Category |
Action Steps |
Site-Responsible Person or Committee |
1.Communicate harassment and bullying policies and procedures |
- Ensure that harassment policy and bullying legislation is listed in all handbooks (students, staff, parents), and the first newsletter sent to parents.
- Intentionally review the harassment policy, including policy updates as required by new legislation, and VSBA models, with all groups (students, staff, parents) at an early fall meeting.
- Recommend that all school entities—after-school programs, activity groups, clubs, athletic teams—intentionally review harassment/bullying legislation.
- As needed, make recommendations to District School Boards to revise harassment policy to meet federal statute as well as state statute.
- All schools will report data annually to District Equity Coordinator.
- Use YRBS & Asset Development data as well as school data to measure progress.
- Disseminate relevant articles/information to District staff members as appropriate.
- Disseminate brochures to parents on an ongoing basis.
- Develop a Diversity/Equity website and publicize to district staff.
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Principal, Director, Superintendent with follow-up and reminder from diversity committee. |
2. Anti-harassment, anti-bias curriculum |
- As they are considered, review new textbook purchases for bias.
[Disseminate to staff criteria for analyzing classroom materials for bias.]
- Continue to provide formal instruction in equity, diversity acceptance and anti-bias through site-specific programs.
- Continue to provide informal instruction in equity, diversity acceptance and anti-bias through natural integration into all curricula areas, as appropriate.
- Continue to integrate PRIDE curriculum across grade levels, giving feedback to Stuart Strothman and members of the Diversity/Equity Committee.
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Principal, Director, Superintendent with follow-up from diversity committee.
A sub-committee of the diversity committee has been formed to work on action steps. |
3. Training/professional development
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- The district will offer annual harassment/diversity or events for staff members, students, and parents.
- Each school site will offer annual and ongoing professional development pertaining to harassment, bullying, bias, and equity or diversity education for all staff members.
- Increase staff members’ awareness about how to incorporate anti-bias themes and multi-cultural education in all curriculum areas.
- Increase staff members’ awareness about the potential for their own inherent biases.
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Diversity committee will provide reminders about the need for ongoing training.
DEC sub-committee to help support action steps. |
4. Site-specific action plans |
- Each school will generate at least one specific annual goal to address issues of harassment, equity, diversity and bias included in School-based Action Plans.
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Diversity committee will send email in the spring as a reminder. |
5. A district Diversity/Equity Committee will be maintained |
- Each school and entities within the district [EEE, Special Education Programs, etc.] will send a representative to the District Diversity/Equity
- We will invite parents and members of the wider community to join this committee.
- The Diversity Equity Committee will meet once a month.
- Committee members will share and discuss articles/resources to enhance their committee work.
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Superintendent, principals, diversity committee members from each building. |
6. Projects and efforts in place within the school community to address equity, anti-racism, diversity |
- Encourage and support district-wide demonstrations of diversity.
- Implement one new District- or school-based initiative in 2008 or 2009. Examples may include the ‘Best Buddies’ project or Mix-It Up Day, among a variety of choices.
- Provide a multiculturalism bibliography in hard copy and online.
- Collaborate with Windham County agencies/coalitions to increase students’ awareness and participation in diversity activities.
- Support the No Bystander Movement [Youth Impact Windham County]
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Diversity committee to organize and/or support. |
