Vermont Head Start Association
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Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha follows up her keynote sessions with a workshop offered to members of the Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, Vermont Afterschool, and Vermont Child Care Providers Association. Thursday, October 29th: Pick 1 time to attend the follow up workshop lead by Dr. Hanna-Attisha […]
Plenary Session: Anti-Bias Education is for Each and Every Child and Educator: Insights and Strategies from Pioneering Anti-Bias Educators Louise Derman-Sparks and Debbie LeeKeenan The first of three plenary sessions: Anti-bias education is essential to early childhood education but it is sometimes unclear how to put it in practice in majority or exclusively white programs. […]
Having Brave Conversations with Children About Identities, Diversity, and Fairness Louise Derman-Sparks and Debbie LeeKeenan Description: Young children notice and are curious about the diversity among people and create their own ideas about differences. They pay attention to the positive or negative values adults assign to specific ways of being—and begin to learn socially -prevailing stereotypes and […]
Having Brave Conversations with Children About Identities, Diversity, and Fairness Louise Derman-Sparks and Debbie LeeKeenan Repeat workshop from morning session. Registration link.
All Together Now: Progress and Promise in Advancing Early Childhood Education as a Profession Rhian Evans Allvin, CEO of NAEYC; Marica Cox Mitchell, Bainum Family Foundation; Yvette Sanchez Fuentes, Delaware Dept of Ed, Dept of Early Learning; and Ashley Williams, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, UC Berkeley Plenary Session: The second of […]