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looking for chances in daily classes to teach empathy, social skills, tolerance and inclusion

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The same people organizing international events, we need more parents to take the time and involve themselves and their children with cultural events.

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Math looking at social justice and how many times black get pulled over as opposed to others. whats the math involved.

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I'm going to introduce new titles by underrepresented authors in my English classes

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I'm going to introduce new titles by underrepresented authors in my English classes

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co-curriculum french and culinary arts working together researching foods and cooking them

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switch kids in each classroom that are doing different languages so they have the opportunity to experience other classes experiences.

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- Pierce ordered new texts and books that represent cultural diversity.
- High school offers clubs targeted towards diversity and cultural awareness.
- AP classes at the high school are open enrollment.
- Pierce students can participate in all clubs (reduce fees).
- Leveled playing field for students who take AP classes.
- More language classes offered in elementary schools and carried into Pierce and High School, including sign language.
- Pierce classes are not leveled.
- Pierce staff includes more even balance of male vs female teachers.
- High school incorporates more parental involvement for the Diversity Community.
- A more active student counsel and more active student involvement in diversity clubs.
- All schools include morning announcements/lunch announcements that include mention of religious and cultural holidays even if it's not a day off.
- Cafeterias at all schools offer "Cultural Table" with various options.
- Increase community outreach and involvement at Pierce and the High School.
- Cultural Awareness as an elective class?
- Increase field trips.

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switch the cultural committee so that they will discuss new information

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Cultural collaboration across the curriculum.

Interdisciplinary approach incorporating cultural themes

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talk about individual cultures so that you can get to know their cultural background.

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*Pen Pal with various schools district wide
*Family Engagement
*More Cultural Awareness
*More engagement between the schools
*Getting to know YOUR students better
*As a Specialist getting a chance to see OUR students more often

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- Start an LBGTQ club at the middle school.
- "Welcome to Middle School" program is tracked and includes a "club fair" which promotes student involvement in extra curricular activities.
- Include more "mix-up" days in the cafeteria so students are sitting with unfamiliar peers.
- Use more inclusive language in the classroom.
- Choose materials for classes that represent diversity (i.e. books, scripts, art, etc).

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Question 3: round 1: I incorporated all of the PD I've learned over the last 5 years in my class. In the PE dept, we offer students to opportunity to do the sports of their own cultures, for example Gaelic Football.

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Question 3: round 1: I incorporated all of the PD I've learned over the last 5 years in my class. In the PE dept, we offer students to opportunity to do the sports of their own cultures, for example Gaelic Football.

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I equitably enforce the MHS student handbook, taking into account the whole child.

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listening to students

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Promote cultural activities through physical education
Holding all of our students to the same high standards
Allow students to express themselves through their music and providing them an opportunity to them to share that with their classmates
Give kids opportunity to
Making contemporary issues mandatory for all  high school students
Making grade homerooms teacher foster discussions on culture

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talking about diversity on a daily/weekly basis -  the difficult concepts

asking students about how they are different and having those conversations

Bring back the World of Difference Program

Train the high school students to be prepared to go to ES schools to RAD and present Meet the Artist

Continue teaching diversity in Latin classes

Being open to the difficult questions and not being afraid to talk about in class

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shcools should talk district wide at each level to build on the curriculum.

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- Help students understand each other's differences
- Regarding students with special needs, discuss strategies with all students
- Promote inclusion
- Music program- need money to get started in band from the start
- Need to fund this for students at an early age
- Use curriculum that shows diverse cultures
- Programs like band/string and French Immersion tend to take away from inclusion
- Mentor program
- Collaborate with other teachers
- Form relationships with other teachers
- World Cafe among grade levels- ex. from 5th-6th, 8th-9th, etc.
- Friend groups stay together based on the elementary schools they went to

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diversity committee

offering books that discuss different cultures

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Round 1

A special ed teacher encouraging inclusion, RAD reading about differences, building upon that in our curriculum

Training for teachers on inclusion

PMS Dr. Spaulding: ask difficult questions of her staff and push the envelope

Address the elephant in the room

How our elementary schools differ with certain schools having a larger population of free/reduced lunch

English versus French Immersion

Before/After school session to address students that have greater needs

Working one-on one with students

Have each student be a part of something

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-I feel like I do this everyday in my job.
-Visual representation in the schools (flags, art work, etc)
-Access to communicate in first language (translator- websites, technology, etc)
-Close the achievement gap
-Lunches

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Building community in individual classrooms.
Everyday in each of our classrooms, we can create the tone and underscore the idea of cultural awareness and rewspect of difference.
We must include the families as whole units to share and be open to communicating.
Getting mentor families in place for transitional years from k-5 to MS and MS to HS
Bringing students and families together in order to have classrooms where teachers model how to have appropriate conversations and have conversations frequently enough so that the conversations are not forced and occur more naturally.

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Round 1:
Create a feeling of comfort for the students.

French Immersion opens minds to new language and new culture.

Do not shy away from holidays or religions because it is such an integral part of the culture. There is a difference between education and celebration.

Have students share "traditions."

Tucker Cookbook example. Unity Night Example.

Reading about Diversity Curr.-having parents coming in.

Change the racial divide within the district and within different schools in the district.

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I will...
Sharing the idea that is started at Pierce Math department.  Looking at the curriculum and making it accessible to all students. Hoping that this concept will spread to other subjects in PMS and then to the other schools. Thinking about the whole student.
I will... teacher's will continue cultural competency training over the coming years.
I will... get to  know the students and be aware of their home culture.
I will... go on home visits to connect to families. Family outreach. More of a home to school connection.

I will... suggest that different cultures/countries be shared throughout the year. Split the globe up into countries to learn about each month.  Each day have students share over announcements interesting facts about these places. Share holidays, food, dance, fun facts, music etc.

I will... suggest... The "I am..." Campaign... take pictures of students at that school and place them around the school... say " I am Collicot". "I am Pierce" etc.  Show who is at the school and they can share a fact about themselves.  Change the photos through out the year.

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by making all students feel welcome

reaching out to parents

recognizing students' culture within the classroom

art and artist from around the world

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*I will be mindful of the students that I teach and the families that I serve
*participate in more professional development opportunities
*secure more multi-ethnic classroom resources
*collaborate more with prior teachers in order to be more aware of the children I will serve
*ART:  develop a curriculum that is more representative of the cultures I serve
*Music:  transitions - making music representative of the cultures in the classroom and of the school culture in general.
*family engagement - Socially and academically

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-Work together with other in order to diversity the English curriculum
-I will create programs that specifically support at-risk students of color
-Peer to Peer support between at-risk students
-Create an opportunity for new faculty to be oriented to the community
-Bridge function for parents to ease the transition to their new school
-Getting by in from my peers to understand that parents need to come during their time, not always convenient to the teacher's time.
-Create a mentoring program for high and middle school students.  (HS goes to the Pierce to support).
-Students feel comfortable in my room.  Talk to students about their different cultures
-Encourage students to share who they are
-Be open to talk about differences even if you don't know what to say
-Bring your experiences to the classroom in a non-judgmental way
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How will you have contributed to the award?

Joined the diversity committee.

Mindfulness with the decor of the classroom.

Holding kids accountable for being kind to one another.

Practice responses - take PD - how do you respond to situations where kids say unkind things to one another?

Revive the "No Place for Hate' as a response to unkindness.

Don't be ashamed of mistakes. Learn from them.

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- Have families in the class feel welcome to share something about their culture to the class. Could be an artifact, story, etc. of their culture.
- Be culturally aware of songs being played over the loud speaker.
- Continue to educate myself about students and their cultures.
- Complete the RETELL course
- Students in the high school are very involved, try to get high school students involved with elementary schools. Create a partnership.
- Talk to students and make a stronger connection with them. Find out what types of music they connect with, etc.
- Connect students to do projects where students with successful professionals with their background. Ex. In a physics class find different scientists of a variety of backgrounds.
- Continues to keep a safe learning environment where students feel comfortable to take chances and ask questions.

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-Educators feel nervous, worried about offending people by acknowledging different cultures.

-We should be braver about acknowledging differences, instead of being comfortable ignoring differences

-Take big risks - talk about racism, slavery, the election. These are things kids need to know, but we can be scared of talking about

-By avoiding conversations, we are making it worse

-There are always going to be people who are upset

-There are so many learning opportunities we miss because we can't have open conversations

-Broadening everyone's ideas of how the world works - Travel Tuesdays - sharing cultures

-Pooling resources, sharing ideas

-Create an elementary social studies curriculum

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How will you have contributed to the honor bestowed upon the Milton Public Schools?
-Include multicultural books in the classroom that are read throughout the year, not just at special events.
-Allow for more conversations  among students.
-Weekend News: Students share experiences from their weekend time out of school.
-Morning Meeting: One student shares something with the class, and all students greet each other.
-Take time and ask questions of students to get to know each other as unique humans.
-Make a concerted effort to share your own experiences
and encourage students to do the same.
- Reach out to parents to increase awareness of what is going on in school; recognize that some parents do not read e-mail, and another form of communication might be necessary.
Make other teachers/staff aware of successes in cultural competence in your classroom.
-Be patient.  Realize that it takes years to see true change and improvements.

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- Reading a variety of texts from a variety of authors that represented diverse backgrounds
- Having some perspective on what you know vs. don't know
-Create a safe space
-Maintaining professional development on needs
-Creating a mentoring program/diversity committee
-Building equity in the classroom and feeling good about content and self
-Develop a good classroom culture and contribute to school classroom
-Making connections to families that may not feel included-personal invitations
-Administrator support of practices and or curriculum that supports groups
-Collaboration from Central office with school groups to create district wide goals
-Promoting cultural competency as a district through curriculum
-Collaborating with CDM
-Make meaningful connections with others across buildings
-Making a change in town--demographics have to change in schools, sports, activities
-Opening the world view for students
-Connecting with the community about changes
-Start to think about how to break down the race and class assumptions and conversations with families
-Included the kids in the conversation from all grades and all schools

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-The creation of "sister schools" in the district
-One teacher invites parents in to her elementary classroom to teach about their culture
-join a committee that would help promote different cultures
-point out that culture does not just mean the color of someone's skin
-ask questions to students about where they are from; further the conversation about cultural differences, making students feel more included
-showing students where different families are from on a map
-incorporating information on different cultures into the classroom
-using culturally sensitive and inclusive language in the classroom (pronouns, parents, gender)
-developing empathy in our students (at the kindergarten level for example)
-thinking of the little things such as having all the colors of the crayons in classrooms

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*Culturally diverse materials in lesson plans
*Make every student feel welcome--attitude of diversity being accepted
*Understand the cultures within the school
*Be accepting of every child that walks through the door
*Differentiate instruction considering cultural differences
*Make curriculum accessible to all students/build confidence
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What are you going to do?

Make sure the curriculum is all-encompassing of the different cultures

Every teacher should know where all of their students come from and work this into the curriculum accordingly (we should be responsible for knowing about survey results)

Science Fair - how can we provide better support to make science fair more interesting and accessible for the populations (low socio-eco, black, Hispanic)

Design a program to include everyone and keep it in school and make it mandatory with the objective of:  Accessing enrichment, celebration within the curriculum - building this access into the daily routine and holding all parties responsible

We contribute by embracing different cultures and not being afraid to talk about them (talk about everything, embrace everything, give of you so that students give of them)

Translate notices home

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De-level the middle school, clear racial distinction between A level and honors classes.
Have daily discussions about race/culture etc. Utilize the parents in the community and benefit from their expertise.
Improve the bridge between the school and parents in terms of involvement/advising. Parents mentoring other parents?

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- Diversify books and ressources  in class and school libraries
- What subjects can or cannot be talked about in classrooms? Need for guidelines

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Complete SEI endorsement
Learn cultural makeup of class
Expand opportunities for everyone in terms of inclusion both in school and in community
Introduce new literature that would be reflective of demographics
every month each school has to pick a book that reflects a culture and read it
all students are educated in the general education classroom

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- Be more aware of my classroom - what's on the walls, literature selected, making things inviting and accepting of all cultures
- Make classroom reflective of student body
- Adjustment counselor will go into classrooms to teach about inclusion, continue to make parent connections
- Work with students, parents and teachers on cultural competence
- Work at International Festival (share cultures across the school)
- Use literature that displays diverse populations/characters
- Share literature across grade levels/teams
- Get to know backgrounds and lifestyles of students
- Units of study that focus on "who am I?" to better understand student backgrounds
- Morning Meeting greeting in multiple languages
- Students allowed opportunity to share family traditions

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- include special education students from preschool/kindergarten
- educate general education students on disabilities
- training for staff on how to handle teaching students about disabilities
- reverse inclusion within and across grades
- "different not less" focus on including "They learn differently but not less"
- how to teach race difference at age appropriate levels
- training for appropriate inclusion of students across grade levels and how to facilitate social interactions and questions that come up (different for different ages)
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-Using the strategies from the SEI curriculum
-Reading books about cultural diversity as early as preschool
-Seed Folk and other books are helpful in making older children like middle-schoolers talk about diversity.
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I will attend PD offered about cultural competency

principals will continue to provide cultural competency

participate in ongoing conversations about these topics

won't make assumptions about anyone based on their race or ethnicity

advocate for the mix it up day in the cafeterias -- make sure kids sit with a variety of kids and eat different foods

Round tables in the cafeteria? or other ways to mix the kids up

provide more student leadership groups -- give students these leadership roles

give opportunities to represent cultures each month

more outward bound experiences for the students to be mixed up

continuous training, mix it up days, continuous discourse

not generalize people based on how they look

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How will You have contributed to the honor bestowed upon the Milton Public Schools?

Continue to teach empathy, tolerance and kindness through literature: Grade 3 "Wonder"

Incorporate stories from around the world - students can identify with the stories - motivates them when they can make a connection

Community Service Requirement brought down to the elementary level

Teaching Civics

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At Pierce in my classroom, I will contribute students will feel safe and comfortable in my classroom.  They will feel safe and comfortable withe each other and themselves.

Students will be assigned random groups or partners so everyone is included.

No one will be wandering around looking for a partner.

In English class we will read class novels with encounter different cultures.

Students will be exposed to different religions and races and ethnicities as part of the curriculum

Students will feel their individuality and worth but not be tokens.

When we work in groups, we will have roles like "notetaker" or "host" like at this event.

It seems like there will be a shift of less pull-out special ed and that is going to affect a lot. This will change the community within the classroom. We need to find a way to encourage cultural competency in regards to inclusion as there is going to be a big change.

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Question 2 Round 1                                   -To have interpreters available and ability to translate communication to home language.                                          -More access to language learners (adult ed)-Eliminate Fee's (transportation, extra curricular activities, athletics, etc)                          -Elementary Schools- open enrollment (not limited to neighborhood schools)

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Question 2 Round 1                                   -To have interpreters available and ability to translate communication to home language.                                          -More access to language learners (adult ed)-Eliminate Fee's (transportation, extra curricular activities, athletics, etc)                          -Elementary Schools- open enrollment (not limited to neighborhood schools)

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* High school teachers recognize that students tend to stick with their own cultures/races during social times like lunch.
* Needs to be more of an awareness of what it means to have a truly inclusive classroom.

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include significant people in hostory lessons
identify connectionsamong characters to people

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expanding STEM as a more inclusive and attractive alternative to French

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*putting up posters relating to different cultures "I am Cunningham"
*Each month having students present about a certain culture during the morning announcements
*Accountability and deadline for teachers to teach the bullying program
*encouraging students to get involved in school the way that they want to
*teachers/administrators need to say "What could we be doing to make you want to participate in something you are interested in?"
*The number of clubs available for students to participating in

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What we might do in the future: Do Field Day with other schools to mix the elementary schools BEFORE they move up to middle school.

Utilizing the PTO's to coordinate cross school field trips or other events.

Increase student clubs and organizations at the high school level, get them to start clubs they are interested in and guide them toward diverse clubs.

Keeping and pushing social skills programs in the schools to teach them how to interact with other students.

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Cunningham - fifth graders can stay in

Responsive classrooms - morning meetings at Tucker very helpful. Greetings in different languages. Show them flag, etc. Then you can say, "Who'd like to suggest a greeting for this morning?"
Inclusive environment for ELLs.

Unity Night at Tucker-put on by Diversity Commitee.

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RAD program
Consistent programs across all schools
Meet the artist
Unity Night
Staff support around transgender students
Put policies in place for transgender students
After school day care for evening events so all can attend
More options in the history department
Expanding our reading list through the humanities curriculum
Library has fantastic options for diverse populations
Offer before and after school supports for all students that are based on where they live, not the school they go to

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Solutions to Elementary Diversity within Students - providing choice of neighborhood school

Parents who are less involved need to be given options to get involved - translator, family outreach

Matched families with mentor families to get engaged in the school

Lunch room diversity - meeting new groups, meeting new people. Music supporting sports etc. Different groups supporting others with an incentive within schools

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Schools have students in groups/clubs for cultural diversity

Student involvement/leadership roles

Middle School moved lunch table around and moved their groups

MHS: having conversations about diversity, initiated changes made by the student voice and are student driven

MHS student had a senior project dealing with white/black

Understanding how students have hardships in middle school

Home life as a culture

Reduced and free lunch students

Sharing important information for the purpose for helping them more successful

Learning Pantry

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-Pierce: whatever initiative is implemented, ensuring that it is continued through at least three years for a student so that it can be a tool they use past the years at the middle school....continuance and synergy
-Having an all-school-read to have a common conversation around cultural topics--not tested or graded but to educate and create a common language
-Tying this topic into our evaluation tool and having a professional goal for all staff within a school/district
-Embed the values and language into the curriculum all the time, every day, not just one lesson or one unit
-High School: embedding literature all year that addresses multicultural concepts and aspects
-Having students start the conversations and have clubs and student groups outreach to bring it to the elementary and middle school students.
-Family engagement: getting more family involvement at the middle school level in the diversity committee following the elementary involvement

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getting elementary school to comebine or field day more often
make more diverse for the immersion programs. - mostly girls.

information sessions at elementary schools that had parents who are involved, parents

HS clubs being more diverse, everyone being acknowledged. club fair on a half day.  intro'd to all clubs and sports.

mentoring group.  teachers will recommend some studens to certain groups.

cook club exhcange recipes.   and invite parents to come.  get out and meet other people.

diversity committee w parents teachers admin, kids.

math night, movie night, celebrate diff things and include parents.

parent committees.  international parents  have a tough time- tough time at IEP meetings, provide them info and support.

1st time the kids get to the middle school together, uniqute opportunityh w/ their oreintation , study buddy groups, deliberately have groups that reflect populations.

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We need a survey to understand the culture of our school. Provide opportunities for all families embrace the cultures of of our schools. Cunningham can go around to other schools to share what they do, "fill your bucket" . Everyone comes together. Should we have neighborhood schools? Different levels at different schools. to bring all children and families together at the same academic level. The high school their are many students who can talk about the different cultures and it is building and becoming better every year. Go back to pen pal in other schools. Reaching out to the different communities.

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Question 2
Consistency among all schools in the district - language.
District wide parent-advisory council.

Director of cultural sustainability.
Someone with their finger on the pulse of teen culture. Keep message consistent among staff and parents.

Address school climate.

Incentive for graduates to come back and teach.

Change leadership among schools.

Sabbatical to explore something in your field or something cultural relevant.

French program also segregates kids socioeconomically, racially, and culturally.

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-We started acknowledging and celebrating all holidays rather than ignoring them.
-Don't censor literature that talks about same sex couples (It takes two to tango) Educating parents about the need to teach their children about differences rather than hiding it.

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Pierce
Assigned tables at middle school once per week to mix up students.

Math project where teachers are learning different strategies for increasing cultural competence in the math class.

Tucker
Most diverse student population out of all the elementary schools, and they suggest increasing diversity in all schools by moving to a K-2 and 3-5 schools. This could increase cultural competence across the elementary schools.

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having parent volunteers come in to give a presentation on a different dish that the cafeteria has created that day

Making sure to bring the community in and involve the entire community

Ways to make sure that parents feel like part of the community

ways to offer extra curricular clubs to students who may not be able to afford it

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Elementary school diversity. Lack there of. Opportunities for the students to stay and work on diversity and culture together as well. Try and integrate and address this issue asap. It si perpetuating the ideas and stereotypes.

Best buddies program at the high school is wonderful!!!!!!!

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Whatever culturally competent behavior we are exhibiting, we need to know and be told that it is culturally competent and then it should be published district-wide. HOwever, the schools are racially so different that maybe one thing that works at Collicot, it might not work at Tucker?

Could be have a single space where these techniques are listed or available to us? What are our colleagues doing that is working?

How can Tucker be so racially diverse and Collicot not?  Distressing to group members.  Maybe one solution is that town-wide, all Kindergartners and Pre-K should be in one school. Then there can be 1-3 in another school. The 4-5 in another.  Group memebers realize that this is a long-shot but that is should not be. It should be do-able. Other districts do it-- why not us? PUtting everyone in the same building--n that is equity. Everyone wanted neighborhood schools because that is easier. Is that what we are striving for? What is easiest?

We agree that it is not rocket-science that when the rich white kids go to school with richt white kids and etc... what the speaker is mentioning right now... We know that this makes a huge difference in who our kids turn out to be

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- De-leveling classes
- Inclusion classes
- High School students- older and more mature- should have a project and be working on a social topic other than the state standards
- Have students present their topics to the whole district
- Elementary students all read the same book to share ideas

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At Pierce-
-6th Grade Friendship Book- addresses and numbers if parents give permission so that students can contact one another

-High School students come in to elementary classrooms, to be role models

-Each school hosts a World Fair for the entire town

-Much more parent education on different elementary schools, as well as french vs. english

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Our school will contribute by:
- International nights. It will be a few times around the year and all schools will visit the others
- Visual acknowledgement  of cultures at the lobby. To be updated every year. Include flags, banners
-Students present an autobigoraphy and present their cultures to class in the beginning of the year
Second round:
- Include books in libraries about different authors of different countries
-Reach out to the parents of ELL students
- LBGT training to be spread out around the district to the teachers. Also this training should be given to the parents, so that they know how to inform their children.
- Trainings about ''valuing the diversity'' should be community based.
- A night for the celebration of a particular culture ex: Haitian night. Where all students and parents of different nights get together to present their culture. Same format for all countries.

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Unity Night at Tucker
Diversity Night at Collicot
Celebrating our Differences
Kids celebrating other kids' activities (e.g., the soccer team watching and supporting the play)
Discovering Justice at the high school
One Book One School at Collicot

In the future: we could (as teachers) find out what activities kids participate in and group them accordingly to help them get to know each other

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staff attended professional development to continusly learb about changing community

diversity committees expand  diversity committies of each school combined

creating safe environemnt for children

Question 2 - literacy as a schoolwide goal.

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elementary:
- there is a diversity committee
-dug through the library at the elementary school to make sure the books are representative of all cultures and abilities
-changing the set up of the elementary schools to make sure that each school is representative of the town.
- important to start inclusion early to gain respect - preschool level

middle school:
-encouraging kids to break out of their comfort zone and interacting with others when entering into the new school.

high school:
-peer mentor program
-teachers/staff who are willing to think outside of the box

Round Two:

elementary:
- weekly team building activities with kids who are not in your class.

-has to be something that is fundamentally a part of who we are as a school (curriculum, social)

-number representation of people who represent all of the different cultures.

middle school:
-doing world cafe with the students

high school:
-all countries flags represented in the hallway when enter the lobby

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At the middle school, mix up students in the cafeteria so that students get to interact in different groups...maybe special theme days, or group by different kinds of cultural foods and music

International festival at middle that includes community

Working toward de-leveling mathematics and ELA so that there is more diverse representation of students across the classes.

Tucker
Using Saturday academy for the 3rd graders to meet and work each other across French and English.

In ELA and other subjects, highlighting leaders and important figures from different cultures that represent the student body.

Collicot

Increased awareness among student body and school community of the diversity of cultures & religion that are represented in the school.

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by having teachers are willing to attend professional development and implement curriculum

creating plays and choosing productions that represent diversity

making it all inclusive not just during the academic day

taking a look at what is on the wall's in your school and the hallways - be aware of what you have the power to put up in those common places

making sure there are strong images of faces of varying colors

showing different races, cultures, backgrounds on public areas

posters that represent the school : for example "I am Pierce" (or whatever the school is ) with the faces of all the students

show where families come from - what we eat- etc and put that up

hiring staff that make sure we are implementing curriculum etc

Create a timeline of when we will have these things done to make sure and hold teachers accountable for making sure they are teaching about cultural competency

make sure that all practices are across ALL the schools - not have these things contained in individual schools

Instead of focusing on just Black History Month -- creating a different culture represented in each month and representing it throughout the month

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Tucker- Diversity book to write about culture
Celebrating more holidays and expose them to other cultural celebrations
Strong Diversity committee
Curriculum that doesn't create a divide
All elementary schools joined forces maybe cultural connected

Pierce- Where everyone comes together. Opportunity for the transition to cultural competant
Buddy programs.

High School- Conversation, accessible curriculum that promotes equity understanding
Student driven initiatives

Question #2 Round 2
Elementary
Two teachers in the classroom to help meets the needs of all students

More diverse student bodies at all schools- know students for a long time

More connections being made between all elementary schools students so the transition before the Middle School. (pen pals, group events)

Conversations started at Middle School

High School
Students in hs being role models going to the elementary schools.

Overall
Committees where families are invited
Outreach staff at all schools
Curriculum to include culture, equitable, and accesible

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MHS - PD, offering new classes to highlight classes, clubs and accommodating staff for new clubs. Need to make the transition from middle to high easier

Colicott - least diverse, largest pop., international day, diversity committee. Competent because we don't celebrate

Glover -

Tucker - multi - cultural story tellers, monk, pot luck, community circle, awards for different

Pierce - unleveling to balance class distribution, research project for equity in the classroom. anti-bullying

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Middle School - monthly Mix-it-up at lunch sessions where students sit with new friends
Focusing on something like the "Open Circle" program to work on social skills regularly
Elementary - diverse classroom libraries (autistic characters, African American characters, etc)
This would work at the High School as well to expand the selections of the required reading
Providing more opportunities for before and after school programs even when transportation is an issue
Working to diversify the sports options as well/music as well especially for students who cannot afford private lessons

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* Middle school will look different over the next 5 years because students will be more active and involved in diversity campaigns and initiatives.
* Curriulum will look different with more texts where all students can "see themselves" in the literature.
* More PD as staff to come together and create new projects around culture and diversity. Needs to be more of a priority.
* Time needed to research quality literature to introduce to our classes.
* Within schools, to make children more integrated so that they are not just socializing with kids in their class or program.
* Teaching children ways to keep their minds open to other cultures.

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- Library books culturally diverse
- Display cases in the school involve families to display their culture
- Multicultural night district wide
- Invite all ELL student's families to share their experience and culture
- Share best practices with all schools in the district
- Gender neutral bathroom
- Common language throughout the whole district (LGBT)
- Understand your students culture and understand their upbringing, having a resource for the district

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Tucker- feature Tucker graduate who earned a  doctorate of education and then came back to give back to her community
Pierce- more programs after school that will keep students wanting to come to school (connected)
creative programs after school in addition to sports (i.e. arts, photography)
Look at socioeconomic factors associated with after school programs
Director of cultural sustainability
Parent /community room as a resource
Start at elementary level to have resource with parents
Expand concept of what is family (i.e. aunty)

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elem can do the readings
read about diversity
middle school can do a performance
or someone to come in to speak
elem can be more collaborative w/ field days or pen pals between school
surveys
family involvement.  it's always teh same parents that volunteer.  get more cultural rep on PTO's etc.
international day at the HS
More cultureally diverse staff.
notices that go home be available in multiple languages.
HS students going down to the younger kids
Tucker needs to work on divesity in the French program - gender differences between 2 programs.
on half days, instead of running classes, have the kids do cultural activities.

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*tied into the initiatives put in place
*family outreach at the elementary level
*pairing with local community food places for events like a diversity night
*pairing with members of the community to pull them into the school community (mutual benefits with this partnership-help strengthen relationships with families)
*determining the cultural environment of Milton
*students integrate their social skills and make connections (global connections) with the world around them
*Diversity nights are developmentally appropriate at the elementary level
*Combine Unity Nights across all elementary schools
*form and develop relationships among students in all schools focusing more on getting to know each other as opposed to labeling students to which school they attend
*World Cafe for transition years

***Prioritizing opportunities for dialogue and exchanges among students

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* More diverse libraries/collections that represent family structures, backgrounds, challenges, etc.
* School-lunch cross-cultural.
* No highlighting, just synchronized into the rhythm of the school day.
* Career-day and/or outside speakers...MHS and Pierce.
* School as Center of of Community.
* Identify and solve barriers for an individual student to participation in an extracurricular.
* Pierce is the Convergence School, but students often segregate themselves by elementary school peers...how to allow students to feel confident enough to find new peers.
* Create elementary school populations that are more representative of the town.

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Elementary
Spread out the diversity among all 4 elementary schools. End the neighborhood segregation which becomes socioeconomic segregation.

Having the time to teach what is important. Not testing skills! We should be teaching students how to interact with each other and build knowledge about the world . We should be teaching students how to be world citizens which is not part of our curriculum at the moment.

Responsive Classroom

One Book One School

High School
Curriculum shouldn't be segregated into distinct class like "social justice," that type of teaching should be integrated into every class.

Middle School
Again, classes intertwined - social justice integrated into every class and lesson.

Social justice projects and sharing of ideas.

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Question 2, round 1
*Pierce by it's nature has a more diverse culture than each individual elementary school.  The diversity level there is more similar to that of the town.  Right now Honors students in math are separated from on level kids.  Plan is to rearrange this to spread kids more evenly.
*High School classes,depending on the subject matter, have different levels of diversity
*There is a strong ELL outreach person at the Collicot school - is a great liason to families to assist them with helping their children
*Collicot school has the One Book One School event to promote cultural diversity.  Families and the school community are involved and included during adventure night
*MHS has a diversity committee that has an international night and a diversity committee night focusing on cultural successes - both students and families are invited and incluede
*the Tucker school has a unity night to celebrate cultural differences
*Glover school has a celebrating our differences program that includes the students during the school day and involves the family in an evening event
*Glover school 3rd grade promotes a third grade culture by mixing the kids up  - out of their regular classrooms for different activities - "switch - a-roo"
*Some of the elementary schools do a meet the artist program to expose children to different art styles/artists/cultures - is parent run
*MHS and Pierce has best buddies programs to include and involve students of all abilities.

Question 2, round 2:
*all different schools have different programs that promote diversity
*all of the elementary schools combine 5th grade students from the French and English programs to allow them to meet new students, make new friends, see differences in other students

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-grade appropriate language
-webbing between schools need to be strengthened
-common language across district
-Training high school students to go to elementary schools to speak to them-"meet the artist" or "meet the student"
-having former students communicate/mentor upcoming students
-easier to discuss cultural diversity in elementary classrooms than high school-teachers made be more willing
-build it into homeroom?

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- Diversity celebration with students
- diversity in curriculum
- Diversity dinner
- Parent involvement
- Teaching students to be more open minded
- After school clubs to celebrate and participate in diversity
- Have a specific curriculum that deals with these issues
- celebrate differences as a community
- parent reach out and involvement in celebrations
- Have materials available that expose students to different cultures at a young age
- collaboration across departments/ grade levels/ schools
- hire a more diverse staff
- Half days- devote to diversity fairs ( high school)
- More language choice and language classes in the elementary schools
- back to school night - more intimate to get to know family and culture
- Food from cultures  to learn about each families background
- Time to touch on religious holidays , educate students

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How will your school have contributed to the honor of this award?

-French and English students combined for elective classes. This is happening at the Cunningham Elementary School.  The French and English program causes
-Socioeconomic issues is the elephant in the room.  We need to find a way to address it.   If the underlying reason for not participating (ie: hockey and equipment) we need to minimize this.
-Marti McKenna's Family Outreach position could help with these issues at all schools
-PTO inconsistencies among schools could be evened out
- All teachers should have information about who is low income. *****
- Educators are nervous to discuss things that may be uncomfortable.  Again, teachers should have the most information possible.
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Round 1

Cunningham - RAD, parent involvement in reading program, teaching tolerance respect and diversity through literature.  Reader's workshop flexibility to chose books that increase cultural competency.

Pierce Middle School EDC - Math program to increase teacher proficiency w/minority students.

Milton High School - Calculus Program improving student performance in math. Expanding program in high school and district.

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Elementary: Common language around cultural competency;
Specific lessons for teaching students about disabilities - Disability Awareness Day; lessons to develop empathy and acceptance

High School: More options for honors and AP classes - Open to anyone who would like to attend

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-Glover and Collicot will adopt RAD
-A district wide diversity committee will develop a curriculum that will be implemented in all 6 Milton Public Schools
-Create a system where new families are given a buddy family to help them transition into the system so they can feel part of the community...Marty McKenna is in charge!
-Incr

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-started the RAD (reading about differences) program k-5. Six different lessons on differences.
accepting differerences 4-5
unity night at tucker using local talent...during the school day to show importance.
more focus at the elementary...
we are ready to look, try and make changes.
CLASS
LBGT
engagement of the families
FUNDING OF THE WORLD GEOGRAPHY/HiSTORY DEPT!!!
goals for inclusion: make everyone feel included not just learning disabled

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-Tucker Cookbook- given out to families
-RAD (Read About Diversity) - should be in all elementary schools
-Meet the Artist- go one step further, having people of all different backgrounds come in (handicap, blind, deaf, etc.)
-Unity Night- make it more culturally diverse, more than just the dance
-Potluck - families bring food of their choice (from their cultures)
-World Fair - represent your culture, families host a booth to celebrate their culture
-Diversity Committee

-Celebrate more holidays and understand why they are celebrated

-Information on background of the student body in each school (where are they from, what cultures)

-More education on gender identity/LGBT issues especially for parents

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Collicot- survey to know backgrounds of all constituents and plan curriculum around these.
MHS- Culturally themed dances monthly..music, food, dress. Utilize students' ability to engage in a culturally responsive project (in groups).
PMS- racially even distribution of students across all levels....embrace survey data to plan for needs.
Cunningham- continue inclusive initiatives that support the growth and development of the student as a good citizen.
Every school- tap into the resources of the educators within the building.

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Encouraging collaboration between the elementary schools, which is currently dismal. There is almost none at all.  Maybe having an after-school enrichment programs that includes the other schools. Maybe field trips together.

@ Pierce, maybe having LGBTQ programs because there doesn't seem to be much. Collicot has like no same-sex parents because it is such an Irish Catholic community

We need at Pierce more school spirit, if we had wanting to belong to the culture would help foster a team environment.

There is a lot of community dialogue at Tucker surrounding the "college-bound" idea

We need to mix kids up. Create advisor groups or communities. Some way to mix up the students together.

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more inclusion programs

combined unity night at elementary school

integration between French and English

Structured activities at Elementary that encourage social integration

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*address sub-group data
*have calculus project kids take high-school calculus
*include the new families
*system-wide commitment to ongoing discussion of cultural identity and inclusion
*make it a social goal instead of an academic goal
*culturally diverse food days in cafeteria
*offer parents cultural diversity trainings
*expand Spanish immersion program in elementary programs
*non-American sports
*expand clubs
*international fest more than once a year
*intercultural field day
*using early release days for exposure-type workshops
*Advisory Period

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How will your school have contributed to the honor bestowed up on the Milton Public Schools?

- eliminate all user fees
- community center / afterschool program and opportunities
- debate clubs
- making things available for families after hours
- block party with teacher support

group 2:
-looking at curriculum
- researching cultural norms
- teachers experiencing cultures in the countries
- all students reading the same book at the same grade level and continuing
- One Book One School events
- staffing
- diversity quotients for schools rather than neighborhood schools
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Glover/Tucker -  celebrating our differences one month celebration of diverse people with guess speakers (race, ability levels, etc.); regular and consistent activities and lessons that include diversity; welcoming to different sexuality and transgender (have it be part of training for staff prior to it arising in schools); including parents more (provide childcare so parents can attend evening - have high school students volunteer)
Collicot -  integration of students with disabilities and teaching students about disabilities;
Cunnigham -
All schools - include parents more (childcare for evening activities - high school students volunteer);  more access to before and after school programs (transportation - late bus); consistency across schools (every school has different activities and programs);  PTO diversity and offering alternative parent involvement for parents who work full time and miss opportunities to

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* Family outreach - Tucker potluck's, One Book, One School
* Having translators available for all communication, however minor
* Papers, flyers, all school information in a translated form
* More male teachers in elementary system
*Student groups bringing families together
* Diverse PTOs,  high Diversity Committee
*Continuity between schools involvement for diversity committees, PTOs
* Students being able to voice concerns about diversity - student input

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Incentive program to work in another culture, come back and educate faculty
Work on making newcomers feel welcome from the registration process

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How will your school have contributed to the honor bestowed upon the Milton Public Schools?
--High school students go to the elementary schools
- Half day "PD" for the students on the half days as well.
Parent involvement. Parent outreach program. Incorporating families into the classroom more.
HIgh school- better communication about students home and family lives.
Tucker- reading about diversity program (has parent volunteers). Nice to see the sharing with the students.

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- Socioeconomic barrier could be addressed to help win this award.  Tucker School does help the families access town activities.
- Milton: the disparity is huge.  A child could be on free lunch sitting next to a student living in a 1.5 million dollar home
- Cunningham has started RAD - Reading About Differences. (Names children call their grandmothers, skin color)
- We should open the doors to family more often.  Involve more families than just those in sports
- If the elementary schools, we could create more instances where they share
-Helping to facilitate more cooperation/mingling among program choices