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Since its founding in 1982, Â鶹´«Ă˝ has been a school that values inclusion, understanding, and diversity. We are committed to building a community that values and embraces diversity, including culture, race, ethnicity, family structure, gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion, and socio-economic status. 

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We create intentional structures in our curriculum and school culture that foster multiculturalism, multiple perspectives, and equity and justice. We affirm both our commonalities and our differences, engage in open dialogue, and strive to balance individuality and community. We actively seek students, faculty, families and staff from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Embracing diversity and inclusiveness makes us a stronger and wiser community.

 

In alignment with these enduring values, our students utilize resources from Learning For Justice as a basis for integrated anti-racist and anti-bias education. Following this framework, we focus on four standards:

• Identity: The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a person is definitively recognized or known and the set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.

• Diversity: The condition of having or being composed of different elements; variety, especially the inclusion of different types of people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization.

• Justice: A combination of fairness and opportunity; in a just society or group, people have the same rights and are not punished more because of who they are.

• Action: Action includes taking steps to honor and celebrate identity and diversity, as well as taking steps to bring about justice.