# 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…
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### 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…
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### 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.…
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### 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…
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### 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…
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### 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,…
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### “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…
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### “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…
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