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California Kindergarten Association.

Rockin' Kindergarten for over 30 years!

Black Lives Matter

The mission of the California Kindergarten Association is to foster children’s early learning and development by promoting best practices and professionalism in teaching and advocating for high quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood education. In order to achieve this mission, we must be actively anti-racist. We know that teachers are essential workers in the fight against racism, and we believe that early childhood educators are the first line of defense. 

We, as leaders in the early childhood education field, want to clearly state that we stand with Black Lives Matter. To our members, colleagues, friends, students, brothers and sisters who identify as Black, we want you to know that we stand with you in the fight against institutionalized racism. We believe that Black lives matter; they matter today, they mattered yesterday and they will matter tomorrow. 

We know that representation matters, especially to those that are underrepresented. When we are taking on new board members, we actively search out leaders in our field who are dedicated to our mission, which includes social justice and anti-racism education. We know that an organization is only as strong as its leadership and we are dedicated to having a diverse board of dynamic leaders in the field of early childhood education. For our yearly conference, we aim to uplift underrepresented voices. We realize that our speaker lineup in the past hasn’t been as diverse as it could be and that we should have been more aware of the power of representation. We are working to know better and be better. This year, even if we have to hold a virtual conference instead of a live one, we are working on hiring speakers from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. 

We are constantly looking to feature new speakers. We always listen to suggestions for speakers from our members and followers. We would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for dynamic early childhood educators who are POC, so we can reach out to them and discuss presenting. Please email cka@ckanet.org with any speaker suggestions you may have. 

We are aware of the inequities that result from institutionally racist policies and practices in the schools and the communities in which our members teach. We pledge to take actions that will create change on all levels. We will do this by: 

  • supporting bills and laws meant to create a more just system and especially ones that address equality and equity in the education realm
  • by uplifting underrepresented voices, specifically by searching out speakers from diverse backgrounds
  • by offering presentations and trainings for teachers to elicit positive change within their own classrooms
  • and by sharing information on combating the implicit bias that exists within everyone

If you’d like to learn more about BLM and equity in the classroom, please take a look at the following links: 

NEA – Black Lives Matter in Schools (Resources) 

Black Lives Matter at School Starter Kit 

Creating Space to Talk about Race in Your School 

DC Area Educators for Social Justice – Early Childhood and Elementary Resources

Teaching Tolerance – Let’s Talk! Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics With Students

We stand with our members of color and we stand with the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Thank you,

The CKA Board of Directors 

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Join us this coming Tuesday, January 26! Our chat Join us this coming Tuesday, January 26!  Our chat topic:  What's working in your curriculum? Bring your successes to share!  Leave with some new ideas!  We hope you can join us.

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Welcome to all our new #CKATeachers! We wanted to Welcome to all our new #CKATeachers! We wanted to share a little about us. 

We are a nonprofit who support educators throughout California and beyond promoting best practices for #earlyeducation.

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@halpey1 inspires us to not only share the pen wit @halpey1 inspires us to not only share the pen with our students; #InteractiveWriting lesson. 

More importantly, he shows us that our students can have deep conversation and think critically.
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We hope you’ll join us next January for #CKC2022.
It’s finally here! #CKC2021! Thank you to our It’s finally here!
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Thank you to our amazing staff, Conference Committee, and presenters for making it happen.
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Welcome to all our new #ckateachers! We wanted to share a little more about us. We are a nonprofit that supports educators throughout California and beyond promoting best practices for #earlyeducation.
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Look At My Happy Rainbow (Matt Halpern) not only inspires us to share the pen with our students, more importantly, he shows us that students can have deep conversations and think critically. #interactivewritinglesson

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Thank you for joining us at our first-ever virtual CKC! #ckc2021 was a HUGE success, thanks to your support!
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