Early care and education (ECE) professionals working toward antiracism use culturally responsive competencies like recognizing and addressing biases in systems and building partnerships with families to create equitable programs. This course explains how racism can hide in program policies and how bias can influence practices. Creating a program culture where educators’ and families’ voices are included in the reworking of program structures to address racism and bias’s unfair impact is an essential step toward becoming an antiracist program. (2 hours)
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By taking this course, professionals will:
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Discover ways that overt and covert racism influences organizational culture
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Examine program policies and handbooks to ensure they lead to equitable outcomes
- Plan ways to embed culturally responsive, antiracist practices--in systems and when building partnerships with families--into everyday program practices
