Flagstaff Unified School District #1 recently issued the following announcement
Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism Town Hall Meeting Scheduled for October 5th
Participants need to RSVP by Thursday, October 1st at 6:00 p.m.
The Flagstaff Unified School District Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism Task Force will host a digital virtual town hall meeting on Monday, October 5, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. so that the community can provide insights on work in the areas of curriculum, professional development, staff diversity, and student behavior/social emotional learning. The information gathered at the meeting will be considered as part of the Task Force’s report to the FUSD Governing Board meeting scheduled for Tuesday, November 10, 2020.
Individuals interested in participating in the town hall are invited to RSVP via a form available here. There is a cap on the number of active participants due to technology constraints, but the event will also be live streamed to the Flagstaff Unified School District Facebook, Twitter, and Vimeo accounts so that the public can view the meeting.
Coconino County Supervisor Elizabeth Archuleta and former Arizona State Representative Eric Descheenie serve as co-chairs along with Governing Board Members Kara Kelty and Dr. Carol Haden, and Susan Smith, FUSD’s Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Support.
Objectives of FUSD Anti-Racism and Anti-Bias Task Force include:
Establishing a community process to engage all stakeholders to create a shared understanding and commitment to equity, inclusion, and anti-racism. This includes but is not limited to: identifying and correcting practices and policies that perpetuate opportunity and achievement gaps and institutional racism in all aspects of the functioning of the school district with accountability mechanisms.
Review current curriculum and explore expanded curriculum that more accurately depicts the contributions of underrepresented populations to prepare our students to be culturally competent and anti-racist.
Examine recruiting practices to diversify our candidate hiring pools so that there is an increase in representation throughout the district of the students we serve.
Examine and evaluate the use of all resources and practices to meet the socio-emotional needs of our historically underrepresented students.
Original source can be found here.
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