Brian L. WrightAfrican-AmericanCreating Equitable Classroom EnvironmentsThe decision to pivot to remote learning brought its own set of challenges for countless children and families across diverse communities. Foremost, were the ongoing efforts to create, establish, and maintain a caring and equitable classroom environment with actively engaged children and their families.April 22, 2021African-AmericanYou Matter: Essential Home Daycare Professionals During the COVID-19 PandemicAs a former early childhood teacher and current associate professor of early childhood education, I am concerned, to put it mildly, about essential education professionals being overlooked or discounted in discussions and policies for P-12 teachers and brick and mortar schools. There are thousands of families depending on home daycare providers to teach and care for their children. I suspect the need has increased since this health pandemic, and those in dire need are families who live in poverty and the working poor, a disproportionate percentage of whom are Black and Latinx.May 7, 2020Page 1 of 1