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Police Free In ECE Summer Workshop: Abolition Practices in Our Families, Communities, and Nation.
Police Free In ECE is a group of early childhood educators, students, leaders, administrators, consultants, and parents who meet monthly for support, accountability, and resources for our abolitionist work in the early childhood education field. Ijumaa supports this group of educators with monthly discussions, holds space for organizing and collaboration, and offers specific tools and resources. We gather specifically to challenge the dominant narratives about policing, institute restorative justice practices, and examine how power is used in our classrooms. Please join us to make ECE police-free.
Our commitment to progressive education and our anti-bias/anti-racism values call us to address and eliminate the preschool to prison nexus, punitive classroom “rules,” harmful discipline practices, punishments, adults using their power over children within our families, ECE programs, and communities.
This workshop was created out of our current work of “Police Free In ECE” and provides critical collective practice; consequential inquiry into policing and justice, and connecting our work to the current abolition movement. During the session we will:
Explore what is abolition in Early Childhood Care and Education;
Reflect on current educators’ and parents' abolition work with children. Centering Love, Joy, and Care in our abolition practices;
Reflect on our own experiences with policing and punishment in our lives and work with young children;
Use restorative justice principles and anti-racism strategies to implement conflict resolution models to create more equitable ways to resolve conflicts;
Plan how to integrate our learning into our current policies and practices.
Join Ijumaa and the Police Free In ECE Community for this engaging session, for all early childhood educators, leaders, parents, family members, community activists, anyone who is a part of young children's lives and wants to create a just and equitable society.
Registration fee: $25
Contact: ijumaa@ijumaajordan.com
Police Free In ECE is a group of early childhood educators, students, leaders, administrators, consultants, and parents who meet monthly for support, accountability, and resources for our abolitionist work in the early childhood education field. Ijumaa supports this group of educators with monthly discussions, holds space for organizing and collaboration, and offers specific tools and resources. We gather specifically to challenge the dominant narratives about policing, institute restorative justice practices, and examine how power is used in our classrooms. Please join us to make ECE police-free.
Our commitment to progressive education and our anti-bias/anti-racism values call us to address and eliminate the preschool to prison nexus, punitive classroom “rules,” harmful discipline practices, punishments, adults using their power over children within our families, ECE programs, and communities.
This workshop was created out of our current work of “Police Free In ECE” and provides critical collective practice; consequential inquiry into policing and justice, and connecting our work to the current abolition movement. During the session we will:
Explore what is abolition in Early Childhood Care and Education;
Reflect on current educators’ and parents' abolition work with children. Centering Love, Joy, and Care in our abolition practices;
Reflect on our own experiences with policing and punishment in our lives and work with young children;
Use restorative justice principles and anti-racism strategies to implement conflict resolution models to create more equitable ways to resolve conflicts;
Plan how to integrate our learning into our current policies and practices.
Join Ijumaa and the Police Free In ECE Community for this engaging session, for all early childhood educators, leaders, parents, family members, community activists, anyone who is a part of young children's lives and wants to create a just and equitable society.
Registration fee: $25
Contact: ijumaa@ijumaajordan.com