On February 15, 2021, 36 preservice teachers from Gallaudet University, Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, and the Maryland School for the Deaf, gathered for a virtual workshop presentation titled Teaching About the Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles in Early Childhood Classrooms.

The workshop was co-led by Makai Kellogg,  anti-bias early childhood educator and Equity and Diversity Coordinator at School for Friends, DCAESJ coordinator Rosalie Reyes, and Dr. Julie Mitchiner, MA Program Director and Co-Director of the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Infants, Toddlers, and their Families: Leadership & Collaboration Graduate Certificate Program. The workshop focused on children’s literature for each of the Black Lives Matter at School 13 Guiding Principles and pedagogical approaches to participating in the national movement for Black Lives Matter at School in early childhood education. The event served as a testimony to the intersectionality of the liberation movement for schooling and education and the support for anti-racist pedagogy within teacher preparation programs. 

Explore the early childhood education resources shared during the event. 

General Resources

The kid-friendly guiding principles posters and explanations. 

The 13 Guiding Principles ASL translation

Socialjusticebooks.org has a booklist by guiding principle. 

This recorded session with the author of the kid-friendly explanations, Laleña Garcia. (closed captioning)

Full video of Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice book launch. (closed captioning)

2021 Bank Street Black Lives Matter Week in Early Childhood Symposium video (closed captioned)

Early Childhood Resource Padlet

Makai Kellogg's Early Childhood Equity Endeavors Blog

NAEYC Article on Gender Identity and Expression

Teacher’s Guide for What We Believe

Books Featured in Slideshow by Guiding Principle

Empathy: I Walk with Vanessa 

Restorative Justice: One 

Queer Affirming: Mommy, Mama, and Me | Daddy, Papa and Me | Pride Colors | Worm Loves Worm 

Transgender Affirming: When Aidan Became a Brother | Julian is a Mermaid | It Feels Good to Be Yourself | A House for Everyone 

Loving Engagement: The Other Side | Each Kindness | Strictly No Elephants 

Intergenerational: Grandpa | Grandma's Records 

Globalism: One Plastic Bag | Africa is not a Country | Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings 

Diversity: Mama Zooms | Benny Doesn't Like to be Hugged | I am Latino | Mommy's Khimar 

Collective Value: Harvesting Hope | Click Clack Moo | Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down  | Si, Se Puede 

Black Women: Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa | Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History | Firebird

Black Villages: Miss Tizzy

Black Families: A Family is a Family is a Family | Baby Goes to Market  | The Big Bed | Hair Love