Kindness is Justice: Teaching Equity and Accurate History to Children with Naomi O'Brien

In this episode, join Kaitlin as she is joined by educator, author, content creator, and founder of Read Like a Rock Star - Naomi O'Brien! Together they dive into a powerful conversation about how kindness intertwines with justice, diversity, and accurate history in education. Explore the importance of teaching children through an anti-racist/ anti-bias lens, celebrating diversity, and fostering critical thinking skills from a young age. Follow Naomi at https://readlikearockstarteaching.com/ and @readlikearockstarteaching on Instagram Full transcript Quotes "Different doesn't mean less. It's beautiful. It's so cool. Everything would be boring if it was all the same..." "So they're forced to learn about it because they're living it... we can have other kids learn about it so that they don't." "When you have those conversations, maybe the first few might be hard and they might have some really big feelings. But then when you're just adding to it... it's like okay and you're just building their background knowledge." "We owe it to kids to give them that full picture and allow them to make their own decisions... when we don't give them the full picture they can't make informed decisions." "It allows for critical thinking... I say all the time that please people stop saying that we're leading down the road and the path of fascism like it is alive and please please..." "Being nice is just going along to getting along but being kind is doing things even if it may feel uncomfortable to get to the right result and to do what's fair..." Follow Kind Cotton on Instagramwww.kindcotton.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/oar82190/support