Early Childhood: Becoming an Anti-Bias Teacher

This interdisciplinary guide for teachers, administrators, students, and parents offers lessons and readings that show how to:

• Analyze the roots of racism
• Investigate the impact of racism on all our lives, our families, and our communities
• Examine the relationship between racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism, and heterosexism
• Learn to work to dismantle racism in our schools, communities, and the wider society

Beyond Heroes and Holidays has sold over 55,000 copies to date and is used as a core curriculum in college courses.

Can your classroom celebrate holidays respectfully? Can holidays be fun anymore? Yes and yes! Celebrate! is filled with strategies for exciting holiday activities that are unbiased and developmentally appropriate. Chapters include "Developing a Holiday Policy," "Selecting Holidays," "Addressing Stereotypes and Commercialism," and "Evaluating Holiday Activities." The book also describes how you can involve families in the celebration. "Julie Bisson tackles one of the most controversial and explosive aspects of multicultural education. She brings clarity and insight to the role of holidays and celebrations in early childhood programs. She answers the complaint, 'What am I supposed to do instead?' Her suggestions and real-life examples help us envision a new way of celebrating with children and families. Celebrate! is a much needed, long-awaited addition to my bookshelf. It should be on every teacher's wish list and in every program's resource library." —Stacey York, author, Roots and Wings and Big as Life. Sample chapter here (in PDF).

Writers since Piaget have questioned when and how children assimilate racist attitudes or simply become aware of racial differences. This remarkable book offers stirring evidence that the answers may be more surprising than we ever imagined. The rich accounts of children's behavior around race are drawn from Van Ausdale's ethnographies, conducted in several multi-ethnic daycare centers. When she persistently divested herself of any authoritative role, children as young as 3 years gradually revealed to her a surprising array of racial attitudes, assumptions, and behaviors — most of which they normally withhold from parents and adult companions. The careful ethnographic analysis, conducted over many months, lead the authors to question many of our long-held assumptions about the nature of race and racial learning in American society.

"Since publication of the 1997 edition of Tabors' (Harvard Graduate School of Education) text, the number of young English language learners (ELLs) in the U.S. has increased substantially and, with it, the need for resources to help early childhood educators develop techniques to more effectively serve their young learners. Revised and updated throughout to reflect current developments in early childhood education research and practice, the second edition features a stronger focus on literacy and how to incorporate effective literacy teaching in the early childhood classroom, expanded information about assessment practices that are effective for second-language learners, and a new chapter on internationally-adopted children. The text also includes a new study guide for use in professional development workshops and in education courses. Reproducible forms and tools are included on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Start Seeing Diversity introduces teachers to bias as it emerges in the early childhood classroom and helps them to establish a framework to respond effectively. The scenes in the video show the results of the Washington-Beech Community Preschool's work with public housing tenants and the Committee for Boston Public Housing to create a responsive childcare program. Accompanied by discussion guide. Running time: 45 minutes.

In this compelling volume, distinguished educators tackle a frequently-asked question about multicultural education: How do I teach about racial and cultural diversity if all my students are white? The authors propose seven learning themes to help young white children resist messages of racism and build identity and skills for thriving in a multicultural country and world.

Walk into any racially-mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together — the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this self-segregation a problem we should try to fix or a coping strategy we should support? How can we get past our reluctance to talk about racial issues to even discuss it? And what about all the other questions we and our children have about race? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences: whites are afraid of using the wrong words and being perceived as "racist" while parents of color are afraid of exposing their children to painful racial realities too soon. Using real-life examples and the latest research, Tatum presents strong evidence that straight talk about our racial identities—whatever they may be—is essential if we are serious about facilitating communication across racial and ethnic divides. We have waited far too long to begin our conversations about race. This remarkable book, infused with great wisdom and humanity, has already helped hundreds of thousands of readers figure out where to start. With a discussion guide and a new epilogue by the author, this is the fifth anniversary edition of the bestselling work on the development of racial identity.