- Build upon systems and processes to increase the access and offerings of advanced programs for historically underrepresented students.
- Use racially disaggregated data to inform all district decision-making and instruction and to identify the barriers that prevent students of color and students from low-income families from enrolling in advanced courses and take action.
- Evaluate the current process used for screening students for advanced level classes and implement changes if needed.
- Examine representation in advanced coursework, including AP, dual enrollment, academies, gifted and talented programs, and eighth grade algebra.
- Collect information to diagnose the various barriers that different groups of students face to accessing and succeeding in advanced coursework.
- Increase and improve social-emotional support for all students.
- Administrators will examine individual student progress data through a lens of equity.
- Involve students in important initiatives and programs related to culture and climate.
- Provide professional learning to staff to eliminate the deficit-thinking lens.
- Increase foster youth, homeless, and student with disabilities supports.
- Implement restorative practice strategies such as classroom meetings, community circles and other social justice strategies to eliminate disproportionality in discipline data.
- Provide Professional learning to teachers in effective and rigorous instructional strategies to support all students’ standards mastery.
- Enhancing access to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities.
- Conduct curriculum audit to determine evidence of bias and/or the lack of inclusion in the standards-aligned instructional materials and determine if the materials reflect the race, culture or ethnicity of our student groups.
- Provide equitable opportunity and access to eliminate disproportionate representation of students of color in specialized education programs.
- Improve teacher to student relationships in order to foster student interest in curricular and extracurricular activities.
- Implement and train all staff on the components of the D158 Equity Framework.
- Incorporate the concept of Equity in all professional learning and development, and in the development of all initiatives to utilize the Equity lens and D158 Framework as the foundation of all district work.
- Develop a mentorship program for people of color to create a pipeline into leadership positions in D158.
- Continue to recruit and hire diverse staff for leadership roles.
- Engage in honest conversation with staff, parents and community members about concerns and issues that impact our diverse population.
- Establish a protocol for recruiting and sustaining representation of parents of color as members of the school board, and district committees.
- Develop an equity focused evaluation process of all administrators.
- Develop new partnerships and maintain and strengthen current partnerships with culturally diverse institutions, including colleges, organizations and churches with a focus on conducting targeted recruiting and hiring initiatives for potential candidates that will diversify our staff.
- Identify and initiate alternative recruitment strategies to target diverse candidates.
- Establish procedures for district‐wide diversity orientation for all building leaders and interview committees. This includes developing a consistent process for screening and interviewing job candidates that includes questions and scenarios relating to diversity and equity.
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