Early Learning Nation Magazine at NBCDI's Unleashing the Promise and Genius of Black Children and Families
When the National Black Child Development Institute convened its 2023 national conference in Charlotte, NC, in October, the gathering brought together a diverse community of educators, advocates, policymakers, parents and even children. They gathered to raise the visibility of the needs and strengths of Black children and families, to share culturally relevant research and practices, to celebrate successes and to strategize across their wide networks.
It was everything we hoped for as we set up our pop-up Early Learning Nation Studio and completed 24 interviews with the accomplished, passionate pros working to serve the conference’s theme: "Unleashing the Promise and Genius of Black Children and Families."
Topics ranged from mobilizing communities, inspiring Black children through art, building a national village network, empowering the adults in children’s lives, building Black mental wealth, the power of elders, and improving national childhood learning. Interviewees ranged in age from elders, teens and adolescents.
The Early Learning Nation Studio was founded in 2018 by Early Learning Nation magazine as a way to include more voices from the early learning field in real time.
The magazine creates journalism from, and for, the early learning field. Our journalists have unique access and insights to the challenges and successes of all-things-early-childhood, and we publish stories that support policymakers, researchers, scientists, advocates and families in creating equitable and groundbreaking work in their communities and lives.
With the shuttering of independent news providers over the last five years, and the loss of so many education and early childhood beats in the outlets that do remain, our communities are hungry for information—and connection.
Early Learning Nation magazine is meeting the moment.
Early Learning Nation is an initiative of the Bezos Family Foundation
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