Activity 2.2 | Anti-bias practice (identity, diversity, justice, action)

Read Moving Beyond Anti-Bias Activities: Supporting the Development of Anti-Bias Practices(Kuh et al., 2016)

Use the “Framework for Anti-Bias Teaching” (Kuh et al, 2016) to work through an entry point that feels emotionally charged for you. This emotional charge might be connected to something in the news that you don’t know how to approach with children, or perhaps it is something about your identity that you are cautiously curious to explore.

Spend time completing the table from the framework.

As a child care manager and leader, this is a tool that you can introduce to early childhood educators. Ensuring that you work through this tool a few times before introducing it is essential. 

Recall the video Can you heal intergenerational trauma? (Resmaa Menakem, Sounds True, 2023), and the need to exercise some of these skills before setting a course on the marathon ahead. 

Remember to stay in your body, use your tools to return to the body and the breath, and let go of the desire for perfection.

Reference

Kuh, L., LeeKeenan, D., Given, H., & Beneke, M. R. (2016, March). Moving Beyond Anti-Bias Activities: Supporting the Development of Anti-Bias Practices. National Association for the Education of Young Children. https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/mar2016/moving-beyond-anti-bias-activities