Equitable and Inclusive Schools

Please identify your school.  Briefly share your experience in completing the Religious Responsibilities discussion with your entire staff and faculty.  What worked with your discussion and what would you do differently?  Have you planned any followup discussions?

Please identify your school. Share a piece of your discussion and next steps. Identify anything you need from Central Office leadership to be ready to present to your school on religious sensitivity.

Use this space to reflect on the learning from the school’s perspective.  What elements of the cycle of prejudice are you aware of?  What actions can be taken to break the cycle?

Team Assignment:

• Meet with your entire team to reflect on new learning.
• Make one new post on the blog based on your team discussion.  (click on “comment” for initial post)
• Respond to at least one post from another team. (click on “reply” for response)
• Complete the parent engagement audit with the team and others from the school.
• By June 15th, identify an area of focus, based on conversations around the two audits and add a comment to the post titled Focus Area.
• Begin considering ways to have these conversations with your entire faculty.  Note resources available in SchoolSpace.

Think about the conversations you have had around the two audits.  Please add one comment that addresses following questions and identifies the area of focus for your school.

-How did the team arrive on the Focus Area for the school?
-What data point from the audits were considered in identifying the Focus Area?
-What is the base line data point that needs improving?
-What percentage of improvement is desired through the action plans in the CSIP?
-How can the whole school become involved in improving this data point?

No replies necessary.  This information will be used as we plan for the summer conference.

Use this space to reflect on the learning from the school’s perspective.  What mirrors do you have in your school that help your students feel a sense of belonging?  What mirrors do you need to consider adding?

Team Assignment:

• Make one new post on the blog based on your team discussion.  (click on “comment” for initial post)
• Respond to at least one post from another team. (click on “reply” for response)
• Complete the first equity audit.  Click here to download equity audit part 1 document.