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Chapter 5 Engaging families and growing anti-bias partnerships

Chapter 5 Engaging families and growing anti-bias partnerships. CD 42 Dr. Gallegos. Chapter 5 The Framework for Working with Families. An Inclusive View of Families

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Chapter 5 Engaging families and growing anti-bias partnerships

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  1. Chapter 5Engaging families and growing anti-bias partnerships CD 42 Dr. Gallegos

  2. Chapter 5The Framework for Working with Families An Inclusive View of Families • Families include single-parent families, same-gender families, extended families, blended families, two-parent working families, foster families, and adoptive families. • Families also belong to various subgroups (e.g. racial, ethnic, socioeconomic class), which affects their everyday lives. • In anti-bias family partnerships, early childhood programs see families as reservoirs of knowledge and expertise, central to understanding the children they serve. • The program sets the one for dialogue and learning. • Leaders and teachers also must feel comfortable sharing power with families. • Learning about families is a process and not a one-time event.

  3. Introducing Anti-Bias Values and Expectations Preadmission • Families come to a program with varying levels of commitment to the community and its mission. • Be intentional about including ABE language as a priority in any tour of the program that families attend Intake and Orientation Process • Make sure that wording and questions of application and admissions paperwork refelcets respect for diversity and acknowledges that the child’s primary caretakers may be other than a mother or father (using guardian or caregiver) • Family Goal Form • Program Open House • Family Handbook and Program Website • Anti-Bias Newsletters

  4. Introducing Anti-Bias Values and Expectations • Create Family Visibility and Connection (pgs 78-80) • Reaching Out • Family Walls • Welcome in different languages • Family Artifact Bag • Family boxes • Family Book Bag

  5. Family Anti-Bias Education and Dialogues: A Two-Way Street • The leader must take into consideration how the adults that they are surrounded by (parents, teachers and staff) learn, preferred communication styles, and where families are in their anti-bias journeys. • Four topic-focused discussion sessions • Identity and Memories of School • Ethnicity and Language • Unlearning Stereotypes about Indigenous People • Community Activism

  6. Promoting Family Partnership and Leadership • Family Support System • Being available • Resources information • Diversity dialogues group • Families as Allies of Anti-Bias Education • Families Advocating for Differences • Family leadership and Initiative

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