Professional Development/Training

“Train and empower educators (all of our employees) to dismantle patterns of racism and injustice in schools and communities” (Center for Racial Justice in Education). Develop an anti-racist staff development program for teachers that can be implemented within the context of the reality of teachers' lives and working conditions. “Such a curriculum can provide an avenue of opportunity for sensitizing teachers to the racial constructions of reality in their own lives, in school settings, curricula, teacher-student interactions and the like, and can provide teachers with a framework for teaching against racism.” (Anti-racist staff development for teachers: Considerations of race, class, and gender)

"Anti-racist teachers take black students seriously. They create a curriculum with black students in mind, and they carefully read students’ work to understand what they are expressing…It requires educators to view the success of black students as central to the success of their own teaching." (What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently)

Curriculum and Instruction

The Curriculum and Instruction committee will define anti-racist curriculum and instruction, and review and advance our curriculum, resources, goals, and objectives as they relate to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. “Anti-racist teaching addresses racism directly and focuses on the cognitive aspects. Anti-racist teaching confronts prejudice through the discussion of past and present racism, stereotyping and discrimination in society. It teaches the economic, structural and historical roots of inequality…The objectives of anti-racist education are to confront the institutional racism within the very structure of the educational system... this means creating a climate in the classroom where... the historical and current reasons for the continued unequal social status of different groups can be explored” (Multicultural Education vs Anti-Racist Education: The Debate in Canada)