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Don't Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms

Iheoma Iruka

Every day, 250 children are suspended from school. Many are children of color, deprived of opportunities to experience learning at the same rate and quality as white children. Many families don't feel heard or respected in their child's schools.

Don't Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms leads early childhood professionals to explore and address issues of bias, equity, low expectations, and family engagement to ensure culturally responsive experiences. Importantly, this book will challenge you to consider your perceptions and thought processes:

  • Identify your own unconscious biases--we all have them!
  • Recognize and minimize bias in the classroom, school, and community
  • Connect with children and their families
  • Help close the opportunity gap for children from marginalized communities

This book offers strategies, tools, and information to help you create a culturally responsive and equitable learning environment.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Gryphon House
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2020
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 10.00in - 7.00in - 0.30in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9780876598436
  • Categories: Inclusive EducationSchools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & KinderStudent Life & Student Affairs

About the Author

Iruka, Iheoma: - Iheoma Iruka, PhD, is the chief research officer for HighScope Educational Research Foundation. She is the former director of research and evaluation at the Buffett Early Childhood Institute at the Univ. of Nebraska and a former associate director at the FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill.