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Cause to Pause

• Find someone in the room you don’t know well

• Introduce yourself

• Discuss: What does the content you just heard have to do with your work with children and families?

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Practices that Support Each Child’s Full Participation

Assess and update your own practices

Engage families

Reflect each child in your environments, materials, and interactions

Focus on the potential of each child

Maintain high expectations and support each child in achieving them

Do you ask respectful questions?

• Where is home for you originally?• Tell me a little bit about the story of

___________’s name.• And when in doubt, assume nothing.

ASK.

Do you use person first language?

Cognitive or intellectual disability instead of mentally retarded

Individual with autism instead of autistic person

More inclusive of all caregivers andconfigurations

Do you use “family” or “parent and family”?

Do you pronounce each child’s name the way his/her family does?

Top 10 Names for All Children Top 10 Names for Hispanic or Latino Children

Have you eliminated outdated and hurtful words from your vocabulary?

• So articulate for a black man• I jewed the price down• That is so gay• Illegal alien• That is so retarded

Do you• find out about the

language(s) spoken by each child and family?

• learn basic vocabulary in the language(s) of each child and family?

• incorporate the songs, games, and music of each child and family?

2. Engage families

• Higher preschool performance and promotion to next grade

• More positive engagement with peers, adults, and learning

• Buffers negative impact of poverty on academic and behavioral outcomes

Positive outcomes from effective family

engagement

3. Reflect each child in your environments, materials and interactions

Books and pictures

Environmental labels

Cooking utensils

Dolls

Music

Games

When children do not see

themselves represented in an

environment, it can harm their self-

concept and sense of belonging.

Children who are not represented

may not be as readily accepted by

their peers.

High-quality, culturally responsive early learning environments that support each child’s full participation are critical to closing achievement gaps

Do you find out something that inspires/ intrigues/delights each child?

Culturally responsive interactions between personnel and young children are more likely to support progress toward children’s mastery of language, literacy, science, and math skills

4. Focus on the potential of each child instead of factors that might place that

child at risk

5. Maintain high expectations and support each child in achieving them

Teachers sometimes believe - either consciously or unconsciously – that their

students are deficient and that their underachievement is the result of limited

potential. When we talk about people having underdeveloped muscles, we say they’re out of shape. We don’t say they’re deficient. . . [F]ocus on the idea that the brain is like a

muscle; it requires specific exercises, guided personal training, and relevant and

meaningful instruction to build competence.

To support each child’s full participation, what will you do to. . . • Engage their families?• Reflect each child in your environment and materials?• Build on each child’s strengths?• Maintain high expectations and support each child in achieving

them?

You have a new group of preschool age children to work with. • Several of the children qualify for

free/reduced meals. • Several of the children speak Spanish

exclusively at home.• Several of the children are from different

New Mexico tribes.

Summary

• The more you know about your own culture, the more you will be able to support the full participation of each child and their family

• Culturally relevant, respectful and responsive environments, interactions, and practices support the full participation of each young learner

• Culturally respectful and responsive educators can make a tremendous difference for each New Mexico child and their family

What you do next will make a difference for each child and family

Look at your self-assessment

Put a star next to things you want to do differently to support each child’s full participation

Find a partner and share how you will make that happen

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