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WAC 110-300-0160 “Promoting Acceptance of Diversity” indicates that 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. Additionally, an early learning provider must intervene appropriately to stop biased behavior displayed by children or adults.

WAC 110-300-0085 “Family Partnerships and Communication” indicates that an early learning provider must communicate with families to identify individual children’s developmental goals. An early learning provider must attempt to obtain information from each child’s family about that child’s developmental, behavioral, health, linguistic, cultural, social, and other relevant information. The provider must make this attempt upon that child’s enrollment and annually thereafter. An early learning provider must determine how the program can best accommodate each child’s individual characteristics, strengths, and needs.