Elevating Equity:: Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs

Elevating Equity
Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs
​Angela Searcy, EdD

Elevating equity requires educators to be mindful of how to include children, families, and colleagues in all parts of early childhood programming. Elevating equity is all about creating systems that celebrate everyone! Sounds great-but how do you do it?

Elevating Equity: Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs takes a positive approach by embracing differences and meeting readers where they are.

- Get nonjudgmental, practical advice from an experienced trainer and educator.
- Find out how to have healthy, respectful, and productive conversations about what equity means and how it looks in practice.
- Discover strength-based, evidencegrounded techniques that lead to professional growth and learning in your early childhood program.

With practical examples, research, tips, advice, self-reflections, and real stories--shared with Angela Searcy's warm humor--you'll discover how to find common ground and truly elevate educational access for the children and families you serve.


About the Author
Barbara Sorrels, EdD, is a child-development specialist, educator, and consultant with a heart for "children from hard places." She is the founder and CEO of Connected Kids, an organization providing training and consultation in trauma-responsive practices to school districts, schools, child-care centers, Head Start programs, churches, therapists, and community agencies. Dr. Sorrels spent more than 20 years as a classroom teacher, a founder and director of early childhood centers, and a professor in the early childhood education program at Oklahoma State University.