systemic barriers and work toward solutions that promote healthy child development.

Join the Center on the Developing Child and a panel of experts for a discussion on the impact of racism on child development and lifelong health. Stephanie C...

30/10/2023

The only handbook of its kind that takes a rigorous, in‐depth look at the historical roots of racial bias, this book goes beyond “band‐aid” approaches to equity and prioritizes real transformation and healing: of adults, communities, programs, systems, and children.

The only handbook of its kind that takes a rigorous, in‐depth look at the historical roots of racial bias, this book goes beyond band‐aid approaches to equity and prioritizes real transformation and healing: of adults, communities, programs, systems, and children. Transform your practices and wo...

16/10/2023

Racial equity in early childhood education encompasses the following:

1. eliminating racial inequities related to access to high-quality early childhood programs
2. eliminating racial inequities within those programs, including the nationwide push out of students of color to the Cradle to Prison Pipeline
3. ensuring all children are engaged with pedagogies that affirm and promote their sense of self-worth from a racial and ethnic standpoint
4. challenging the Eurocentric nature of the curriculum by recognizing the history of colonizations that have silenced the heritage of particular groups of people
5. recognizing that young children are able to both recognize and speak out against racial discrimination absorbed in their social and cultural environments, as well as dismantle the construction of racism if they are explicitly taught how to do so by educators who intentionally take on issues of race and racism.