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Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs Louise Derman-Sparks

Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs By Louise Derman-Sparks

Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs by Louise Derman-Sparks


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Focuses on the leader's role in initiating and sustaining anti-bias education in programs for young children and their families. This second edition emphasizes how the journey requires thoughtful, strategic, long-term planning that addresses all components of an early childhood care and education program.

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Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs: A Guide to Change, for Change by Louise Derman-Sparks

This popular book focuses on the leader's role in initiating and sustaining anti-bias education in programs for young children and their families. This second edition emphasizes how the journey requires thoughtful, strategic, long-term planning that addresses all components of an early childhood care and education program. The authors, who are recognized leaders and experts on anti-bias education with extensive experience as early childhood directors, use a powerful combination of frameworks and practical tools to explain the structural and individual changes that leaders must foster. This updated edition features anti-bias leaders from diverse settings who share their insights and strategies for working with teachers and families.

Book Features:
  • The principles and guidelines for program-wide transformation.
  • Professional development activities for teachers at all levels of experience.
  • Approaches for engaging with families around social justice values.
  • Strategies for strengthening the leader's ability to initiate and sustain anti-bias change.
  • Tools for documenting a program's progress in anti-bias education.
New for the Second Edition:
  • Voices of additional leaders from the field, highlighting BIPOC center directors from diverse settings.
  • Updated research, references, and terminology.
  • Strategies and activities for teacher professional development and family engagement based on 7 years of using the first edition.
  • Expanded section on responding to opposition to anti-bias education, addressing the current political environment.

Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs Reviews

Praise for the First Edition!

This book is a tool box for building early childhood programs that foster sentiments of justice and fairness in leaders, teachers, and young children. -Herbert Kohl, educator and bestselling author

A concise and powerful message for anti-bias leaders in early childhood education everywhere. A truly inspired gift of lessons from the movement, for the movement. -Carol Brunson Day, board president, NAEYC (2014-2016)

For those who are seeking to make a real difference and impact on the world we live in, this book lays a road map and foundation for the work ahead. -Luis A. Hernandez, early childhood education specialist

Recognizes the essential role early childhood administrators play in initiating and sustaining culturally relevant care and education. This book provides the tools program leaders need. -Paula Jorde Bloom, founder, McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership

If you are an educator wanting to see more equity and inclusiveness in the world, you'll find reassurance, resources, and strategic thinking to engage with in this anti-bias work. -Margie Carter, author and international early childhood consultant

About Louise Derman-Sparks

Louise Derman-Sparks is an international consultant on anti-bias education and a professor emerita of Pacific Oaks College. Debbie LeeKeenan is a lecturer, consultant, and retired long-time director of the Eliot-Pearson Children's School, Tufts University. John Nimmo is a professor of early childhood inclusive education at Portland State University and former laboratory school director.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Iheoma U. Iruka

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Organization of This Book
Meet the Authors and Contributors

1. Pursuing the Anti-Bias Vision: The Conceptual Framework
Revisiting Anti-Bias Education
Becoming an Anti-Bias Program
Changing Adult Consciousness and Behavior
Understanding the Phases of Adult Anti-Bias Development
Recognizing Contested Grounds for Anti-Bias Education
Anti-Bias Education-Within Reach

2. Best Practices of Early Childhood Program Leaders: The Foundation for Anti-Bias Leadership
Key Aspects of ECCE Program Leadership
Core Attributes of Effective ECCE Program Leaders
Professional Development of ECCE Program Leaders
Taking on the Challenge

3. Reading the Program and Preparing for Anti-Bias Change
Collecting Preliminary Impressions: Establishing a Baseline for Planning
Making Sense of the Baseline for Strategic Planning
Setting the Stage for Action
A Dynamic and Cyclical Process

4. Fostering Reflective Anti-Bias Educators
Building a Community of Anti-Bias Learners
Committing to an Anti-bias Education Framework Being a Life-Long Learner

5. Engaging Families and Growing Anti-Bias Partnerships
The Framework for Working with Families
Introducing Anti-Bias Values and Expectations
Family Anti-Bias Education and Dialogues
Promoting Family Partnership and Leadership
Making All Families Visible

6. Deepening and Sustaining Anti-Bias Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills
Enhancing the Professional Development of Anti-Bias Teachers
Facilitating Teachers' Work with Families
Staff Development Throughout the Year

7. Managing and Negotiating Disequilibrium and Conflict
Understanding Conflict
Building the Foundation for Productive Conflict
Turning Conflict into Growth
Responding to Pushback and Opposition
Thoughtful Risk Taking

8. Documenting and Assessing Anti-Bias Education Change
Indicators and Strategies for Documenting Anti-Bias Change
Strategically Managing External Standards Requirements and Assessment Tools.
Documentation and Empowerment

Epilogue. Sustaining the Anti-Bias Vision
Motivation Comes from Our Inner Core
Man Man Lai: Slowly It Will Come
Fostering a Community for Change
Staying Over the Long Haul
Carry on the Movement for Change

References

Index

About the Authors

Additional information

CIN0807768529G
9780807768525
0807768529
Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs: A Guide to Change, for Change by Louise Derman-Sparks
Used - Good
Hardback
Teachers' College Press
20231031
224
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