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As a Catholic community, St. Joan of Arc commits to developing and strengthening equitable and cultural awareness practices by elevating equal voices in the decision making process, normalizing race conversations, seeking candidates to diversity our staff, and empowering students, teachers, and families to constantly seek positive changes in society that recognize and value each person's dignity as a human being created in the image of God.
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Teacher/Staff Recruitment Support
- Assists in assuring that SJOA School develops and maintains a diverse staff
- Helps with finding candidates from diverse racial cultural backgrounds to coach, substitute teach, and volunteer
- Keeps the RJA and admin up to date on diverse talent to add to St. Joan of Arc’s wonderful staff by sharing resumes, marketing job opportunities, etc.
- Supports relevant PD for teachers and staff including ongoing cultural competency
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Community Engagement
- Plans and coordinates events, including free events, for the RJA and SJOA community to engage in
- Host social events including a welcome for new families, especially families of color, interactive art activities and performances, holiday celebrations, family dances, game nights and movie screenings, poetry readings, ice cream socials, workshops, civic opportunities, multicultural potlucks. Events can occur within school grounds or out in the community
- Collaborates with the School Commission, Parish Council and the PTO to provide events including “coffee hours.”
- Black and multicultural student union
- Collaborates to fundraise
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Parent/ Teacher Resources
- Maintains a physical and virtual library of accessible, developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive resources to help parents facilitate conversations and deepen understanding regarding racial justice
- Hosts book clubs that can meet live and/or virtually
- Offers workshops and trainings
- Collaborates to support purchase of resources
- Helps compile a list of black and other minority owned businesses to support through field trips, guest speeches, etc.
- Helps develop a set of resources from a variety of multicultural perspectives for teachers to use within their classrooms
- Collaborates to support purchase of resources
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Student Resources
- Formation of a Black and multicultural student union (this falls under the Community Engagement subcommittee, as well)
- Host reading groups with students
- Provide recess/lunch duty opportunities
- Integrate social justice projects into existing school-wide enrichment periods
- Identify faith-based social justice service learning opportunities and curriculum resources
- Explore opportunities for after school enrichment, including peer mentoring and tutoring
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Teacher and Staff Professional Development
- All teachers and staff participated in the Cultural Competency in the Classroom training, part 1 and will attend part 2 in January
- Several SJOA staff members have participated in the 2-day Undoing Racism training in the last several years
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