Supporting HBCC Educators Whose Primary Language is Other than English: Moving Towards Language Justice
June 21 2022
3:00 PM EDT
Each webinar in this series is based on BUILD's home-based child care (HBCC) core concepts and how HBCC meets a critical need for families; the need to build a lasting infrastructure through systemic supports for HBCC; and networks as the strategy to develop this lasting infrastructure.
In this interactive session, we will discuss efforts to establish and embed language justice in supports for home-based child care educators, explore challenges in the quest for language justice and strategies being implemented in your communities, and review the strategies this series has presented.
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Advocating for Early Intervention Our Passion, Our Future
Archived Webinar April 12, 2024
Parents, advocates, early interventionists, and their partners in four very different states will share their experiences to discuss how they formed new partnerships to strengthen Early Intervention and their struggles and solutions. Key themes including equitable access, adequate funding, workforce recruitment/retention, and family voice in decision-making will be highlighted.
Reducing Disparities for Latino Children and Families: A National Latino Infant Policy Agenda Provides Solutions
Blog April 10, 2024
BUILD believes that to effectively meet the needs of young children and their families, we must recognize existing disparities, including opportunity and achievement gaps. Therefore, we see the urgent need to support policy solutions to better serve Latino infants, toddlers, and families.
Operationalizing High-Quality Dual Language Programming: From the Early Years to the Early Grades
Report April 9, 2024
The aim of this brief, from Children's Equity Project and The Century Foundation, is to operationalize what high quality dual language immersion looks like for infants/toddlers, preschoolers, and students in Kindergarten through second grade. The brief provides an overview important context and core concepts foundational for this work, including a description of emergent bilinguals in the United States, a strength-based approaches to bilingualism, a historical account of bilingual education, and a description of how DLI education is part of a broader, equitable child serving system.