ANTI-RACISM IN ECE ONTARIO
#ListenUpECE
WANT TO DO MORE?
We need you to help achieve the demands in this campaign!
Here are some ways pre-service ECEs, educators in the field, and organizations can help make the campaign heard and garner support for its demands.
Be loud! Use #ListenUpECE on your social media platforms to ensure we are being heard!
ADVOCACY FOR ORGANIZATIONS
As a group of volunteers we simply did not have the resources to connect with all the organizations who would potentially back this public letter. If you were not included in the co-signing - we still need your organizational support, here is how:
Ensure your staff all have anti-racism education.
Share this campaign through your organization's networks. Post this poster at your organization.
As an organization you can use the "Send your solidarity statement" link to send a call-to-action and your solidarity statement to ECE programs across Ontario and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
ADVOCACYÂ FOR PRE-SERVICE EDUCATORS
If you are currently enrolled in a pre-service early childhood education and care program you have power to make change to the curriculum. Target your program and demand they meet the needs of the early childhood profession.
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Organize! Work with your classmates and / or student union to target your specific program. Write a solidarity statement together. Share the call-to-action and include include your statement of solidarity to those in charge of your program. This includes your professors, the program chair, directors, and so on.
ADVOCACY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE WORKERS
Get your childcare centre on board! Talk to your coworkers. Share the call-to-action with your directors and your parent boards. Write and include your own statement of solidarity with the letter! Post this poster at work and around your neighbourhood.
GET THE MESSAGE OUT
While you're at it... make your message go further!
Email your MPP and tell them how important an anti-racist curriculum in ECEC is to you! Find your MPP contact here, direct them to this letter, and send them a call-to-action and accompanying solidarity statement.
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Contact your local municipalities and let them know you want to see these anti-racist changes in the 2021/2022 pre-service curriculum.
UNSURE OF HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN SOLIDARITY STATEMENT?
Check out these resources:
How to write solidarity letters from Reading to Decolonize: https://readingtodecolonize.ca/example-solidarity-letters/
Template for holding your academic institution accountable for racial justice from Brittney Williams (@brittney_m_w) and Samantha Rushworth (@moody_moonday): https://www.patreon.com/posts/template-for-37905478