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Educating all staff on different cultural norms that impact our students and their education.

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This group holds high importance during this time--- We need to improve our teaching and learning of civics

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This group holds high importance during this time--- We need to improve our teaching and learning of civics

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Acceptance, Unity, Educating that all groups are welcome, the Immigrant experiences

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Connecting students and families to community services

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what America stands for - civics - curriculum - freedom of religion - the immigrant experience

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Calendar, school hours & other structures within school to fit customs & celebrations of a variety of cultures beyond white, Christian

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Feeling including in the school community

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OPS has only so many resources-- aligning with outside/community resources. What already exists?

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Community support is needed - who is doing similar work - collaboration - how can we add to those resources

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Normalizing the immigrant/refugee experience so that they don't feel ostracized

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Language - many spoken among our students - closing the gap with language - including dialects and slang

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OPS is home to many languages-- we need to close gaps between languages-- find more access

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When I first joined as a new teacher, we had the liaisons or interpreters do a PD session on some basic culture understanding.  I don't know if they still offer this, but it was the best PD I had gotten!

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Represent and honor student home languages

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It is important to ensure that language teachers understand that language is alive. We need to move away from teachers policing how students express themselves...acknowledging that a variety of words are used to talk about the same thing...honoring the higher-level functioning taking place when kids codeswitch

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Avoid having to place the burden to interpret on the child-- Getting in touch with families for Special Education needs. We need qualified, available interpreters.

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Students shouldn't have to interpret for their parents from staff

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Names are important, mispronouncing one's name can be tough

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There is an amazing woman named Alana Schriver that used to work at Yates. She is extremely knowledgeable on the refugee experience and provided an amazing PD that I heard about 8 years ago. We need to bring more people like her in.

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Educating staff on student needs-- Places to pray, lunch/dietary needs are met for groups of students, places for students who fast

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A space to honor religious practices - dietary needs

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honor religious dietary practices

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Students not participating in music due to religious beliefs

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For example, for students who do not participate in music

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I'm also wondering about members of the Inclusion Committee doing some educating within their school buildings around all three affinity groups. Within my own school I have had to do a lot of teaching around pronouns/gender identify, anti-racism work, etc to my fellow staff members. I just wonder if we would ever want to think about doing some teaching to our peers more formally. I know this is a huge thought. I'm just making sure I bring it up :)