Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Classrooms - A Practical Guide Book

By offering practical steps for adults who work with young children to build inclusive and intentional spaces where all children receive positive messages about their unique gender selves, this book increases awareness about gender diversity in learning environments such as child care centres, family child care homes and preschools.

"As Headstart once taught us the importance of early intervention, so do the authors of Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Classrooms brilliantly alert us to early childhood educators proactively leading the way toward gender acceptance, gender agency, and gender literacy among our very youngest citizens. With the added gift of words of both early childhood educators and the children themselves, this must-read book guides us through the exercises and partnerships between children, families, and educators guaranteed to build a better world for people of all genders."
Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., Director of Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Gender Center, University of California San Francisco Author of The Gender Creative Child and Gender Born, Gender Made

"This book is welcoming and meets you were you are with the ultimate goal to "provide you with support and direction for making your early childhood environment a space where all children feel safe, seen, and respected for who they are. There is a joyfulness and a practicality to this book that makes it both a thought provoking and also a pleasure to read. If the very thought of this book makes you uncomfortable read it anyway the authors made space for you in this book to learn and grow."
Ijumaa Jordan, MA - Lead Consultant at Ijumaa Jordan Consulting, social justice advocate, adjunct instructor

"A book like this, in the hands of educators who are already committed to the authentic development of their students, will make a profoundly positive difference in the lives of trans and gender expansive children-but also, for the holistic social development of every student. As someone who had to blaze a trail in the absence of such practical and powerful concepts as gender justice, I hope this text becomes required reading for every teacher so that every child may have supportive guides as they become whole people in the classroom, and go out into the world."
Scott Turner Schofield, Educator, Consultant, Coach, www.SpeakingOfTransgender.com