From All to Each and Every:

Getting Explicit and Intentional About Commitments and Curiosities

Camille Catlett

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Considerations for Our Time Together

What questions is it important to ask? What resources can help each of us explore the answers to those questions? How can those questions support others on their journeys to equity and competence?

What behaviors will support intentionality in the work we do as individuals? In the work we do collectively? In the conversations we have with others?

How can authenticity be a hallmark of the work we do be? How can we avoid making assumptions?

  1. The danger of a single story
  • Assume Nothing clips
  1. The national leadership provided by ZERO TO THREE
  • The Changing Face of the United States: The Influence of Culture on Early Child Development
  1. Reinforcement for the leadership ZERO TO THREE is providing
  1. Supporting our youngest dual language learners
  2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Education. (2016). Policy statement on supporting the development of children who are dual language learners in early childhood programs.

Resources

  • Supporting the Learning and Development of Young DLLs
  • National Center on Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness
  • The Importance of Home Language series
  • Specific Strategies to Support Dual Language Learners (DLLs) When Adults Do Not Speak Their Language
  • The Young Dual Language Learner: 20 Short Videos

What kind of Asian are you?

  1. Supporting inclusion for children of diverse abilities
  2. US Department of Health and Human Services/US Department of Education. (2015, September). Policy statement on inclusion of children with disabilities in early childhood programs.

Resources

  • Resources to Support Inclusion

Brandon’s Story: A Mother’s Voice

  1. Recognizing the importance of engaging each family
  2. Family Engagement: From the Early Years to the Early Grades

Resources

  • Parenting Matters: Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8
  • Tuning In: Parents of Young Children Tell Us What They Think, Know and Need
  • Family Engagement Resources

Think Before You Judge a Family

  1. Recognizing how poverty, race, ethnicity, culture, and other factors can impact the success of young children
  • Policy Statement on Expulsion and Suspension Policies in Early Childhood Settings

Resources

  • Suspension-Expulsion Resources

School Suspensions Are an Adult Behavior

  1. Words and images
  • Diversity-informed Infant Mental Health Tenet 6: Understand that Language Can Be Used to Hurt or Heal
  • Getting clear about the words we use: e.g., authenticity
  • Strategies for bringing new words to a conversation
  1. The danger of a single dimension
  • Personal culture: The seen and the unseen
  • Asking the right questions in the right ways
  • Checklists
  1. Commitments and curiosities