You are committed to cultivating staff’s knowledge and skills related to fostering healthy development of the young children in their care and the families with whom they have formed partnerships. You are also deeply invested in developing staff leadership capacities.
Your board concurs and also believes that Scribbles has a robust commitment to working for access, equity, and positive social change. They have asked you to work with the staff in developing this broader advocacy lens. You welcome the challenge and believe that an important precursor to supporting these goals includes exploring biases, because deep knowledge of one’s own values and beliefs is a precursor to actively and effectively working on access and equity as social justice issues. As a first step to this important work, you decide to create a blog for staff with initial posts that provide a research-based introduction to the power of bias, including how to recognize and mitigate it as well as information and strategies that support access, equity, and positive social change for young children, families, and the early childhood field.
Sample Solution
To create this blog, you will first need to conduct research and gather information about bias, access, equity and social change. You also need to develop a plan for how the staff can use the blog platform to engage in learning and dialogue around these important topics. Finally, you will write posts that introduce bias in early childhood education (ECE) settings as well as provide strategies for recognizing and mitigating bias while actively pursuing access, equity, and social justice on behalf of young children, their families and ECE professionals.
Sample Solution
To create this blog, you will first need to conduct research and gather information about bias, access, equity and social change. You also need to develop a plan for how the staff can use the blog platform to engage in learning and dialogue around these important topics. Finally, you will write posts that introduce bias in early childhood education (ECE) settings as well as provide strategies for recognizing and mitigating bias while actively pursuing access, equity, and social justice on behalf of young children, their families and ECE professionals.
