SCHOLASTIC TEACHING RESOURCES Scholastic Teaching Solutions Revolutionary Love for Early Childhood Classrooms

REVOLUTIONRY LOVE EARLY CHILDHOOD

This companion to Revolutionary Love presents do-tomorrow, asset-based strategies for preK-grade 2—all grounded in a culturally-responsive framework. A key goal of this book is to activate and energize early childhood educators so that they will view teaching Black students as exhilarating and rewarding—and propel student success.

Features

• Provides tools for examining our beliefs and instructional practices and using what we learn to create more inclusive, culturally sensitive environments for young children.
• Suggests ways to reframe play to be culturally inclusive, and ways to honor and build upon the languages children bring to the classroom
• Offers guidelines for reaching out to families and the community to enhance the early childhood curriculum and make it more relevant for students
• Speaks to all concerned teachers, regardless of their cultural background, geographic location, or class makeup
• Authors have worked as classroom teachers, university researchers, and teacher educators