ASIA DEIJ Collaborative Success Stories by Shelly Maldonado

This year at AISCT we held listening sessions with all of our staff. We used an external person to hold them, catered lunch, and held different sessions for people with different types of jobs. Although we are still in the process of collecting the data and sharing it back, we feel that at the very least this allowed them to be heard.

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Curriculum modernization at ISD

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We did a year long audit on middle and high school curriculum. We created unit-by-unit reshuffles and then did a packet of diverse learning engagements for each unit for each subject with a list of possible areas to focus. We coupled this packet with a list of differentiation tools and identity based reminders for classroom management.

Hello

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Inclusion

cosmasngeno1 — 2024-11-03 09:48:10 UTC

Having meeting with the head to reflect on recruitment Processes Yielded a positive Growth of Diverse community that reflects an international Community.

ISU Success Stories:

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Zuula Scholarship program and professional development for local staff, support staff and teaching assistants.

Parent Forums talking about DEIJ, belonging and identity.

Accreditation Requirement.

cosmasngeno1 — 2024-11-03 09:50:15 UTC

I feel,working with Accreditation Bodies,Diversity in all sectors should be one of a must checklist.

DEI @ AIS Abuja

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We are including two things to try to embed DEI in our processes.

One: We have teachers set two goals for professional development. One of the goals is encouraged to relate to specific Danielson criteria related to equity and cultural diversity.

Two: We are embedding DEI criteria in the regular curriculum cycle review.

AISA DEIJ

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Learning from this experience and section.

We don’t have in our school.

We have a staff welfare association in our school

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Local culture assemblies International School of Kenya

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Our Elementary School has begun having cultural music, dance and shared information about Kenya to kick off each of our monthly elementary assemblies. Parents, students and staff have given feedback that it has helped build understanding, love and more interest in Kenyan culture. More people have stated that they look forward to going to the assemblies and it brings a culture of joy to our assemblies.

We asked some representatives from the local culture to plan a 3 minute thing that would be interactive and it we has been successful and asked for since.

Next hopeful steps:

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DEIJ student club at lunchtime

Cultural Celebrations student group and planning committee

Continuations of feedback sessions with students and other community members

Parent Workshop at AISF on Identity, Privilege, and Belonging

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Recently, I ran a parent workshop at American International School of Freetown (AISF) focused on identity, privilege, and belonging. The purpose of the workshop was to help parents understand how the concept of intersectionality helps teachers inform how they can create learning spaces that are culturally affirming and inclusive. My son is a student at the school and one of the board president approached me about facilitating this workshop because there had been a few reports of identity-based harm taking place within the school. Also, the school is committed to figuring out how to engage in DEIJ work in a way that goes beyond representation and is fully integrated within curriculum and policy.

Community Day at the American school of Antananarivo

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Last week we had our DEI consultants at our school and on Saturday morning we invited the whole community to have meaningful conversations about belonging in our school. We are at the beginning of this process, and the feedback from parents and teachers was great as they felt heard and felt that it was important listening to different perspectives. We are beginning to build bridges of understanding in our community whilst identifying patterns of recurrent issues.

Harare International School

kdhoro1 — 2024-11-03 10:00:00 UTC

We are working on our DEIJ/B guiding statement
We have revised the school's Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Policy and Philosophy Document
We have conducted a DEIJ/B School Self-Assessment Survey and are in the process of analysing and interpreting the data