Reply To: Trainer Monitored Discussion – Diversity and Colloboration

  • Scion

    Member
    November 17, 2022 at 5:27 am

    Q1. There are several policies put in place regarding diversity and family collaboration. To list a few, There are:

    1. WAC 110-300-0160 Promoting acceptance of diversity.

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

    3. WAC 110-300-0030 Nondiscrimination.

    4. WAC 110-300-0065 School readiness and family engagement activities.

    5. WAC 110-300-0080 Family support self-assessment.

    Q2: What big messages do the WACs give regarding diversity and collaboration?

    By combining the premises of each of the WACs above, we as childcare and early education providers have a duty to create a welcoming space for all types of children and all types of families. We must present, believe in, and encourage the growth of a community that is educational and lovingly accepting at its base; one where every child is learning about one another and what makes them special, and what makes them unique, and one where every child and their family feels validated and taken seriously and with integrity, wherever it may be that they are in their lives. We must provide a program that meets every child and every family where they are at, and make sure they are given the provisions that they need so that they can grow to be their very best.