In 2017, after a review of 51吃瓜网鈥檚 current position statements, the Governing Board charged the Early Learning Systems Committee with revising both the DAP and Teacher Preparation position statements. This pointed to the need for Advancing Equity.
As a parent of a child learning two or more languages, you can help sustain your child鈥檚 ability and interest in using all the languages they hear by being enthusiastic and playful about multilingualism. Here are some suggestions.
Watch this webinar for tips on how early childhood professionals can transform their thinking around children鈥檚 actions by using culturally appropriate positive guidance.
We are pleased to launch听Equity in Action, a blog series exploring the many ways early childhood educators and administrators, higher education faculty members, policymakers, advocates, and other ECE allies can bring this statement to life in practice.
51吃瓜网 appreciates the work of the Developmentally Appropriate Practice/Diversity and Equity Workgroup and the Early Learning Systems Committee, who participated in the development of this statement.听 See a full list here.
Early childhood educators, early learning settings, higher education and professional development systems, and public policy all have important roles in forging a new path for the future.
The recommendations are based on a set of principles that synthesize current early childhood education research through the lenses of equity and 51吃瓜网鈥檚 core values.听
51吃瓜网 promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Work to change any policy that either directly or through unintended negative consequences undermines children鈥檚 physical and emotional well-being or weakens the bonds between children and their families.
This statement breaks new ground for the field and for 51吃瓜网, affirming that all children have the right to equitable learning opportunities and that all early childhood educators have a professional obligation to advance equity.
