Dreams Delayed by Sara Mccormick

Healthy Living

2025-09-20 03:40:52 UTC

Ensure we offer affinity spaces where Black students feel a strong sense of belonging
Need for release time for department PD, focused on anti-Black racism and culturally responsive pedagogy in Healthy Living
Having clear accountability measures and data-tracking to monitor disparities in achievement, discipline, etc. (What are we allowed to track in our departments that are in line with the Board's and Ministry's policies?)
Running "listening circles", creating surveys with students and families to collect data, and involving families in advisory councils regarding equity and inclusion for our Black students
Committing to an ongoing, school-wide commitment to anti-racist practices

Voice

2025-10-06 16:20:06 UTC

--> need to revisit and update our end of semester survey to gather meaningful, focused anecdotal data from students; more tailored to specific actions taken to determine outcome (rather than process)

--> continue focus on revisiting and updating our provocations to centre Black Joy (and joy across all intersectional identities), rather than continue to perpetuate harmful stereotypes through choice of texts used -- this is something we need time and support with; finding new texts is a big undertaking

--> need to ensure our ELL students are centred and valued in these conversations as well, not just as after thought -- must consider the uniquely "layered" experience a newcomer has within our school and the many barriers they encounter

--> How can we leverage the broad concepts of plurilingualism, focused on within our French program, to foster greater sense of belonging?

--> what school-wide data should we be tracking? What does the board want us tracking? Where does student privacy factor in?

--> Does JASS need a unified, school vision and approach to the next phase of our commitment to anti-racist work?

Arts/Tech

2025-10-10 13:10:01 UTC

Modelling how to have conversations surrounding acts of anti-Black racist behaviours occurring in the classroom (e.g. all students working on group tasks, but non-Black students isolating Black students from full participation in those tasks, asking another non-Black student to sit in a designated spot where an absent Black student sits, etc.)

Arts/Tech

p0080415 — 2025-10-14 00:40:06 UTC

Creating a school-wide survey (with data from students) addressing ways in addressing and counteracting discriminatory behaviour (including anti-Black racism)
Combining this survey with curriculum-based class discussions (interdisciplinary)
Including Black families in discussions on ways in which the JASS community is committed to addressing and eradicating anti-Black racism in classrooms and the school