Available
In-Person Workshops

ORO Set 1, 3 hours, CKC Diversity

This 3-hour workshop takes participants through:

• Identifying and reflecting on their own implicit bias

• Creating culturally relevant, inclusive, and responsive environments

• Promoting conversations with young children and their families about diversity, justice, and inclusion

While the base of this workshop is the same, you have the option of selecting focus topics such as:

• Justice & Inclusion tools

• How to have difficult conversations

• Literacy

• Involving Families, creating family belonging and participation, building parent relationships

• Storytelling

Threads of Justice workshops are facilitated by a team of at least two presenters to ensure more diverse perspectives.

ORO Set 1, 3 hours, CKC Diversity

This workshop takes participants through:

• Identifying and reflecting on their own implicit bias

• Strategies for facilitating successful and ongoing communication with staff and families - using an anti-bias approach and broaching difficult topics

• Creating an inclusive and welcoming community culture where staff and families feel belonging

Participants will reflect on their own learning contexts and strengthen their toolbox for building meaningful and lasting relationships. In this workshop we will discuss systemic challenges that create barriers to belonging and work together to make visible strategies, grounded in inclusion, to create community. We will examine supports for providers and parents in understanding how our work and interactions with children are impacted by the existence of bias.

Threads of Justice workshops are facilitated by a team of at least two presenters to ensure more diverse perspectives.

ORO Set 1, 3 hours, CKC Diversity

Description coming soon!

ORO (pending) Set 2, 3 hours, CKC Diversity

The Pyramid Model and Anti-Bias Education (ABE) are aligned in mission & values and similarly teach & implement practices. We will examine how the Pyramid Model is intertwined with inclusion, compare it to the goals of ABE, and explore why the order matters. Participants will reflect on their identities, their “why”, and apply their learning to an action plan.

ORO Set 2, 6-10 hours, CKC Diversity

We will explore in-depth strategies and tools for participants to take a central role in the creation of inclusive, anti-bias organizations. We will examine models and / methods for developing mission or vision statements, policies and practices, professional / development and parent and community partnerships for organizations striving to put / equity and justice at the center of their work.

ORO Set 2, 3 hours, CKC Diversity

This workshop will validate previous efforts to implement anti-bias education in early childhood classrooms along with inspiring new consideration for the importance and timeliness of this work today. Participants will share stories, explore the most current understandings of social identities, reflect on their own identity's impact on teaching, and gain tools for responding to the needs and inclusion of all children and families.

ORO Set 2, 3 hours, CKC Diversity

When we engage in Anti-Bias Education with children, we ask them to have open conversations that challenge their beliefs about the world. However, as adults we often struggle to do this ourselves. In Willingness to be Disturbed, participants will look inwardly to examine their thoughts and biases, and how those affect their ability to have open and critical conversations.

Is your staff working on a particular project? Exploring a specific idea? We are happy to collaborate to create a custom workshop that will be relevant and specific to your context and learning edge.

Similarly, you can reach out if you'd like to request one of the offered workshops be tailored to your specific context or current staff learning.

Custom workshops are open for out of the box thinking, they can be varying lengths or over multiple days. Let us know what your ideas are, we'd be happy to work together to create an amazing learning experience.