Laura welcomes Dr. Jasmine Moses, an anti-bias early childhood educator dedicated to promoting anti-bias and anti-racist practices within early childhood education. Jasmine shares insights into how anti-bias education can help raise more aware, kind, and forgiving children. This chat covers the importance of addressing biases, involving the community in this collective effort, and using children's literature as a powerful tool to promote diversity, inclusivity, and critical thinking among young children.

Highlights:

1. Defining Anti-Bias Education: Laura and Jasmine discuss their shared understanding of this complex topic and the four aspects of this work.
2. Incorporating Anti-Bias Education into ECE: Learn how anti-bias work seamlessly fits into early childhood education. Jasmine provides insights into the important work adults must do to engage in learning alongside children.
3. Using Children’s Literature: Laura and Jasmine share resources, favorite books, prompts to use, and questions to ask yourself (and children).

If you’re ready to start being proactive rather than reactive when addressing topics of culture, race, gender, and more, this episode will help. Jasmine shares practical tips on selecting diverse books and offers an extensive list of recommended reads for both children and adults engaging in anti-bias education. Additionally, you’ll learn some places to start and how to start decentering yourself and centering this work.

Connect with Laura:

• Instagram: @little.stories.that.stick
• Website: Little Stories That Stick
• Free Guidebook: Culturally Responsive & Inclusive Storytelling

Connect with Jasmine:

• Instagram: @theantibiasece
• Website: The Anti-Bias ECE
• Free Guide: Now We're Talking

Resources:

• Social Justice Books
• • Guide for selecting children’s books
  • Book lists

Some of the Books Mentioned:

• Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves by Louise Derman-Sparks
• Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World by Traci Baxley
• Raising Anti Racist Children: A practical guide by Britt Hawthorne
• First Conversations books
• Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder
• Big by Vashti Harrison