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Equity, Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism Resources for the Early Learning and Care Community

March 2021

Although the early childhood field has been actively working toward building inclusive, equitable learning opportunities for the past several years, a new awareness of racism and systemic bias arose in the summer of 2020 during the pandemic. After witnessing the murder of George Floyd and the many more examples of inequity that we’ve seen recently, the early childhood field along with many other groups have recognized the urgent need for understanding of systemic bias and racism and the need for action. Organizations across disciplines in the early childhood field have developed educational webinars, publications and videos to address these needs and provide resources to promote understanding and support for early care and learning professionals, families and children in building a more equitable, inclusive world.

The MAP Team has been gathering the newest educational resources for early learning and care professionals. They include publications, webinars and videos in the section entitled, “Resources to Help You Learn About Equity and Anti-Racism” and videos, activities and books for families and care providers in the “Multi-media Resources for Families and Care Providers” area. In addition, we’ve listed links to many other resources on this topic posted earlier on the California MAP* to Inclusion and Belonging Project… *Making Access Possible website.

In this newsletter you’ll find links to:

  1. Resources to Help You Learn About Equity and Anti-Racism
    • Publications
    • Webinars
    • Videos
  2. Multi-Media Resources For Families and Care Providers
    • Sesame Street’s “The Power of We”
    • Four Children’s Books About Empathy That Shows that Everyone Matters!
    • Topics for Kids and Parents to Talk About Together: A Kids’ Book About Publishing Company
    • Inspiration for the Future! (Video and Book)
    • Bedtime Story Series Read by Black Men
    • Diversifying Your Book Collection
  3. Additional Resources From Other Areas on the MAP Website

1. Resources to Help You Learn About Equity and Anti-Racism

This group of resources includes publications, webinars and videos from well-respected sources that provide information on equity and racism in early childhood. To gain in depth information on the history and manifestation of racism as it applies to various roles in early education you can choose from a range of professional development webinars geared toward early childhood educators, administrators, program directors, special educators and early childhood mental health consultants.

Publications

This area includes a report from the Children’s Equity Project: Start with Equity from the Early Years to the Early Grades; a white paper and six accompanying briefs from the NCLD on Significant Disproportionality in Special Education; an infographic, How Racism Can Affect Child Development along with a report, Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body from the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University.

Webinars

Choose from "First 5 Alameda County’s two-part Addressing Elephants in the Room: Equity and Racism Panel Presentation" OR "Head Start’s Four Part Series on Advancing Racial and Ethnic Equity" OR "DEC’s Understanding Implicit Bias and Its Role in Early Learning Environments" OR "the National Center on Pyramid Model Innovations Creating Anti-Racist Early Childhood Spaces" OR "Equity in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Webinar Series from the Center of Excellence and the Children’s Equity Project".

Videos

Included are the 28 minute video, "How to Address Inequities in Early Childhood Education" featuring Walter Gilliam, and "Vital Conversations with Young Children About Race" from the National Center on Pyramid Model Innovations.

Find links to all of these resources here

2. Multi-media Resources For Families and Care Providers

The resources presented here are to be enjoyed by children, families and care providers. The intent of these resources is to provide starting points for families and care providers to have discussions about identity and diversity. These videos and books provide an opportunity for children to become acquainted with other children and adults who may be similar or different from them. Hopefully, they will learn about themselves and others. They offer a bit of inspiration for adults and starting points for discussion between kids with caring adults.

Sesame Street’s “The Power of We”

This area includes a video, discussion guide and activities for families to talk about racism together.

Four Children’s Books About Empathy That Shows that Everyone Matters!

Great recommendations from Think Inclusive.

Topics for Kids and Parents to Talk About Together: A Kids’ Book About Publishing Company

These topics introduce a wide range of important issues that kids and parents can talk about together; Free video readings of many of the books including A Kid’s Book About Belonging are available on Youtube. Read more about these resource here.

Inspiration for the Future!

See the video, Sam’s A, B, C’s of what you can be when you grow up and read about Camille Catlett’s suggestions for activities and reflections that you might use with this video to inspire thinking for young children. The book, I Am Every Good Thing, also provides inspiration for the future in an interview by NPR with the author Derrik Barnes. Read more about both here.

Bedtime Story Series Read by Black Men Featuring Books With Black Children

Read the article and watch the video about Night, Night, the live Wednesday night readings on Youtube of books about black children by black men. You can watch recordings and sign up to subscribe too! Find out more here!

Diversifying Your Book Collection!

This article from Mind/Shift offers a thoughtful look at how to choose books for diversity. Recommendations and discussions of over 50 books including picture books, books for middle grades and young adults are found here.

See the full MAP Newsltter for links to these Multi-media resources

3. Additional Resources on Equity, Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism

Find other resources related to Equity, Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism on the MAP Website

Direct questions or comments about this newsletter to map@wested.org.

WestEd Center for Child & Family StudiesThis activity is administered by WestEd, Center for Child and Family Studies and is sponsored by the California Department of Education, Early Care & Learning Division with funds from the Federal Child Development Fund for Quality Improvement Activities

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