Inclusive Classroom
Teachers are working to create an inclusive environment in each classroom through incorporation of diverse books and manipulatives. At the beginning of the school-year, teachers did an initial survey of their classrooms through a DEI lens to see where resources where lacking and then ordered a variety of classroom supplies for children to interact with that represent various aspects of identity.

Division- and Developmentally Targeted Professional Development
By age-level teams, teachers are meeting every month to engage with a resource from Learning for Justice called Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance in Preschool and the Early Grades. The resource correctly points out that our goal is “helping children become kind and caring participants in a world that includes everyone.” Teachers first meet to discuss shared understandings and then work as a team to choose two to three ways implement practices into their curriculum. They then engage in a process of implementing the practices, observing the children’s responses, reflecting together on the process, and then planning a way to share this information out with families.

DEI Resources