Anti-Bias Education Goals

While there isn't one "right" way to implement anti-bias education into a classroom, at SCCS, we use the Four Goals in Anti Bias Education as published by NAEYC.

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GOAL 1: Identity

• Teachers will nurture each child's construction of knowledgeable, confident, individual personal and social identities. 

• Children will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities. 

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GOAL 2: Diversity

• Teachers will promote each child's comfortable, empathetic interaction with people from diverse backgrounds.

• Children will express comfort and joy with human diversity, use accurate language for human differences, and form deep, caring connections across all dimensions of human diversity. 

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GOAL 3: Justice

• Teachers will foster each child's capacity to critically identify bias and will nurture each child's empathy for the hurt bias causes.

• Children will increasingly recognize unfairness (injustice), have language to describe unfaireness, and understand that unfairness hurts. 

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GOAL 4: Activism

• Teachers will cultivate each child's ability and confidence to stand up for oneself and for others in the face of bias.

• Children will demonstrate a sense of empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions. 

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