Sentences with phrase «children about diversity»

I think it's also about teaching children about diversity and difference and helping them learn to respect and not be afraid of a number of categories of difference.

What is the link between a project to design a national park using Minecraft, a program for finding rooms on a school campus, and a game teaching children about diversity and tolerance?

Educate your older children about diversity, respect, democracy, the bifurcation of our economy, the checks and balances of our system, etc..

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This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

Inspectors failed schools on «diversity» criteria based on young children declining to talk about their «attitudes to homosexuality».

La Casita guides the child to learn about different cultures in the world and the role that appreciation of diversity and cultures in the world and the role that appreciation of diversity and cultural understanding play in promoting world peace.Info: 510-724-1724 or email: [email protected]... Read More

she blogs at Fine and Fair, a blog written to and for her children about the ups and downs along the journey of raising them as responsible citizens of the world with the values of compassion toward all living things, environmental responsibility, conservation, and celebrating diversity in all of its forms.

As with other tough topics, it helps to talk to your child early and often about racial diversity.

Kids do see color - and when parents ignore it, the lesson children learn is that diversity is something too scary to talk about.

Try to get more detail about what the observation means to your child, says Susan Linn, a psychologist at the Judge Baker Children's Center at Harvard Medical School and coauthor of Talking to Children about Racism, Prejudice and Diversity.

By posting images of the wide diversity there is in infant and toddler feeding, we can help remind ourselves and the rest of the world that we are people with feelings just trying to do our best in the normal act of feeding our children and we can be trusted to make the best decisions about that according to information, our personal circumstances, and our access to resources.

Don't worry so much about the nuances and enjoy the diversity of experience you are offering your child.

The programs often attract children from different backgrounds, and many parents prize them for boosting diversity and teaching about other cultures.

His conclusion is supported by prior findings that about 30 percent of Malagasy have the same mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child — far less diversity than in typical human populations, which share less than 2 percent.

Making education uniform at too high of a level of aggregation ignores the diversity of needs of our children as well as the diversity of opinion about how best to serve those needs.

What is it about diversity in the kinds of stories we tell children that is especially enriching to their lives?

The workshop and resources are part of a series of 6 workshops that we have created to help inspire you to talk to your children about, and they can be done as stand - alone activity sessions or as a series to ensure that your children can fully understand and appreciate the concepts of equality and diversity.

Grotzer says that Solis» important ethnographic work is helping the field of children's cognitive development better understand the diversity of play and its role in cultures outside the West, and understanding what parents and community members believe about play is crucial for designing educational interventions.

«It's about embracing the idea that diversity is the reality and that each child is a unique learner,» said NIUSI's director, Elizabeth Kozleski.

Fronted by Ashley Banjo, Diversity founder and Britain's Got Talent Winner, Active Kids Superstar Cooks will excite children aged 5 - 16 about preparing and cooking great tasting food.

Among the policies needed in New York, Dr. Orfield said, were citywide efforts to educate parents about magnet schools, transportation options to help children get to schools outside their often - segregated neighborhoods and accountability for diversity.

He talked with us about innovative ways schools of all kinds can increase economic diversity in their schools and why that's important for children in poverty.

Each time a taunt based on a child's exceptionality (such as «nerd» or «dweeb») is permitted in the classroom or on the playground, each time a highly gifted child is deliberately held back academically, each time a school policy prohibits academic acceleration or continuous progress, we need to ask, «What messages are we giving all children about developing talents, about the value of academic achievement, and about intellectual diversity?»

I believe the true beauty of humanity lies in our ethnic and cultural diversity and that learning about this diversity prepares children to lead more peaceful lives in their adulthood.

In 2014, the hashtag: #WeNeedMoreDiverseBooks became a movement when a Twitter discussion about the lack of diversity in the children's genre went viral.

The author of the Noughts and Crosses series speaks to our contributing editor Lucy Coats about her path to publication, top writing tips — and the need for greater diversity in children's books.

Malorie Blackman talks about her path to publication, top writing tips — and the need for greater diversity in children's books.

Author Darcy Pattison recently wrote about the need for books about troubled families on the Children's Book Council Diversity blog.

Supporting innovative book authoring is one way to address the ongoing concern in children's book publishing about the lack of diversity of topics portrayed in children's storybooks.

Students are featured gathering data about migrating birds and butterflies, the changing of the seasons, water quality and flow, tree growth, plant diversity and range, and frog populations.What a great idea to have your students or children learn about data and how they can help!

New York, NY About Blog LEE & LOW BOOKS an independent children's book publisher specializing in diversity.

This year our aim is to empower young people to celebrate diversity online in order to inspire a kind, respectful and inclusive internet, and help raise awareness about the issue of online hate and ensure no child is ever targeted online for being different.

This broad diversity makes it imperative for both parents to become fully educated about all child custody laws that are relevant to the location where the child custody rights are assigned.

Do you want to know more about welcoming diversity in your early childhood education and care service, or supporting the mental health of children with additional needs?

They express negative views of sexual and gender diversity, not realising that every utterance is a blow to the identity of the child, just starting to learn about their place in the world (and in some cases doing this deliberately in attempt to control the sexual or gender identity of the child).

The Educator Guide serves as an introduction to the «Building Belonging» toolkit of resources which supports early childhood educators in teaching children about cultural diversity and addressing prejudice in early childhood settings.

Helping all children understand difference encourages them to feel good about who they are, understand where they fit into the world and appreciate diversity in others.

Helping children to understand difference encourages them to feel good about themselves, understand where they fit in the world, and appreciate diversity in others.

Talking with children about differences allows them to feel good about who they are and appreciate diversity in themselves and others.

Living in a predominantly white community means that my child is not often exposed to children or families of color, thus I spend time thinking about diversity as it is represented in other sources of «input,» like books and media.

If we're thinking about children and families, oftentimes the first category we think of is cultural and linguistic diversity.

Help children to appreciate diversity by talking openly and positively about differences and encouraging mutual respect and positive valuing of one another.

Educating parents about the implications of diversity for child rearing and child care and orienting parents to the child care setting.

Julia noted that «the biggest challenge is not to implement the EYLF in tokenistic ways with respect to diversity; it's important to get community ideas about the EYLF and how they see it as relating to them and their children».

Participants of this workshop will explore, share and learn about cultural diversity within grief work in child and adult therapy.

In this episode of The Family Couch, we talk with Dr. Deidra Sorrell about how to talk about diversity with children as well as discussing her book on this topic.