Use the questions in this activity to help plan for your conversation with a staff member about the attitudes or beliefs (about children, families, discipline, curriculum) that they are holding that are not aligned with your program's values on equity and inclusion. 

1. What is the belief that they are holding? How would you describe the belief?
    
2. What have you seen or heard that reflects this belief?
    
3. Why do you suspect they are holding this belief? Where do you think it came from?
    
4. What do you see as the negative impact on children or the unintended consequences of the staff member holding this belief?
    
5. What data could you gather or share to help them see the negative impact?
    
6. Are there any aspects of the program that foster this belief, or which don’t interrupt it? Are there messages coming from someone that affirms—or denies—this belief?
    
7. What could you do to support the staff memberto try something different? What could you say? What could you facilitate, demonstrate, share, show, offer or present?
    
8. What do you appreciate about the staff member? What are their strengths?
    
9. What are your next steps in order to have this conversation?
    

Adapted from Bright Morning (n.d). Coaching for Equity Tools.