Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Noble & UIC College Prep
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We build diverse teams because they perform better and get the best results for our students. We believe staff at all levels of the organization should reflect our students and communities. We bring others in and make people from all backgrounds feel included in all spaces to create a culture of value and belonging. We share ideas, input, and perspective, and we seek diverse voices and bring in traditionally excluded individuals and perspectives to arrive at the best decisions. We actively seek understanding to avoid assumption and bias in decision-making. We examine ourselves to ensure that our practices and beliefs lead to equitable outcomes for all.
We build diverse teams because they perform better and get the best results for our students. We believe staff at all levels of the organization should reflect our students and communities. We bring others in and make people from all backgrounds feel included in all spaces to create a culture of value and belonging. We share ideas, input, and perspective, and we seek diverse voices and bring in traditionally excluded individuals and perspectives to arrive at the best decisions. We actively seek understanding to avoid assumption and bias in decision-making. We examine ourselves to ensure that our practices and beliefs lead to equitable outcomes for all.
Introducing the DEI Task Force
Introducing the DEI Task Force
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The DEI Task Force is a non-hierarchical body recognizing that expertise and knowledge do not only exist for those in positions of power. It is a leadership body within UICCP that works in partnership with staff, students, and families to develop our school as an anti-racist and anti-bias organization. It is intended to be a space for folx to safely voice concerns about structural practices and to continue their own unlearning with guidance.
The DEI Task Force is a non-hierarchical body recognizing that expertise and knowledge do not only exist for those in positions of power. It is a leadership body within UICCP that works in partnership with staff, students, and families to develop our school as an anti-racist and anti-bias organization. It is intended to be a space for folx to safely voice concerns about structural practices and to continue their own unlearning with guidance.
As a body, the DEI Task Force intentionally seeks to reimagine and co-create an anti-bias, anti-racist school at UIC College Prep.
As a body, the DEI Task Force intentionally seeks to reimagine and co-create an anti-bias, anti-racist school at UIC College Prep.
Our Mission
Our Mission
We act with intentionality for the liberation of all, particularly our Black, Indigenous, Brown, People of Color, LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, and emergent bilingual students through transformational relationships, restorative justice, healing, and community. We create safe and sacred spaces where all students are seen and valued as their whole selves at all times. We refuse to equivocate on racial justice and abolish our school as we know it by eliminating conditions that marginalize our students. We do this by identifying and addressing all the ways that racism operates in our school community, including our mindsets, practices, and policies. We consistently self-assess, reflect, challenge, and eradicate racist and oppressive systems and manifestations of white supremacy within our daily life, classrooms, and school community. We hold one another accountable to changes today, rather than waiting for an elusive consensus.
We act with intentionality for the liberation of all, particularly our Black, Indigenous, Brown, People of Color, LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, and emergent bilingual students through transformational relationships, restorative justice, healing, and community. We create safe and sacred spaces where all students are seen and valued as their whole selves at all times. We refuse to equivocate on racial justice and abolish our school as we know it by eliminating conditions that marginalize our students. We do this by identifying and addressing all the ways that racism operates in our school community, including our mindsets, practices, and policies. We consistently self-assess, reflect, challenge, and eradicate racist and oppressive systems and manifestations of white supremacy within our daily life, classrooms, and school community. We hold one another accountable to changes today, rather than waiting for an elusive consensus.
Our Purpose
Our Purpose
As a DEI Task Force, we seek to actively confront the systemic, structural, and interpersonal racism that is a foundation of schooling in the history of the United States. The history of assimilation and white supremacy embedded within schooling significantly impacts our work within our classrooms, at UIC College Prep, and within the Noble Network. There is a need for an acknowledgement of past and current harm, including structural policies that silence or erase the viewpoints of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color staff, students, and families. We know that real and deep change requires reimagination and a commitment to liberation. In order to achieve change, we must interrogate our mindsets and practices and take action. The need for acknowledgement and change across all spaces at Noble and at UIC College Prep have necessitated our work.
As a DEI Task Force, we seek to actively confront the systemic, structural, and interpersonal racism that is a foundation of schooling in the history of the United States. The history of assimilation and white supremacy embedded within schooling significantly impacts our work within our classrooms, at UIC College Prep, and within the Noble Network. There is a need for an acknowledgement of past and current harm, including structural policies that silence or erase the viewpoints of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color staff, students, and families. We know that real and deep change requires reimagination and a commitment to liberation. In order to achieve change, we must interrogate our mindsets and practices and take action. The need for acknowledgement and change across all spaces at Noble and at UIC College Prep have necessitated our work.
Our Aim
Our Aim
As the DEI Task Force, we were formed to be change agents at UICCP. We seek to initiate and sustain long-term transformation in our Policies and Practices, Student Cultural and Classroom Experiences, and Staff Professional Development. We consult and we create. We offer recommendations and insist on anti-bias, anti-racist changes to mindsets, policies, and practices that have been and are currently harmful to our community, including staff, students, and families.
As the DEI Task Force, we were formed to be change agents at UICCP. We seek to initiate and sustain long-term transformation in our Policies and Practices, Student Cultural and Classroom Experiences, and Staff Professional Development. We consult and we create. We offer recommendations and insist on anti-bias, anti-racist changes to mindsets, policies, and practices that have been and are currently harmful to our community, including staff, students, and families.
The focus of the Task Force was not to share resources or to do research together, but instead to bring the diverse, worthy perspectives of staff into a concerted effort to make structural changes in our school with the aim of becoming a truly anti-bias, anti-racist (ABAR) organization. The DEI Task Force exists to examine, reflect, and enact change.
The focus of the Task Force was not to share resources or to do research together, but instead to bring the diverse, worthy perspectives of staff into a concerted effort to make structural changes in our school with the aim of becoming a truly anti-bias, anti-racist (ABAR) organization. The DEI Task Force exists to examine, reflect, and enact change.
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Have questions, concerns, or feedback for the DEI Task Force?
Have questions, concerns, or feedback for the DEI Task Force?