equity

30 Simple Ways to Foster Equity & Belonging in Your Classroom

March 4, 2025
What can educators do right now to make their classrooms more welcoming, respectful, engaging, and safe for every learner? While larger, schoolwide changes are important, focusing on smaller, right-now actions… Read more

Structured Dialogue: An 8-Step Process for Planning Authentic Inclusion

April 25, 2024
Today’s post is excerpted and adapted from True Inclusion with UDL: Designing to the Edges to Reach Every Learner, by Patti Kelly Ralabate, Ed.D. Structured dialogue is a mechanism for… Read more

Equity in Early Ed: 3 Essential Resources for Your Program

February 29, 2024
As early childhood learning environments grow more and more diverse, schools and programs are turning more attention to creating equitable learning environments—and dismantling the systemic inequities that perpetuate achievement gaps.… Read more

Tips for Inclusive School Communities: Building Belonging & Equity

February 20, 2024
How can you promote equity and belonging in your inclusive school community? Try the tips in today’s post, excerpted and adapted from the new book True Inclusion With UDL by… Read more

8 Strategies for Culturally Responsive Family Engagement

September 19, 2023
*Today’s post is excerpted and adapted from The Handbook of Racial Equity in Early Childhood Education, by Jen Neitzel, Ph.D., & Ebonyse Mead, Ed.D., with invited contributors When early childhood… Read more

17 Teacher Tips for Multicultural Early Childhood Education

June 22, 2023
In their new book Coaching for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging in Early Childhood, Anni K. Reinking and Laycee Thigpen articulate a vision for improving child outcomes through transformative,… Read more

“Anti-Bias Practices Are Good for All Children”: An Equity Q&A with Jen Neitzel & Ebonyse Mead

May 25, 2023
Every early educator wants to give each child a bright start—and a big part of that goal is dismantling the biases and inequities that have created an achievement gap for… Read more

“Can’t We Just Keep Things Like They Are?”: 4 Equity Myths in Early Childhood

April 13, 2023
How can you start—or continue—your journey toward equity, access, and belonging for all children and families in your early childhood program? This essential work starts with dismantling the common myths… Read more