For educators it is important to be able to hear and understand family concerns through the family point-of-view. To do this you need first to build a relationship with the family that takes deep active listening.

This is the explanation of how going up the Ladder of Anti-Bias Goals to the treehouse of Peaceful Environments can help shift thinking to include the dynamic of power in our work for social justice.

I was now calling up memories of my childhood as a young ballet dancer; feeling the sadness, frustration, fear, and self doubt that came from looking at the other little girls, comparing my body with theirs, and measuring myself as not good enough.