A Student Success Framework for Community College

The inclusion of the visual and performing arts in the classroom promotes experiential learning where children build their knowledge and understandings during hands-on, minds-on experiences. In addition, by including visual and performing arts experiences as part of STEM learning, early childhood teachers can build upon student interests and understandings to help support young children as they experience meaningful, relevant connections between each content area. Early childhood educators have important roles in early arts-rich STEM experiences and can act as both a guide and facilitator throughout the planning, implementation.

In Texas, we have the opportunity to support and educate children from a wide variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This webinar will discuss strengths-based strategies to honor children’s culture and to elevate the specific strengths of dual language learners. And, because every child we serve is also supported by a family, we will also discuss strategies to support the whole child by partnering with families from every cultural and linguistic background.

In 2019, NAEYC released their Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education position statement. This statement describes the vital role of creating equitable learning opportunities to support all children in reaching their full potential. Key to advancing equity is the embodiment of Anti-Bias Education.

In 2005, Dr. Tara J. Yasso coined the term “community cultural wealth.” Community cultural wealth is the shared knowledge, skills, experiences, behaviors, and values of people in a community that guide and influence their ways of being and knowing. Dr. Yosso says there are 6 types of cultural wealth: aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistance.