Young children see color, hear about race, and observe how grown-ups struggle to explain what the news in the United States. If we do not start the conversation early, children will make up their own stories.
Anti-racism education with young kids doesn’t need to be complicated. If you keep it to something as simple as knowing more than a ‘single story’, you help eliminate biases from the beginning naturally. Learning more stories feeds a child’s curiosity, empathy, and openness to others.
We believe that anti-racism should be part of everything you do at school, every day. As part of the Teachers Pay Teachers Social Justice project, educator Phoebe Mihael developed lessons to use One Globe Kids to get started: Stories for Change: K-2 anti-racism unit with One Globe Kids. The more stories you know, the more friends you can make!