Goal:  The Special Education Department will develop an inclusion guide for general education teachers.

Status: In Progress

Goal: The Special Education Department will develop a presentation for the February Institute Day on Strategies to Support All Learners. Teams from the Special Education department presented this information to all the departments in the school.

Status: Complete 

Goal: Explore the toolkits for Latinx/Hispanic Month, LGBTQ Month, and Indigenous People Month on the Canvas page in small groups.

• Each group is assigned a different month to explore 
• In what ways might you make a curricular connection to the information in the toolkits?
• Each group will share ideas from their group.

This year a team of special education teachers will create the Disability Awareness Toolkit.

Status: Complete 

Goal: All special education staff members will develop a personal equity goal. Various members of the Special Education department will be facilitating discussion groups during the 2021-2022 school year centered around race.

Status: Complete and ongoing

Goal: In the 2020-2021 school year, 80% of the Special Education staff will use the tools created by the department to initiate at least one conversation or lesson (depending on your professional role) focused on race by June 1, 2021.

Status: Complete 

Goal: The Special Education Department will develop tools to facilitate racial conversation in the classroom. The department will use 20 minutes of every monthly department meeting dedicated to equity work. The department will develop tools to facilitate racial conversations in the classroom.

We surveyed the staff regarding the number of staff members who have completed equity work in the last 5 years. The results demonstrated that all but a few department members have completed professional development in the area of equity. We have compiled a number of tools for the department to use during equity work including norms, compass, "The N-Word" lesson, "Not a Day has Passed" and a few pertinent videos.

Status: Complete