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This month at QSLA, we focus on honoring, embracing, and supporting Black families. |
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Scroll through this newsletter for valuable Family Engagement resources as well as the NEW "You Asked, We Answered" section where we respond to your specific support requests.
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Supporting Black Families |
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Black History Month presents another opportunity for our early learning programs to honor, embrace, and support Black families. There are many ways we can bolster our existing program offerings accordingly - from further integrating Black culture into our programs and celebrating Black joy to exploring Black history with our children and program staff and building stronger supports for Black families and their children's well-being.
Check out the following resources and activities for your program:
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Staff Development and Support
Enhance Your Family Engagement Knowledge and Skills
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Brazelton Touchpoints Center is offering a series of webinars known as Parenting While Black that focuses on reclaiming, centering, and affirming our joy in raising Black children. This free webinar series offers a safe and welcoming space to hold conversations for and by Black families.
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Topics will include:
- Embracing Black Joy and Excellence;
- Parenting While Black in White Spaces;
- Birthing While Black;
- Black Mental Health
- and more!
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All are welcome to join and engage in these powerful conversations!
Dates:
- Monday, March 7th
- Monday, March 21st
- Monday, April 4th
- Monday, April 18th
- Monday, May 2nd
- Monday, May 16th
Time: All sessions are at 12:00PM PST
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These trainings support ECERS-R: Item 43- Opportunities for Professional Growth, PAS: Item 3- Staff Development, FCCERS-R: Item 37- Opportunities for Professional Development, and BAS: Item 1-Qualifications and Professional Development |
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Welcoming Environment
Ensure Your Program Feels Inviting
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This video is about how teacher-family home visits can help improve relationships between families and teachers. This can help disrupt implicit bias that may exist in the classroom, particularly focused for children of color or immigrant children.
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This video will support ECERS-R: Item 9 and FCCERS-R: Item 35- Provisions for Parents, PAS: Item 16- Family Communications, and BAS: Item 7- Provider Parent Communications. |
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Family Partnerships
Work with Families to Build a Stronger Program
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Have you wondered how to implement anti-bias practices into your early learning program? NAEYC has provided a great resource of helpful ideas to create an anti-bias environment. Click the button below to view the full article, which includes:
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Framework for Anti-Bias Teaching - This image highlights how to explore feelings, thinking, and responses to approach anti-bias.
- Definition of anti-bias education with concrete examples.
- Examples of activities to use within early learning programs.
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This resource will support ECERS-R: Item 38 and FCCERS-R: Item 35- Provisions for Parents, PAS: Item 16- Family Communications, and BAS: Item 7- Provider Parent Communications. |
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Community Partnerships
Use Community Resources to Strengthen Program Quality
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Sesame Street in Communities on Racial Justice offers great resources on how to develop children's understanding of the world around them and how to foster equality. Consider these resources to help navigate conversations and activities with the young children in your life.
Resources include:
- Printable materials to use with children.
- Videos about Explaining Race, Talking about Race, Self Care, & more!
- Articles about Racial Literacy, Racial Understanding, & more!
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Knowing and using these community resources will support PAS: Item 17- Family Support Involvement, BAS: Item 8-Community Resources, and NAEYC Accreditation: Standard 7-Families |
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COVID Updates and Resources on QSLA Website
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Each month, we respond to your needs as early educators by sharing helpful related QSLA resources as well as additional external resources.
As highly requested, this month we focus on COVID-19 updates. Check out the following resources for your staff & families:
Additionally, we have heard your feedback and will be adding the resources from our newsletters onto the website! Stay tuned for updates on this!
Are you looking for support in another area?
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