Education/Title IX

Encouraging diversity & inclusion

• Proposing updated training to new/ current faculty & staff

• Highlighting ways to improve the demographic of guidance counselors

• Emphasizing the importance of hiring counselor/therapist/social workers who are people of color 

Offering ways to revise the RCSD New Teacher/Mentor Academy

Suggesting revisions to the Professional Development Plan

Rethinking Hiring, Recruitment, and Retention

• Train those involved in hiring process in learning about stereotype threat, implicit bias, and culturally sensitive ways to search for and engage candidates

• Strive for gender and race balance among employees in academic departments and in positions of leadership

• Conduct periodic focus groups, in addition to confidential surveys, with ALL employees to assess the kinds of support needed to improve retention

Brainstorming way to improve disciplinary ​procedures such as the following

• Current ineffective policies and procedures & potential success in implementing a restorative justice model

• Current Code of Conduct handbook, dress code, lateness policy, detentions, etc. to ensure  diversity and inclusivity are considered

Enhancing College Counseling

• Finding ways to improve the counseling process and experience, particularly for first-generation college students and students of color

Working to transform curriculum credits, such as

• Adding .5 credit for diversity education in graduation requirements

• Using Honors, APs, summer assignments & extra credit as an opportunity to integrate diversity & inclusion curriculum (texts, films, art, etc.)