A Commitment to Equity: Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves
Dates: Thursday, May 18 & Friday, May 19, 2023
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Hanahau‘oli School Professional Development Center, 1922 Makiki Street, Honolulu, HI 96822
Cost: $200 per person. Registration scholarships available! Inquire here. Additionally neighbor island educators are eligible for a $200 travel stipend upon completion of the program.
Anti-Bias Education is a social justice framework that offers early childhood educators a variety of strategies to help children learn to be proud of themselves and their families, respect a range of human differences, recognize unfairness and bias, and speak up for the rights of others. This two-day workshop is for teachers, instructional coaches, program administrators and college faculty in the early childhood field, serving young children, birth through age eight. The goal of this workshop is for participants to gain an understanding about how young children’s self-identity and behavior are influenced by biases in our diverse society and how to engage children and adult learners in anti-bias education practices. Woven through this workshop will be self-reflection activities to help participants think critically about their own experiences and biases, which will strengthen their ability to work effectively with diverse children and adult learners.
$200 Registration Fee includes breakfast and lunch daily, plus textbook: “Anti-Bias Education: For young children and ourselves” by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards with Catherine M. Goins. Copyright 2020
About the Facilitator:
Dr. Terry Lock has spent over four and a half decades in the field of early childhood education (ECE), teaching children, parents, and college students; administering county, state, national programs; and working as a consultant. In the 1970’s, while working on her master’s degree at Pacific Oaks College in CA, she was mentored by Louise Derman-Sparks, an internationally respected anti-bias educator and the co-author of Anti-Bias Education. Dr. Lock received her Education Doctorate in Educational Professional Practice (Ed.D.) from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) College of Education (COE), where she currently directs the Hawaiʻi Early Childhood Educator Excellence and Equity (ECE3) Project focused on transforming early childhood teacher professional preparation programs and compensation/ financing systems. Besides anti-bias education, her other research interests are play-based and project-based learning, preschool through third grade alignment, pedagogical leadership, and integrated workforce and professional learning systems. Dr. Lock and her husband, Stephen, have three adult children and six grandchildren.