ANTI-RACISM IN ECE ONTARIO
#ListenUpECE
ANTI-RACISM IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
#ListenUpECE: Help make this campaign more successful by taking these three easy steps.
Currently anti-racism is not mandatory in pre-service university and college early childhood education and care programs in Ontario or anywhere in Canada. That means ECEs and childcare workers are being trained, certified, and hired into the field without an understanding of the ways racism is present in childhood and the early childhood sector. Let's change that and ensure no early childhood education and care worker enters the field without this essential knowledge!
Step 1: Sign the open letter.
Step 2: Use the ready-to-send template below to write change makers directly.
Step 3: Share this campaign!
STEP 1: SIGN THE OPEN LETTER
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Help demand that early childhood pre-service programs:
1. Include a mandatory course on anti-racism, taught by a Black educator, in the first year of all pre-service early childhood programs. This course must centre Black and Indigenous scholarship and theory and consider how trauma, gender, and disability intersect with race to ensure multiple identities are explored.
2. Insert anti-racist frameworks into the entirety of all pre-service early childhood courses provided in Ontario universities and colleges.
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3. Contribute to the development of anti-racist policies within the entirety of the childcare system.
STEP 2: SEND A PERSONAL LETTER
The "Send Mail" link below will take you to a ready-to-send email directed to all program directors of Early Childhood pre-service programs in Ontario as well as the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
Your stories are important:
Edit this message to include your own personal reasons for supporting mandatory anti-racism within early childhood pre-service curriculum.
Personalize the subject line to make it more likely to be read.
Personal emails such as this are an effective way to get this message heard and tell the sector we are paying attention.
As an organization use this tool to send change makers a letter in solidarity.
Use this document to copy and paste into your email or use the Send Email button.
STEP 3: SHARE
Use the hashtag #ListenUpECE so we can connect and share our message to a wider audience! Be sure to capitalize the first letter of every word in the hashtag so it is more accessible!
Share on social media accounts.
Personally email friends and family and ask for their support.
Ask organizations you are affiliated with to make a solidarity response.
Save these easy-to-share images for social media or print these posters and post them at your childcare space and in your neighbourhood!
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