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MUFSD Equity in Education Multi-Year Strategic Plan

Presented by the District Equity Team

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District Equity Team: Our “Why”

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Mamaroneck School District Equity Team

District Equity Team Advisory Committee Members�April Francis (HMX), Team Facilitator�Robert Shaps (Supt.)�Anne Ward (Asst. Sup.)�Cecilia Anon (Districtwide)�Marsha Genwright (MHS)�Venessa Green-Davis (HMX)�Kimberly Omoloju (MHS)�Matt Porricelli (Murray)�Judy Ravina (Dir./MAS)�Claire Reinhard (Dir.)�Jenny Rodriguez (MHS)�Zoe Ruiz (MHS)�Lauren Scharfstein (Chat)�Aaron Shansky (MHS)�Sarah Silverman (MHS)�Leon Whyte (HMX)��

Additional District Equity Team Members�Maria Albano (HMX)�Neill Alleva (MAS�Rob Andrews (HMX) �Adonis Calderon (HMX)�Alexandra Casabona (Districtwide)�Gregory Cuddy (MHS)�Gladys DiVito (BOE)�Laura Fojanesi Rusconi (MHS)�Jacqueline Fonseca Elias (Cent)�Lissi Garcia (Districtwide)�Suehay Gonzalez Alicea(Cent)�Elizabeth Lelo de Larrea (Districtwide)�Dina Madden (Coor. Districtwide)�Debbie Manetta (Dir. Districtwide)�Lavina Marchis (MAS)��

Ashley Martinez (MHS) �Nora Mazzone (Asst. Supt.)�Daneen Payne (HMX)�Lilia Ramos Dries (MHS)�Keila Reyes Nunez (HMX)�Dina Reynosa (MAS)�Gloria Rodriguez (Chat)�Karen Ruzzo (Cent)�Jennifer Solomon (Chat)�Storey Trush (MHS) �Sadrine Utzinger (Chat) �Community Counseling Center - Leslie Pena Sullivan

Community Resource Center - Marco Bohorquez

Padre Unidos - Glenda Colon�Radar - Janet Buchbinder

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What was our process to develop an action oriented and sustaining Equity Team?

Planning and Preparing

February 2020-May 2020

The newly formed District Equity Team held their first informational and preparation session. Due to the pandemic, further scheduled meetings were postponed.

Reviewing and Brainstorming

December 2019

Our PATHS committee, a district-community partnership, met and decided to amend their goals and purpose and developed the District Equity Team

Developing Understandings

Summer 2019-Fall 2019

Our district participated in professional development around the 4 Principles of the NYSED CR-S Framework and building our racial literacy

June 2020-August 2020

The District Equity Team reconvened and participated in strategic planning professional develop. An advisory group was formed to develop the MUFSD Equity Plan.

Action Steps

April

What was our process? Our process began with grounding our stakeholders- education leaders, teachers, assistants, staff, adn families on equity and culturally responsive concepts. This had been done overtime, yet, in the summer of 2019, we began to unify and solidify the work across the district. As you can see on this time, Phase one was to develop understandings around the NYSED CR-S Framework, in our next phase (Decemeber 2019), instead of creating a new district team, we held a brainstorm session with our PATHS district-community committee and discussed shifting the goals and focus to equity for all- our BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) population, our LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexuall, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) Plus community, and any other historically marginalized group. The decision was made to pivot as a group and invite various staff to join the newly forming District Equity Team. In february 2020, our 3rd phase, we held an informational with the old and new committee members, planning and preparing goals and outcomes of the. During this phase, we unfortunately had to postpone our next steps due to the pandemic. Yet, in June 2020, when our society/world saw social unrest, and members and alumni of our community demanded change, we knew the best way to begin addressing this need, was to reassemble our District Equity Team. As per the timeline, between June and August our 40 member team met and devised the MamK Equity in Education Policy and Strategic Plan.

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NYSED Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework 4 Principles:

Creating Welcoming and Affirming Environments
Ensuring High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction for All Students
Inclusive Curriculum and Assessment
Ongoing Professional Development

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Building Racial Literacy

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Understanding Culture, Identity, and Bias

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Bold Moves for Change

Overview of the District Equity in Education multi-year plan:

Introduction from the Board of Education
The DET Mission Statement and three Priority Areas
Goals and potential outcomes of each priority area
A draft multi-year SMART goal oriented strategic plan

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The mission of the Mamaroneck District Equity Team is to identify, acknowledge, and dismantle the systemic barriers that prevent equity and access for all students by creating and implementing a sustaining plan for equitable opportunities and outcomes for all.

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Achieving Equity and Access for All Students...

Dismantle...and Rebuild

Acknowledging and identifying equity issues, without taking the bold steps necessary to dismantle systemic barriers is simply cosmetic.

Elevate marginalized voices
Empower students to be agents of change
Hold one another accountable for creating educational experiences that reflect culturally responsive standards

Acknowledge

Racism, bias, oppression, privilege - it all exists in our system - we know it exists because:

Our students have told us
Our lived experiences have told us
Our community members have told us

The work of this team will include helping those who don’t see it, to acknowledge its existence

Identify

Acknowledgement is the first step - but then we have to listen to the collective voices to identify where specifically our system is flawed.

Curriculum
Communication
Hiring practices
District Policies
Neighborhood schools model

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...by creating and implementing a sustaining plan for equitable opportunities and outcomes for all

Policy Change

At its foundation, the mission is rooted in policy change. We know that people generally hesitate to change that which they benefit from; personal change comes from a reckoning within one’s self.

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Educate Ourselves

We must develop an awareness/educate ourselves so that we can best serve those under our care.

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Educate Others

We must collectively address implicit biases woven into our systems that marginalize entire sects of people.

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Guiding Principles of the Mission Statement

It was essential that as we crafted the DET mission statement, it made clear our commitment and belief that:

These aren’t radical beliefs - this is humanity.

This document is a reflection of the lived experiences of the District Equity Team members, their students, colleagues, and community members. Its contents aren’t speculative or generalized - they are true. �
This document is also a reflection of the many privileges that we hold. For those of us with privilege (be it white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege, financial privilege, or any other advantage), we believe that it is our responsibility to use that power to name and dismantle injustice and inequity wherever we see it.

When our teachers, many of whom are already living this equity plan in their classrooms, act with courage, we will be there to support and defend them.

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District Equity Team: Our “Why”

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Developing inclusive and anti-racist curriculum, instruction, and assessment K-12 �
Strengthening and creating opportunities, access, and educational quality for all students in our diverse community �
Prioritizing student and community input to dismantle inequitable policies and reframe for equity

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Priority Areas

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How is the draft version of the Strategic Plan organized?

A goal from one of the priority areas is selected

Next, steps to implement this goal are clearly outlined, including stakeholders, a timeline, collaborators, and a check-in/evaluation

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Urgency: Equity in Remote/Hybrid Learning

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Next Steps: What Lies Ahead�

�District Equity Team Presentation posted on website�� October: Forums for ongoing community/student/faculty discussions on the plan��DET to hold scheduled meetings throughout school year

Periodic progress monitoring/community updates