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E.D.I.A. education
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility for Educators
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Hello everyone,
My school has just recently been engaging in these conversations about EDIA; it is actuallly being framed as DEIJ - Diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. We have had a guest speaker come and present to the whole school, to divisions (lower school, upper school, the Board of Directors, and administrators) and also, to our working committee. The committee is focused on creating EDIA policies that will be embedded into school documentation. There policies will be beneficial for the hiring process as well as for safeguarding current staff and students.
I have many questions but here are two of them:
- With so many stakeholders in a school, how can we get buy-in from staff and administrators about the importance of EDIA work?
- We have a Board of Directors including some members who are right-wing, traditional, pro hetero, nuclear families etc… When educators find themselves up against roadblocks such as this, how can we feel empowered that we are making a difference?
Looking forward to learning from this forum and this website!
Thank you,
BMan