Friday Sessions
1:00 – 2:00 PM | ORANGE COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER
358 NAEYC Annual Business Meeting and Town Hall
Join NAEYC President Tonia Durden, Treasurer Nicole Woods, Chief Executive Officer Michelle Kang, Chief Operations and Finance Officer Nanette Lawson, and members of NAEYC’ s Governing Board as they reflect on the progress in the past year and share priorities for the year ahead.
NAEYC’ s vision: Each and every child thrives and learns in a society dedicated to ensuring all children reach their full potential.
NAEYC’ s mission: NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
NAEYC’ s 4 Strategic Priorities › High-Quality Early Childhood Education › The Profession
› Professional Membership, Leadership, and Innovation
› Organizational Excellence
W202 NAEYC Activities
1:00 – 2:30 PM | ORANGE COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER
FEATURED SESSION
359 How Other People Do It: Unlocking Our Implicit Biases Regarding Parenting Practices to Deepen Relations with Families
Explore parenting practices from cultures worldwide and which of these practices triggers implicit biases. Develop a deeper understanding of the“ why” behind various parenting practices and the diverse families entering your program. Learn strategies to build relationships with families while embracing cultural differences. All too often, implicit bias is at the root of issues for Black and Brown children and their families. The immediate assumptions that are made regarding intelligence or ability simply from initial impressions have a far-reaching negative effect.
In this presentation, I challenge participants to examine their implicit biases surrounding parenting practices. When educators, especially caregivers working with very young children, bring in their beliefs as the“ right” way to do something, it negates the cultural preferences or beliefs of the families they are working with. My goal is to have participants see color, see the unique differences between families’ parenting practices, and value these practices, especially when they differ from what the participants believe. Participants will leave this session with a greater understanding and respect for parenting practices that are widely accepted in other social settings so that participants can better understand and guide conversations with families from a different culture in the future.
Amanda Holliday-Bembridge, Doctor Teacher Mommy W109A All Children
Earn 0.2 CEUs for this session.
2025 NAEYC Annual Conference: In this Place, We Learn. For Every Child, We Lead.
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