We are wrapping up our Book Talk series with two books for June! First, on Tuesday, June 2nd, DEY National Advisor and ECEC advocate, Kisa Marx, joins us at 7 pm EDT to discuss her new book, We Are Who We're Waiting For: Transformative Change in Early Childhood Education.

Then, our final Book Talk will be on Wednesday, June 10th, at 7 pm EDT, with early childhood educator and researcher Alissa Mwenelupembe to discuss her book, Stories of Resistance: Learning from Black Women in Early Care and Education.

We are thrilled to offer our final two book talks in connection with the Black Lives Matter at School Year of Purpose June principle, Black Woman. Register for both of these amazing book talks today!

For our final Diversity is Not Divisive Resource, we are sharing our framework for Fostering Healthy Identity in Young Children: Affirming Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in the Early Years. We developed this framework to support early childhood educators, parents, caregivers, and advocates in fostering healthy racial, ethnic, and cultural identity in young children.

We encourage you to use this framework to incorporate guiding questions into daily interactions, model affirming language and behaviors, build empathy and understanding with the scenarios, integrate resources into your curriculum, and create inclusive spaces with visual and material representation. Be sure to watch this introductory webinar on the framework.

We've been sharing a children's book that aligns with the Black Lives Matter at School Year of Purpose guiding principle.

For May, the guiding principle is Black Villages. This principle states: "We support each other as extended families and villages that collectively care for one another, especially 'our' children. We make our spaces family-friendly and enable caregivers to fully participate with their children. We disrupt the narrow Western-prescribed nuclear family structure expectation. We recognize that family includes our chosen families. We believe that radical care belongs in the public sphere."

The book we recommend for teaching the Black Village Principle is How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter.

Our latest DEY Dialogue- Liberated Learning: a Podcast that Promotes Liberation and Play is available for you to watch here.

We invite you to read the first issue in a special volume of the Global Education Review, co-edited by DEY ED Denisha Jones and Helge Wasthmuth. Embracing ECEC Values to Navigate an Uncertain Future, Part I includes an editorial and four articles that examine play and children's agency as ECEC values and tools to resist neoliberal policies and ideologies that threaten our future.

Also, check out Denisha's new live series, "Embracing ECEC Values as Resistance." Each week, Denisha shares a professional ECEC value and explains how she embraces it as a form of resistance. This series is offered live on Denisha's Facebook page at 7 pm EDT. Two future lives will also stream to the DEY Facebook page. The June 3rd live will feature the DEY Linking High Quality to Child Development Advocacy Toolkit. And on June 17th, she will feature our Framework for Fostering Healthy Identity in the Early Years!