Creating Equitable Early Learning Environments for Young Boys of Color: Disrupting Disproportionate Outcomes
Creating Equitable Early Learning Environments for Young Boys of Color: Disrupting Disproportionate Outcomes was developed in collaboration between the California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division (EED) and the WestEd Center for Child and Family Studies. It is a groundbreaking resource for early childhood educators committed to improving race equity within their classrooms and programs and disrupting the exclusionary disciplinary practices— suspensions, expulsions, and pushouts—that disproportionately impact our youngest Boys of Color. Drawing on the most contemporary research, the authors discuss the rates of exclusionary disciplinary practices in early childhood and the underlying reasons for these patterns including different forms of oppression with a focus on structural racism and implicit bias.