Blog: What I Have Learned
My hope when working with children and families who come from diverse families is to ensure educators and professionals are culturally and linguistically diverse. I would hope that educators and staff will respect all children and their families by catering to all the children and family’s individual needs such as: Implementing primary language, ethnic backgrounds, religion, disability, culture, and sex. Accept and respect diversity when working with children and their families. Everyone should be respected and feel welcomed when working with diverse families.
One goal I would like to set for the early childhood field relating to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice would be to achieve cultural competence. This would help educators and staff to appreciate the families, but to increase the quality and effectiveness of all diverse backgrounds.
I would also like to thank all my colleagues for broadening my views on diversity. I have learned so much from each of you, and I appreciate all the positive feedback I received from discussions and blog assignments. Best of luck in your educational path.
Stacy D. Almendarez 
Stacy it was great to have you as my colleague. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and views on diversity and how we ourselves as anti-bias educators can become better professionals, and continue I wish you all the best for the future and success in your educational endeavors.
Nadine
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Hello Stacy,
Great Post, I like your goal for cultural competences.To me, becoming culturally competence is about developing interpersonal awareness and sensitives to understand cultural knowledge which better serve all-inclusive, anti-bias classrooms/environments for children and families within diverse communities. I think to becoming a more proactive educator, we must respect and accept all of those people who are in our care from day to day so that, they can reach their future potentials.
Thank for your wonderful support and encouragement along the interested 8 weeks journey.
Ms. Mary
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Stacy, I loved your post. I love that you mentioned the need for educators to be linguistically diverse. I personally believe that when teachers choose to expand their language, they are doing themselves a favor, as well as those that they serve. We can talk about the importance of diversity but until we actually take the steps to be diverse in all ways, our words will fall on deaf ears. I have enjoyed reading your posts in this class. Hopefully we will run into each other in the future. I wish you all the best.
Alvia
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