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Stay updated on new developmentsHow Alberta Educators Can Support Immigrant & Newcomer Families
Are you an educator or program leader eager to enhance your intercultural practice skills and better support multilingual families? If…
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Introducing Spark: A Guide to Culturally Responsive Early Learning and Child Care in Alberta
This guide aims to strengthen skills in the early learning and child care workforce to practice culturally responsive child care—while…
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Applying a principle-based approach to culturally responsive child care
The Spark Guide describes five guiding principles of culturally responsive child care. The principles can apply to culturally responsive child…
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Examining and unlearning biases and stereotypes
Biases are prejudices or unsupported judgments that people make in favour of or against a person or a group of…
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Creating a fair, equitable, and inclusive society through child care
Culturally responsive child care supports a fair, equitable, and inclusive society. Being culturally responsive can reduce inequities and raise achievement…
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Understanding culturally responsive child care
It is important to first understand what culture means before describing culturally responsive child care. What is ‘culture’? Culture is…
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