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CONT929: Building Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive Perspectives in Early Learning Curriculum

  • This course will no longer be offered after Spring 2025

Course Schedule

Session Course Dates Application Deadline Document Deadline Payment Deadline
Summer 2027 Monday, June 28, 2027 – Friday, August 13, 2027 Sunday, June 20, 2027 at 4pm PT Tuesday, June 22, 2027 at 1pm PT Thursday, June 24, 2027 at 1pm PT
Deadline dates are subject to change.

Summer 2027

  • Course Dates: Monday, June 28, 2027 – Friday, August 13, 2027
  • Application Deadline: Sunday, June 20, 2027 at 4pm PT
  • Document Deadline: Tuesday, June 22, 2027 at 1pm PT
  • Payment Deadline: Thursday, June 24, 2027 at 1pm PT

Course Description

As an educator, you play a crucial role in establishing an early learning environment of tolerance and acceptance among young students. In this course, you will explore your personal biases through the lens of equity, diversity and inclusion while working to develop the critical thinking skills required in 21st-century teaching. In this course, you will be able to develop your pedagogy while building a toolbox of resources focusing on equitable, diverse and inclusive educational practices and skills. Your developing understanding of educational equity, diversity and inclusion will be applied in the course's culminating student case study task.

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What You Will Learn and Do

In this course you’ll have the opportunity to

  • unpack and explore your own understanding and biases around equity, diversity and inclusion
  • set a culturally responsive intention to shift and develop your education practice and pedagogy
  • recognize new ways in which you might include equitable, diverse and inclusive practice in your teaching
  • understand the importance of First Peoples Principles of Learning being intentionally woven into school and classroom practice and pedagogy
  • generate a wider variety of essential supports that can be applied in classroom settings to create an environment of equity, diversity and inclusion
  • explore how play is used as a tool to ensure the K-3 Early Learning Framework is equitable and accessible to all learners
  • apply an inquiry-based lens to broaden the accessibility of content in your K-3 classroom

Course Outline

Each module includes a variety of resources, such as articles, videos, websites, podcasts and other media, as well as discussion posts, reflective tasks, collaborative tasks, culminating tasks, and assignments.

ModulesMinimum hours
Module 1: Foundational Understandings 10
Module 2: Culturally Responsive Planning and Teaching
Progress Update 1		 15.5
Module 3: Play as the Equalizer 15
Module 4: Applying First Peoples Principles of Learning and Early Learning Framework
Formative Assessment		 16.5
Module 5: Building Equitable Academic Opportunities
Progress Update 2		 10.5
Module 6: Applying Integrated Essential Supports 16
Module 7: Pulling Your Learning Together
Summative Assessment		 16.5
Total hours 100

Application Requirements

Courses and Post-Graduate Certificates are approved by TQS for Category Upgrade. If you would like these courses to be used towards Category Upgrading, you must have a valid BC Teacher Certificate.

ECEs, EAs, and other education professionals are welcome to take the courses without Certification.

Course Materials

There are no additional resources required for this course.

Accommodations

Applicants who require accommodations for a specific learning need (e.g., learning disability) within their AQ/ABQ course, should click here for further information and support.

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Refund Schedule

  • If you drop a course by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee
  • If you drop a course after the midpoint, before the end of the course, you will receive 50% of your course fee
Session 100% Refund Deadline 50% Refund Deadline

  Starting Late Summer 2026 Session

Our refund policies are changing starting with the Late Summer 2026 Session (Monday, August 10, 2026). See the new schedule below.
  • If you drop a course before the course begins: 100% refund
  • If you drop a course on or before the 14th day of the course: 75% refund
  • If you drop a course after the 14th day of the course: No refund
Session Course Dates 75% Refund Cut Off Date
Fall 2026Monday, September 28, 2026 – Friday, December 4, 2026October 11, 2026
Fall/Winter 2026Monday, November 9, 2026 – Friday, February 5, 2027November 22, 2026
Winter 2027Monday, January 25, 2027 – Friday, April 2, 2027February 07, 2027
Late Winter 2027Monday, February 15, 2027 – Friday, April 16, 2027February 28, 2027
Spring 2027Monday, April 5, 2027 – Friday, June 4, 2027April 18, 2027
Late Spring 2027Monday, May 3, 2027 – Friday, June 25, 2027May 16, 2027
Summer 2027Monday, June 28, 2027 – Friday, August 13, 2027July 11, 2027

For more about our refund policies, visit our Fees & Refunds page.