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About the Book–Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms

Dr. Iheoma Iruka, Research Professor of Public Policy at the University of Chapel Hill, shares the goals that she and the other three authors of Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms had in mind when writing this book. She communicates what educators, coaches, specialists, directors, and leaders of organizations can glean from this book as they work toward engaging in anti-biase, culturally-responsive education that preserves children’s race-identity, culture-identity, language, and most important of all, their humanity.
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Lemonheads and Whoppers—Professional Development Activity on Everyday Racial and Ethnic Diversity

The purpose of the following activity from Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms is to begin thinking about your level of interaction with people of different races and ethnicities. The authors of this book explain why being involved in racially and ethnically diverse social networks forces us to incorporate opposing points of view into our shared realities. Research has shown that exposing people to diverse group contact can also reduce implicit racial bias. Use this exercise to see how racially and ethnically diverse your world is, and look for areas where you could expand the diversity of the people you interact with in working to decrease bias and build a more diverse world.
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Pushing Past Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom

When teachers face challenging behaviors and emotions in the classroom, it is important for them to check in with themselves as they seek to guide children in the best way possible. You can't have calm, regulated children without calm, regulated adults! Angela Searcy, EdD—former neurodevelopment specialist with more than 25 years of experience in education and author of Push Past It! A Positive Approach to Challenging Classroom Behaviors—shares her strategy for teachers to calm themselves, then their children, and push past challenging behaviors and disruptions in the classroom.
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Books for Working with Challenging Behaviors in Early Childhood Classrooms

Challenging behaviors in the early childhood classroom can disrupt schedules and derail lesson plans. In this list, you will find books to help you understand what children are communicating through their behavior, guide you in establishing developmentally appropriate behavior guidance policies, and give you strategies for the toughest behavioral issues based on the latest research and evidence based practices.
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Three Tips for Embracing Anti-Biased, Anti-Racist Classrooms

Even though children are resilient in the face of many adversities, early childhood professionals can make the road a little smoother, especially for those children who face a lot of bumps, bruises, and hardships due to their race, ethnicity, culture, or religion. Tonia Durden, PhD—one of the four authors of Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms—offers 3 tips or strategies for creating high-quality, equitable, anti-biased, anti-racist, and culturally relevant education experiences.
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Books to Promote Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Every child deserves to feel safe, represented, included, and loved in their classroom environment so that they can learn, thrive, and reach their innate potential regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, culture, religion, or abilities. Early childhood educators can give all children this experience through culturally relevant pedagogy that connects classroom learning to children's home experiences and native languages. Check out this list of resources that will help early childhood educators promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their classrooms from exploring your own unconscious biases and connecting with families from varied cultural and language backgrounds to designing developmentally appropriate, consistent behavior-guidance policies and creating inclusive nature-based programs that connect every child to nature.
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3 Tips for Transition Times with Young Children

Rae Pica, author of Teachable Transitions: 190 Activities to Move from Morning Circle to the End of the Day and many other books, invites us to question why we often ask children to do things during transition times that they are not yet developmentally equipped to do. For example, be quiet, stand still, and stay in line. Oftentimes, these “asks” can make transition times stressful and frustrating for young children. Nature has put a process in place to help children develop the skills they need over time. Rae Pica proposes that we keep this developmental process in mind, and offers 3 developmentally appropriate tips to make transition times with young children less chaotic and less frustrating.
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Health and Safety Checklist for Preschools

One of the most important things that early childhood educators do is protect and promote the health and safety of young children. The Gryphon House book Preschool Health and Safety Matters by Jody Martin can help you on this journey by providing simple solutions for parents and teachers wishing to encourage health and wellbeing while supporting child safety practices. In her book, Jody Martin discusses many best practices for health and safety, including selecting or developing a safety checklist. Download the The Preschool Health and Safety Checklist here!
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Back to the Basics: General Health and Safety Tips for Early Childhood Settings

As we continue to assess and endure the Covid-19 pandemic globally, it can be easy to overlook the general health and safety procedures that we know work to keep children and staff healthy and safe in early childhood settings. Jody Martin, author of Preschool Health and Safety Matters, invites us to go back to the basics by sharing some general health and safety tips for teachers and administrators to assess and promote as habits including teaching hand-washing, inspecting classroom equipment and toys, and encouraging stress relieving activities.
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Books for Encouraging Classroom Safety & Health

Safety first! One of the most vital roles that early childhood teachers, educators, administrators, and caregivers have is to keep the children in their care safe, and promote their health. Safe and healthy environments allow kids to freely learn and play. Health and safety not only involves emergency or crisis preparedness, but also the daily promotion of healthy habits, hygiene, nutrition, fitness, injury prevention, transportation and pedestrian safety, mental wellness, and more. In the list of resources below, you will find guidelines, strategies, procedures, and activities for keeping children healthy and safe in your environment so they can be happy and healthy as they learn and grow!
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