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An Innocent Question Packed with Opportunity

Author Maria Beteta describes how an innocent question became an opportunity to explore powerful concepts such as identity, culture, self-perception, differences, and similarities that connect us all.

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Authored by: 
Maria Jose Beteta
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Embracing Disability Identity: Representation in Literature as a Tool Towards Inclusivity

In this article, we share how reading experiences served as jumping off points for exploring how disability representation in children’s literature can be incorporated as an essential component of teacher preparation and children’s literacy learning. 

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Authored by: 
Maria Mavrides Calderon, Isabel Mavrides-Calderon
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Learning to Train Surf

In this essay, I share how my perceptions of my students’ capabilities—and my own—were deeply influenced by my identity as a White, gay, cis male from a rural college town.

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Authored by: 
David P. Barry
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Introduction: Using Identity Narratives to Inform ECE Practice

The authors in this collection examine their own identities by looking at their histories; reflecting on how their identities that arise from group memberships influence their teaching.

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Authored by: 
Barbara Henderson, Isauro M. Escamilla, Megina Baker, Amanda Branscombe, Maleka Donaldson, Debra Murphy, Andrew J. Stremmel
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Young Children
March 1, 2023

Rainy Day, Let’s Play! Outdoor Learning for All (Voices)

Challenged by the pandemic, educators at an urban, public school embraced outdoor learning and recommitted to a play-based curriculum.

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Authored by: 
Lena Johnson, Lydia Mackie
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Voices of Practitioners
December 1, 2022

Teaching Behind the Mask

This collection of Voices focuses on what we all have been learning about ourselves and our work over the past year and a half of overlapping crises in our nation and the world.

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Authored by: 
Barbra Blender, Eliana Elias
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Voices of Practitioners
December 1, 2022

Gender Exploration in Preschool: A Director’s Story

This collection of Voices focuses on what we all have been learning about ourselves and our work over the past year and a half of overlapping crises in our nation and the world.

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Authored by: 
Alexandra Dutton
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