This April, students in our Gender 和 Sexuality Awareness club are celebrating Gaypril! 在Gaypril, 学生组织活动,以提高对影响我们自己的校园和更大的社区LGBTQIA+学生的问题的认识和教育他人. 学生们庆祝酷儿之声日——这是一个通过制作海报和在亲密空间分享来关注和提升校园酷儿人群的日子. 一些学生参加了 默哀日: a day created by student activists to bring attention to the bullying 和 harassment of LGBTQIA+ students. This form of protest is in solidarity with those who are too often silenced by their communities.
Below are some resources that our GSA leaders shared with our comm团结 throughout the month. 看看这些文章 纽约时报, 美国公民自由联盟, VOX.
除了在gaypri4期间举办活动和活动, GSA的领导和成员正在筹集资金 特雷福项目, an organization dedicated to providing counsel, education, 宣传 for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Join our students in celebrating Gaypril by educating yourself 和 raising awareness about issues impacting Queer, 跨性别和LGBTQIA+人群.
CPS日是一年一度的社区学习庆祝活动, 团结, 以及在公平和社会正义方面取得进展. This highly anticipated day offers an opport团结 for participants to delve deeply into a specific topic; this year’s theme is Income Inequality 和 Economic Justice.
CPS日的主要目标是扩大学生对历史和当代持续存在的经济差距的系统性障碍的理解. 此外, we seek to inspire our participants by sharing examples of successful comm团结-based initiatives, 宣传, 以及反对经济压迫的政策.
我们的十名教师参加了2022年在圣安东尼奥举行的全国有色人种独立学校协会会议, 12月的TX. 我们的教职员工超过7人,800 adults 和 students from independent schools across the country gathered to learn, 合作, 互相支持. 这次会议是与全国各地的独立学校建立联系和专业发展的机会,他们分享我们通过教与学建立公平和归属感的承诺. 今年的主题是 Reunited in Purpose: Elevating our Worth, our Agency, our Excellence.
数学老师, 悬崖花王, reflected "While there is value in creating affinity groups 和 underst和ing shared cultural environments, 我们必须记住,人们, 即使是那些最明显的同质群体, 能有截然不同的经历吗, 调节, 以及对生活的看法. 只有通过移情, 耐心, 听, 只要我们努力相互理解,我们就有希望在这个我们都称之为家园的星球上共存、繁荣."
丽莎·邦塔·苏米, 一位澳门新葡新京在线的现任家长和心理治疗师, 在TEDXWilmington做了一个题为 My Heart Is Browner Than My Skin: The Intersection of Race, Mental Health & 澳门新葡新京在线 讲述了她作为菲律宾人和白人女性寻找归属感的过程,以及她如何通过体育来应对自己的心理健康问题. 在这次TEDX演讲中,她还讨论了她作为一个混血女性的经历,她发现肤色并不能反映她的全部身份,以及这个发现如何导致她与湾区的精英运动员一起研究心理健康和运动表现. http://youtu.be/p9SiaJTPES0
作为College Prep持续致力于在学校生活的各个方面以种族正义和公平为中心的工作的一部分, Dr. Valaida明智被选中进行股权审计. 我们和Dr. 她对自己的教育经历很了解, 股权审计需要什么, 以及她对澳门新葡新京在线工作的兴奋.
Dr. Wise received her Doctorate of Education in Education Leadership from George Washington University. She also holds a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education from Trinity College. She has served as the Head of School at the National Child Research Center in Washington DC, 贝塞斯达的海港学校, MD, Henson Valley Montessori School in Prince Georges County MD. She is currently on the faculty at John Hopkins University, Baltimore in the School of Education. She is the Chair of the 校董会 at Creative Minds International Public Charter School in Washington DC, sits on the board of other schools 和 institutions in Maryl和. 你可以找到更多澳门新葡新京在线Dr. 看透她 网站.
On December 14, 2021, 澳门新葡新京在线’ Association 股本 和 Inclusion Committee welcomed Dr. Frank Worrell for an evening presentation 和 discussion with parents. 我们很荣幸能邀请到. Worrell,他的工作是国际公认的. 目前, he is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley, where he serves as 教师 Director of the School Psychology program, 学术人才发展计划, 以及加州大学预备学院. 他还在心理学系的社会和人格领域拥有附属职位,并且是美国心理协会的当选主席.
Dr. Worrell分享了他的一些研究, focusing on topics of particular interest to the College Prep comm团结: the psychology of high performance, 文化认同在教育成果中的作用, 将人才发展作为资优教育的框架. 在一个内容广泛的演讲中. 沃勒尔既谈到了一般问题,也谈到了少数族裔在以白人为主的学校环境中面临的一些特殊负担. Dr. Worrell的研究结果让我们深入了解了在面对刻板印象威胁和其他障碍时培养韧性的保护因素. 要了解更多澳门新葡新京在线Dr. Worrell和他的工作,请点击这里.
Thanks to the PAEIC for continuing to support important conversations with our parent/guardian comm团结.
We look forward to welcoming Alex和ria Osei-Amoako to College Prep this summer!
在莎拉劳伦斯学院获得学士和硕士学位, Alex和ria Osei-Amoako has worked with students of all ages in diverse educational settings, 包括为美国而教, KIPP DC:承诺学院,, 最近, 圣地亚哥梅萨的高科技高中小学. 他自称为终身活动家和学习者, Alex和ra has worked for more than a decade to help schools institutionalize equitable practices. 她说她的驾驶问题是, “我们如何利用集体思想, 权力, 强度, diversity in order to re-envision institutions of 权力 和 privilege?”
2月1日, our Black Student Union (BSU) shared a set of dem和s with the administration 和 the comm团结. These dem和s represent the voices of students who are earnestly invested in seeing College Prep live up to its mission; as such, 我们感谢这些学生领袖为今年冬天的公平和归属感工作提供了批判性的观点和紧迫性. 另外, College Prep continues to build on the progress of last semester 和 created a summary of major actions, 根据学生的要求,优先考虑, 还有固定的目标. 请按此 看看澳门新葡新京在线对BSU要求的回应,以及我们对确保我们是一所安全公正的学校的承诺.
我们的BSU和社区-早上好. 一周前在大会上, 我分享了, 和其他一些管理员一起, 我收到了一封信,上面写着 黑人学生会的要求清单. 我要回到我们的大会空间来回复那封信,因为我相信我们彼此交谈的方式很重要. We are bound together in a hard moment, trying to do critical work. We need to root ourselves in a collaborative spirit, so I want to both model 和 invite that. I know that there are stakeholders who may not be here with us here today, so I’ll also be sending the full text of this response to 三一汤普森, BSU的顾问, as well as making sure that it is sent to each of you 和 posted on the school’s social media.
As College Prep renews its commitment to centering the work of racial justice across all aspects of school life, 校园里的学生领袖精力充沛,注意力集中, 以有意义的方式吸引他们的同伴和老师. We sat down with the student leadership of the Black Student Union, Gisele S. 1922年,艾萨克·C. 21,悉尼·G. 22岁的乔伊·J. 来听听刚刚过去的这个夏天发生的事情和他们在澳门新葡新京在线的个人经历是如何塑造他们作为领导者的观点的.
From exp和ed comm团结 outreach efforts to creating new admissions events designed to reach more BIPOC families, 招生办公室正在积极接受澳门新葡新京在线正在进行的战略公平和包容工作. 继续读下去,听听Evie Koh是如何做到的, 招生主任, 描述正在进行的激动人心的变化和计划.
LifePrep项目今年经历了一些重大变化. By partnering with a local experiential education 和 equity 和 inclusion program, 马赛克工程, 新设计的课程旨在为学生创造一个发展文化能力和反压迫工作的基本技能的空间. 三一汤普森, 体验式和社区学习主任, describes the program changes 和 what the School has planned for the future of LifePrep.