Elevating Equity:: Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs - Softcover

Searcy, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1636501141 ISBN 13: 9781636501147

Publisher: Gryphon House, 2023

Synopsis

Elevating Equity
Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs
​Angela Searcy, EdD

Elevating equity requires educators to be mindful of how to include children, families, and colleagues in all parts of early childhood programming. Elevating equity is all about creating systems that celebrate everyone! Sounds great-but how do you do it?

Elevating Equity: Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs takes a positive approach by embracing differences and meeting readers where they are.

- Get nonjudgmental, practical advice from an experienced trainer and educator.
- Find out how to have healthy, respectful, and productive conversations about what equity means and how it looks in practice.
- Discover strength-based, evidencegrounded techniques that lead to professional growth and learning in your early childhood program.

With practical examples, research, tips, advice, self-reflections, and real stories--shared with Angela Searcy's warm humor--you'll discover how to find common ground and truly elevate educational access for the children and families you serve.

About this title

About the Author

Angela Searcy, EdD, has more than 25 years of experience in education, providing services to children and families as a teacher, child-development specialist, and independent consultant. A Former neurodevelopment specialist, she is the owner and founder of Simple Solutions Educational Services, a professional-development company. She is a trainer, a speaker, and a continuing-education instructor at the Erikson Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

Elevating equity requires educators to be mindful of how to include children, families, and colleagues in all parts of early childhood programming. Elevating equity is all about creating systems that celebrate everyone! Sounds great-but how do you do it?

Elevating Equity: Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs takes a positive approach by embracing differences and meeting readers where they are.

- Get nonjudgmental, practical advice from an experienced trainer and educator.
- Find out how to have healthy, respectful, and productive conversations about what equity means and how it looks in practice.
- Discover strength-based, evidencegrounded techniques that lead to professional growth and learning in your early childhood program.

With practical examples, research, tips, advice, self-reflections, and real stories--shared with Angela Searcy's warm humor--you'll discover how to find common ground and truly elevate educational access for the children and families you serve.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gryphon House
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636501141
• ISBN 13: 9781636501147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280