Renatta Marie Cooper, MA, currently serves as Education Coordinator for the Los Angeles County Office of Child Care. She is also a Pasadena Unified School District Board Member.
Ms. Cooper's expertise in early childhood development and education comes from a career in academic leadership, teaching, research and active participation in organizations related to Early Childhood Education. At Pasadena's Pacific Oaks College, she was founding director of the Jones/Prescott Institute-Hixon Center for Early Childhood Education. She has taught in ECE settings that included work with adolescent parents, abusive parents and their children, and migrant families. She has published and frequently presents on a wide range of topics, including "Play and the Acculturation Process" and "Cultural Sensitivity in Infant and Toddler Care."
Information Retrieved from: Walden University Website
Louise Derman-Sparks, Professor Emeritus, Pacific Oaks College, is the author and coauthor of several books, including Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children (National Association for the Education of Young Children); Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach (Teachers College Press); In Our Own Way: How Anti-Bias Work Shapes Our Lives and Future Vision, Current Work: Lessons from the Culturally Relevant Anti-Bias Education Leadership Project (Redleaf Press), and numerous articles and book chapters. Her most recent book, coauthored with Dr. Patricia Ramsey, is What If All the Kids Are White?: Anti-bias/ Multicultural Education with Young Children and Families (Teachers College Press).
Ms. Derman-Sparks speaks, conducts workshops, and consults widely throughout the United States and internationally. A former member of the Governing Board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (1998-2002), she currently serves on the National Board of Crossroads Ministry: An Interfaith & Community- Based Anti-Racism Training Organization and on the National Diversity Advisory Council of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Information Retrieved from: Walden University Website
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