[Rubi]

1. Which WACs address diversity and collaboration with families?

WAC 110-300-0085 – Family partnerships and communication.

2. What big messages do the WACs give regarding diversity and collaboration?

How to best accomodate each child’s individual characteristics, strengths, and needs.

How best to support the family, whether through opportunities relevant to their needs/questions, seeking input, through communication, and allowing access.

The biggest message I see through these WACs, are creating trust and reassurance with families.

[Mandy Hung]

1. Which WACs address diversity and collaboration with families? WAC 110-300-0160 Promoting acceptance of diversity. (1) An early learning provider must provide culturally and racially diverse learning opportunities. Diverse learning opportunities must be demonstrated by the provider’s curriculum, activities, and materials that represent all children, families, and staff.
2. What big messages do the WACs give regarding diversity and collaboration? The school welcomes everyone.

[Sheetal]

1. Which WACs address diversity and collaboration with families? 110-300-0160, 110-300-0320 addresses diversity while 110-300-0085 addresses collaboration with families.
2. What big messages do the WACs give regarding diversity and collaboration? The big message is that when you include practices in the classroom related to their culture it will show them that they are represented and appreciated there which will also make them want to participate more.

[Morgan]

They encourage a relationship with the families and to encourage diversity and be opened to all.

[Christine Taft]

WACs convey that childcare centers must be in communication with the families to understand the child’s background–cultural, developmental, and family wise. They must also be in contact with the family about developmental goals and how the child is doing. The program must have methods as to how best accommodate cultural and familial differences.

[Christine Taft]

It is addressed in WAC 110-300-0085 and WAC 110-300-0030.

[Shoshana]

1. Which WACs address diversity and collaboration with families? WAC 110-300-0160 – Promoting acceptance of diversity and WAC 110-300-0325 – Creating a climate for healthy child development.
2. What big messages do the WACs give regarding diversity and collaboration?

The WACs outline all areas that should be set up for diverse play and learning in the classroom and address challenging bias in the classroom.

[Jessica]

1. Which WACs address diversity and collaboration with families?
2. What big messages do the WACs give regarding diversity and collaboration?

1. Sections 0130-0296

2. That all training, environments and curriculum will be inclusive for all children.

[Kaydence Meikle]

The WAC’s state that an early learning provider must make sure they are providing culturally and racially diverse learning opportunities. These opportunities must represent everyone, their family’s and their culture. The messages convey that all toys, color books, and games must represent all children. The WAC states that everything must be very inclusive. The learning providers must also make it their job to intervene when biased behavior is reflected by children or guardians, they must always refuse to ignore bias. The children’s experiences are so malleable and these experiences shape who they become. It’s more than important that every child feels safe and accepted.

[Sara F.]

1. Which WACs address diversity and collaboration with families?
   WAC 110-300-0030 addresses nondiscrimination, and WAC 110-300-0160 aims at promoting acceptance of diversity.
2. What big messages do the WACs give regarding diversity and collaboration?
   Early learning providers MUST NOT discriminate in employment practices or client services based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, honorably discharged veteran or military status, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, or ability. In addition, early learning providers MUST provide culturally and racially diverse learning opportunities (via curriculum, activities, materials, and equipment) that represent all children, families, and staff.

[Crystal]

1. According to WAC 110-300-0160, an early learning provider must provide culturally and racially diverse learning opportunities. Diverse learning opportunities must be demonstrated by the provider’s curriculum, activities, and materials that represent all children, families, and staff.
A provider must use items such as diverse materials (dolls, clothing, etc.) and music in the child’s language, have a balance of different groups, and intervene to stop biased behaviors by anyone.
WAC 110-300-0085 addresses collaboration with families to help the child’s growth and development in the program.
WAC 110-300-0310 touches on facilitating activities to support child learning and understanding, including connecting concepts and activities to children’s lives, and encouraging communication in English and the child’s home language.

2. Regarding diversity and collaboration, the WACs encourages them for each child to feel comfortable expressing themselves and for healthy growth. They help children learn acceptance of themselves(for a positice self-image) and others, and help them learn to live in harmony with others around them.

[Margaret]

1. Which WACs address diversity and collaboration?

– WAC 110-300-0055

– Sections 0080 to 0085

– Sections 0300 to 0360

2. What big messages do the WACs give regarding diversity and collaboration?

– focuses on the child’s learning success, and considers the uniqueness of both the family home and center settings

-provide an avenue for early learning providers to partner with families in order to attain the highest outcomes

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[Kayleigh]

The WAC’s state that it is important to be welcoming to all people no matter what their background is. To make everyone feel included no matter what. Discrimination is unacceptable whether that’s by race, gender, or religious beliefs

[Yaire Campos-Cigarroa]

WAC 110-300-0160 clearly states that there should be a selection of dolls, books, and other materials that do not reinforce stereotypes, these being like pictures that only show kids with casual clothing and not formal clothing, or where only boys wear pants and girls can only wear dresses when really girls are also allowed to wear pants.

WAC 110-300-0315 also states that teachers in the classrooms should be aware of how the child responds to its developmental needs, as well as linguistic, cultural, and academic needs. for example, if a child is speaking in a different language, we do not as teachers want to discourage that self-talk but also try to talk along with them even if we have no idea what we are saying. we may translate it for our benefit of understanding, but we also want to make sure that the child knows that we are trying along with them.