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we promotes SEL as an important part of the curriculum. FOR /Student Council/Best Pals work on trying to make a cohesive and inclusive enviorment.

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Use Scholastic and other resources to promote SEL and current events in an unbiased way that exposes students to others views, believes ,and backgrounds and do this in a way that opens discussions

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For 7th grade we do ROPES.  We also do Science Fair in which anyone that wants to can participate.

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Teachers try to get to know their students and respect their different identities. Many of our subjects touch on diverse topics

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It would be helpful to update our literature (especially our novels) to better represent our changing community

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FOR, Best Buddies, Special Olympics, Destination Imagination, Intramurals, Hoops For Heart, Team building SEL opportunities, clubs for students who are struggling with Identity

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Special education services are high level and students of inclusion are immersed within our classrooms and able to engage with all students and peers.

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Special education services are high level and students of inclusion are immersed within our classrooms and able to engage with all students and peers.

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- Kristen Sacco
-Amanda Sylvester

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Choices, Roll of Thunder, SEL book groups, Diverse names and pictures in work that is exposed to students. Ruby Bridges lesson to help with Black History

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Creating clubs for students of minority groups LGBTQ etc in order to have support navigating in this setting

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More speakers and presentations for the students/assemblies

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maybe more ways where the students /families from different backgrounds have a way to express their struggles
more out of schools ways for students and families to make connections

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More training for teachers on how to handle difficult comments or conversations.

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Our Media Center really helps support diversity through literature - now the students can also get online books as well which is great during the pandemic

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Making more social contexts for students where they really need to get to know each other on deeper levels

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Our curriculum does a really good job of lending itself to discussions about societal differences across the globe, and how what we think is not the same as other countries.

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Would be great to include opportunities to share cultural traditions, foods etc.  to help support kids' appreciation for differences

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Would be great to include opportunities to share cultural traditions, foods etc.  to help support kids' appreciation for differences

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Updating resources available to staff and students would help with this as well as providing interactive events/experiences that allow for all groups to gather and learn about one another.

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Updating resources available to staff and students would help with this as well as providing interactive events/experiences that allow for all groups to gather and learn about one another.

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-Kristen Sacco
- Amanda Sylvester

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Cultural lessons from a variety of countries and backgrounds

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DiscoveryEd allows for changing reading levels.

Science Fair provides opportunities for talented and ambitious students to show their potential.

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-Diversity in our literature that we use to teach
-concepts taught in health could be tied into classroom expectations/curriculum (ie. empathy, etc)
-monthly school wide topic to focus on equity and acceptance

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Facilitate discussions regarding current events in relevant class, promote a sense of open mindedness to differing opinions that come from peoples backgrounds and experiences. As well as helping students open up to opposition.

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expand club choices - have a variety to allow students to explore interests other than academics and sports

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While our English curriculum has gotten more diverse with the inclusion of Witness to address race issues, all novels include death, murder, and suicide in these. Should we be pairing these writings with positive messages?

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Our curriculum is meant to be obtainable and engaging for all students.  For Art, we try to expose students to all artists and backgrounds that influenced the art culture and styles.

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Our curriculum is meant to be obtainable and engaging for all students.  For Art, we try to expose students to all artists and backgrounds that influenced the art culture and styles.

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- Kristen Sacco
- Amanda Sylvester

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More variety of groups/clubs that are available to students during academic support. Give students who wouldn't normally join (sports,music, student council or friends of Rachel) available groups an opportunity to interact with other students.

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Resources and tools that help/guide us in discussions about difficult topics.

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Resources and tools that help/guide us in discussions about difficult topics.

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- Kristen Sacco
- Amanda Sylvester

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Discussion of various inventors in history whose thoughts and ideas at the time were either supported or not based upon a variety of factors.

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our media center is diverse in its literature; all the great clubs during the school year and summer

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Groups within our school like Friends of Rachel, Student Council, Best Pals. Discovery Ed. offers virtual field. In each of our classes, we examine social structure, rights in ancient civilizations and compare/ contrast to our modern time.

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As teachers, we feel we can provide a safe and accepting class environment. We feel we need guidance for how to promote discussions without singling out individuals and groups of students.

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-varying the way students can demonstrate their knowledge by providing choices for projects
-use of Google extensions for students who need support (Google read and write, etc.)

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-providing training/resources for teachers to facilitate conversations about equity, acceptance, inclusion.

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In general our Best Pals organization is excellent for building leadership skills, civic support, and acceptance of the differently abled. Our Team GREEN encourages middle school students to think about the needs of our community and to show compassion for those who don't have the same resource needs.

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We can work on building a cultural mindset identifying NAPS as a community being inclusive. This would effectively be branding to help reinforce the empathy building and acceptance that we need. It would be excellent to have a school-wide read program to encourage awareness and empathy (like Wonder) to give us a common vocabulary and shared experience. It would be wonderful to have students and families a part of promoting this and being part of the posters/public face of the campaign.

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Our summer reading resources have given our students more variety of voices and experiences.  We have also done this with memoir examples for our memoir assignments.  We would like to expand our offerings to bring in more voices in our main literature units.

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We need to have the conversation openly. Promoting excellence in our community and sharing the variety of families and accomplishments. Highlighting important and influential people who shaped our town and state, and not shying away from recognizing their struggles.