Goal #1: Identity
Nurture your child’s construction of knowledgeable and confident personal and social identities.
Your child will demonstrate
- self-awareness
- confidence
- family pride
- positive social identities
Nurture your child’s construction of knowledgeable and confident personal and social identities.
Your child will demonstrate
Promote your child’s comfortable, empathetic interaction with people from diverse backgrounds.
Your child will express
Foster your child’s capacity to identify bias and his/her/their empathy for the hurt bias causes.
Your child will increasingly:
Cultivate your child’s ability and confidence to stand up for self and for others in the face of bias.
Your child will demonstrate:
These goals are adapted from The Four Core Goals of Anti-bias Education, Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, Second Edition, National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 2020, written by Louise Derman-Sparks & Julie Olsen Edwards with Catherine M. Goins.
Kansas City Parade of Hearts
Dennis Stanton, artist
Our mission is to encourage families to rethink race and the role it plays in our segregated region. Using children’s literature, featuring diverse characters, we will support families with young children (birth-9) to start and strengthen early conversations about race and diversity.
Starting with Stories respects persons from all faith traditions, as well as those who do not have a religious affiliation. We are grateful to religious organizations that generously offer Starting with Stories a venue and support for our work, but we remain—always and in all spaces—open to a diversity of beliefs.
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Starting with Stories is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization registered in the state of Kansas. All donations are tax-deductible.