DEIIP PRIORITIES

In defining the priorities below, we are recognizing that certain projects areas will have a longer timeline than others. 

IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES - 2022-2023 

"Immediate priorities" include initiatives we expect to begin putting into practice in the current academic year. 

• Develop written policies, define practices, and provide faculty and staff professional development to support both genderfluid and transgender students and adults.
  AREA: SYSTEMS, POLICIES & PRACTICES
• Define the School’s commitment to inclusive pronoun use and modify and amend communications to reflect.
  AREA: SYSTEMS, POLICIES & PRACTICES 
• Provide safe, developmentally appropriate, facilitated alliance/affinity spaces for students of varied identities - particularly for those in historically underrepresented and marginalized groups in the Lower Division. Support all students in exploring all intersecting aspects of identity, especially their racial identity development.
  AREA: CURRICULUM & PROGRAM
• Analyze student and school data in aggregate and disaggregated by race, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, family structure, and socioeconomic status to track and measure student access and outcomes to ensure The Park School Mission is accessible to all students.
  AREA: SYSTEMS, POLICIES & PRACTICES 

RISING PRIORITIES

"Rising priorities" are initiatives already under consideration, and have a longer implementation horizon. 

•  Develop, in partnership with The Park School Parents' Association, an education series for parents and guardians on relevant topics and themes of diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism to bolster family discourse with their children.
  AREA: COMMUNITY & CULTURE 

• Utilize student data at the school-wide, divisional, and grade levels to inform professional development, curricular choices, and instructional practice.
  AREA: CLASSROOM & INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE 

• Engage all School Leadership — Administrative Team, Department Heads, and Programmatic Leadership — in ongoing education and support around equity, inclusion, and anti-racism to facilitate the development of a DEI lens for institutional leadership and to support equitable decision making.
  AREA: GOVERNANCE & LEADERSHIP

• Evaluate and improve overall communication policies and procedures to inform, engage, and educate our families more effectively, increase transparency and accountability.
  AREA: SYSTEMS, POLICIES & PRACTICES 

• Seek, with education and support, to create inclusive classroom practices for the safety and belonging of all students.
  AREA: CLASSROOM & INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE

• Create forums and opportunities for all members of the community — students, parents, faculty/staff, and alumni — to engage in discussions about their experiences at Park, with a focus on amplifying the voices of marginalized people. Create action plans to address the concerns.
  AREA: COMMUNITY & CULTURE 

• Articulate the commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion of the School in all recruitment and onboarding events for new families, including but not limited to published materials, interviews, tours, new parent events, and annual back-to-school evenings.
  AREA: SYSTEMS, POLICIES & PRACTICES 

• Review, refine, and renew the Philosophy of Multicultural Education and Diversity Beliefs and Aspirations statements.
  AREA: CURRICULUM & PROGRAM 

• Define bullying, harassment, microaggressions, and hate speech and create an institutional channel for reporting offenses for students, parents, and guardians, and faculty and staff. Clearly outline a set of responses for such events and demonstrate accountability and transparency regarding action steps.
  AREA: SYSTEMS, POLICIES & PRACTICES                          

FUTURE PRIORITIES

• Conduct an extensive and thorough review of ALL curriculum at each grade level and redesign as needed to advance the anti-racist mission of the School. Create an aligned SEL and racial and social justice education scope and sequence across all grade levels.
  AREA: CURRICULUM & PROGRAM 
• Invest in professional development and instructional goal setting focused on differentiation in the classroom to create a supportive and effective heterogeneous learning environment.
  AREA: CLASSROOM & INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE
• Create a school culture that openly confronts discord and works through conflict by embracing and building the cross-cultural competencies of all members of the community and emphasizing restorative justice as an approach to collective learning.
  AREA: COMMUNITY & CULTURE