Module Four: CQI and the Role of Cultural and Bias Awareness

Learning Objectives:

• Explain continuous quality improvement (CQI) and how it applies to our ongoing work as coaches.

• Describe how cultural identity influences cultural biases

• Explain how your own cultural identity, perspectives, and biases impact coaching interactions. 

• Define cultural humility and responsiveness and its importance to coaching. 

• Evaluate how cultural humility and cultural responsiveness might impact growth for you and your coach partner.

Module Resources:

These resources are needed before or used for the Module 4 session.

• Getting to Know You

• Initial Planning Conference

• Early Childhood Professional Coaching agreement

• Recording Confidentiality Agreement

• Lenses of Cultural Activity 

• Dr. Joe Gallagher, “FNHA CEO Joe Gallagher on Cultural Humility

• The Culture Tree

• Chimamanda Adichie, “Danger of a Single Story"

• Your brain is wired for negative thoughts. Here’s how to change it

Additional Module Resources:

• Encouraging Reflections

• Professional Development Information System (PDIS)

• International Coach Federation (ICF)

• Harvard Implicit Association Test

• National Association for the Education of Young Children Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education Position Statement 

• We’re All in This Together: The Parallel Process and What It Means in the Field of Home Visiting

• “Moving from the Mainstream to the Margins: Lessons in Culture and Power” 

• US Department of Education  Unpacking Biases: Developing Cultural Humility in Early Childhood and Elementary Teacher Candidates 

• “Your brain on culture: The burgeoning field of cultural neuroscience is finding that culture influences brain development, and perhaps vice versa.” 

• Cultural Competence or Cultural Humility? Moving Beyond the Debate Ella Greene-Moton, Meredith Minkler

• Supporting Professionals Who Support Families: The Parallel Process | ECLKC

• Taking Steps to Strengthen Relationships and Support Parents

• A Consultation Approach to Target Exclusionary Discipline of Students of Color in Early Childhood Education

• Implicit Bias in School Discipline Decisions: Strategies for Enhancing Equity, Kent McIntosh, University of Oregon

• Education not Incarceration: A Conceptual Model for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in School Discipline

• Vulnerable Decision Points for Disproportionate Office Discipline Referrals: Comparisons of Discipline for African American and White Elementary School Students

• Shawn Achor, “The happy secret to better work" Ted Talk  

• How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias | Valerie Alexander | TEDx Pasadena 

• The New York Times, “Check Our Bias to Wreck Our Bias” by Saleem Reshamwala (3 min video)

• 2023 Motivational Video: Reframe Your Perspective and Improve Your Life 

• Reframe Your Thoughts

• Significance of Ethics Video

Competencies

• Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Professionals

• Colorado Competencies for Early Childhood Coaches