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Valuing Diversity
April 23, 2012
An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.
-Benjamin Franklin
-Benjamin Franklin
"There are places, but not many, where diversity really works and greatly enriches the organization. Based on appreciation and understanding grounded in respect, these child care centers have a basic belief that good care and education comes in different forms — that what is good care is allowed to be arguable. There is a high tolerance for difference....
"For a person or a program, the key to understanding and respecting differences is having a good sense of who you are and knowing the boundaries of what you are. Not too many child care programs are that self-aware, and there is a reason for this. In child care, you have no time to talk, so you really don't talk about things that may lead to controversy. You don't thrash out what exactly you are, what you believe. What are the boundaries of how much language you need to have in your program? If you really believe that classrooms have to be incredibly verbal, it's going to limit the kind of cultures you have in that classroom. If you believe that all children process information the same way or use the same social behavior, it's the same thing. Knowing whom you are, being comfortable with that, and knowing the boundaries of your ideology and the program will reduce conflict....
"Diversity is the spice of life. It also makes us sneeze a lot. If we believe in it, we have to take the time to think it through for our programs."
- Art of Leadership CD Book
- Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Behavior
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Child Development
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Child Development
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Curriculum: Art, Music, Movement, Drama
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Curriculum: Brain Research, Math, Science
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Environments
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Literacy
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Play
- Beginnings Workshop Book - Professionalism
- Caring Spaces, Learning Places
- Connecting: Friendship in the Lives of Young Children and Their Teachers
- Conversations on Early Childhood Teacher Education
- Docia's Stories
- From Conflict to Peace Building
- Hearing Everyone's Voice
- How Does it Feel?
- Managing Money: A Center Director's Guidebook
- Modelando - Modeling with Children Under Six Years Old
- More Than Numbers
- Natural Playscapes
- Not Just Small Change: Fund Development for Early Childhood Programs
- Parent Relations
- Places for Childhoods
- Staying on Course: The Early Childhood Board's Guide to Success
- Teaching Four Year Olds
- Top Ten Preschool Parenting Problems
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Love this and miss Jim Greenman.
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